Submissions

We here at "Heart of the World" ask that submissions be submitted online due to our magazine's international, multilingual nature. This ensures a smooth, faster process for both submitters and ourselves, and is generally easier for all parties involved. Below you will find the submission guidelines for each field that we are currently publishing. If, for any reason, you would like to submit something that doesn't fit into any of the guidelines below, contact us by email and we'll confirm whether or not we are able to review your submission for publication. We do ask that submitters try to follow the guidelines of our Call for Submission, listed below, and that you use your creativity to work with the theme of each issue.

We are also paying submitters for any works that we will publish, and we want to stress that there are no fees for submitting, nor will there ever be any fees for submitting. We here at Heart of the World know how difficult it can be for people to either begin their creative careers or to keep it going, and we look to encourage this sort of activity by providing incentive in pursuing one's goals as an artist and author. We do, however, pay based per submission, and will contact you with the amount we will give you once your piece has been selected for publication.

If you are interested in submitting to us but we do not have your native language present yet in the digital or on the website, by all means, submit anyway! As we get more and more submissions in various languages, so too will we begin to expand our magazine's scope and the staff involved. You may be the person who brings Heart of the World Magazine into new places!

Short Creative Fiction

Submissions for Short Creative Fiction include short stories, flash fiction, poetry, song lyrics, and episodic pieces meant to be published as a series. Submissions should be done in:

Times New Roman, Cambria, Calibri, or Arial Font
Double spacing (2.0)
Title included in the piece
Author's name
No longer than 5,000 words
.doc, .docx, .rtf, or .txt file formats

For Poetry and Flash Fiction submissions, please submit no more than 5 pages of either. You may, however, submit 5 pages of poetry and 5 pages of Flash Fiction.

Submit Short Creative Fiction

Short Creative Non-Fiction

Submissions for Short Creative Non-Fiction include travel writing, memoirs, interviews, essays, opinion pieces, journals, diary entries, journalism, and the like. Submissions should be done in:

Times New Roman, Cambria, Calibri, or Arial Font
Double spacing (2.0)
Title included in the piece
Author / Interviewer and Interviewee should be named at the top of the first page
No longer than 5,000 words
.doc, .docx, .rtf, or .txt file formats
For articles and essays, Citations and Sources will count toward the 5,000 word count

For any submission that deals with interviews, we do ask that you provide some form of agreement from the person who has been interviewed that they are okay with having the interview published.

Submit Short Creative Non-Fiction

Pictorial Art

Other

Submissions should be sent as high quality scans. These include paintings, photographs, comics, illustrations, costume designs, and any artwork that is pictorial in nature. We also include photographs of street art and the like. Submissions should:

Be done in .png, .jpg., .tiff, or .pdf
Artist's full name included in the email
A brief description of the work by the artist

Please submit no more than 10 pieces for review. For submissions that are a part of a series and thus longer in nature, please state the intention to publish this further as a series so that we may consider this when reviewing your submission.

For comics, please consider a maximum number of 25 pages per submission. When submitting comics of this length, we do ask that artists limit their submissions to once per issue.

Submit Pictorial Art

or submissions that don't quite fit the previous fields, such as book reviews or research papers and academic texts, please follow the guidelines for the Short Creative Non-fiction submissions:

Times New Roman, Cambria, Calibri, or Arial Font
Double spacing (2.0)
Title included in the piece
No longer than 5,000 words
.doc, .docx, .rtf, or .txt file formats
For articles and essays, Citations and Sources will count toward the 5,000 word count

Please include all necessary information for book reviews relevant to publishers and authors. For academic work, include your home university and other pertinent information. For everything else, please include a brief description of what you are submitting, and do keep in mind that it needs to be formatted in such a way as to be presentable in a magazine.

Submit Other

Film and Music

Submissions that are films or videos of various lengths should be sent as .mp4 files with a description concerning the content of the submission, genre of the submission, the length of the video, language (if applicable), film locations, credit information (actors, directors, studio and all necessary legal information and permissions), relevant websites related to either the film or the people involved with the team, and any other relevant information deemed necessary by the submitter.

Submissions for music of various lengths should be sent as .mp3 files with a description of the genre, credit for all artists involved in the making of the music piece as well as what their role was, length of the piece, language (if applicable), and any relevant legal information or permissions.

We ask that each person or group of people submitting a film piece limit themselves to 1 film submission, and each person or group of people submitting a music piece submit a maximum of 3 music pieces.

Submit Film or Music

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