Now Accepting Submissions

Send Us Your Best!

The first issue of The Mudsill drops in just three weeks. We have some great writers lined up, and we are ready to accept submissions.

How to Submit Your Work to The Mudsill

FIRST, identify the category that best fits your piece

We pay our contributors on publication via PayPal, paying for first serial rights for 90 days.

We publish work in four categories:

Comment: political, social, or cultural commentary on current events

Context: a researched piece providing important/engaging background information on some topic of interest or controversy

Craft: creative work—fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, photography

Critique: reviews (books, movies, video games), discussions of artistic oeuvres, etc.

SECOND, prepare your draft for submission

We accept poetry/prose submissions in .docx file only. We accept photography submissions in .jpg file only.

At the top of the first page of your submission, indicate the category for which you are submitting your work. Immediately beneath that, include a title, your byline, and a word count. On the last page of your submission, include a brief (1-3 sentence) biography we can run with your piece.

For poems, you may submit up to three poems for consideration. Submit each poem on a separate page. (Note: due to formatting constraints in Substack, we are not able to publish poetry that features typographic innovations; your verse will be published with a flush-left margin)

For photographs, files should be no larger than 4 MB; you may submit up to three photographs for consideration. Submit a cover-sheet with your photographs including image titles, your credit line, and your 1-3 sentence biography.

THIRD, format your email

The email address for submissions is TheMudsill@gmail.com

The subject line of your email should consist of ONE THING and one thing only: the CATEGORY to which you are submitting your work

CONTEXT, COMMENT, CRAFT, or CRITIQUE

In the body of your email, please include a brief description (5 sentences or less) of the work you are submitting.

FOURTH, hit send!

We are ready to review submissions. How long will it take us to get back to you? WE HAVE NO IDEA! This is our first call for submissions, and we don’t know if we’ll get five pieces or five hundred pieces. But we’re ready if you are.

Let’s go!