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Writing Guidelines

We accept a wide variety of writing, including but not limited to: poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, short stories, flash fiction, and essays. 

Poetry: 

  • must be 80 lines or less
  • max 5 pieces per submission 
  • upload your work in either docx or pdf format

Creative nonfiction, fiction, short stories, flash fiction, and essays: 

  • must be 5000 words or less
  • max 3 pieces per submission 
  • upload your work in either docx or pdf format

Experimental works (anything that doesn’t fall explicitly into these categories): 

  • must be 5000 words or less 
  • max 3 pieces per submission
  • upload your work in either docx or pdf format

Art Guidelines

We accept a wide variety of art forms, including but not limited to: photography, digital art, traditional art and illustration, and mixed media. Keep in mind that for some art forms,  you may have to take a picture of your work and submit it. 

Photography, digital art, traditional art and illustration, mixed media: 

  • upload your work in the highest resolution/quality possible (pngs, jpgs, and pdfs are accepted)
  • max 10 pieces per submission 

Experimental works (anything that doesn’t fall explicitly into these categories): 

  • upload your work in the highest resolution/quality possible (pngs, jpgs, pdfs, and MP4s are accepted)
  • max 10 pieces per submission

General Guidelines

Although we prefer previously unpublished works, we do accept simultaneous submissions and work that has been published elsewhere. 

If your work has been previously published, please mention this in your submission. On a similar note, if your work is published elsewhere after appearing here, we ask that you cite Cloudy Magazine as the place of first/previous publication. We request First Serial Rights & Worldwide Rights to publish your work, and all rights revert back to you upon publication. We are currently an online publication, but we hope to distribute print issues soon. 

Please allow around two weeks for our decision on your piece(s), though we hope to get back to you much sooner than that! If we do not get back to you during this time, do not hesitate to query via email! 

If your work is accepted, we will reach out to you with further details and minor revision suggestions if applicable. Unfortunately, we are not able to pay contributors at this time, but we will promote your work in any way we can!

We reserve the right to remove any published work if we are presented with sufficient cause. Any works promoting discrimination or hate speech will result in your submission being rejected and your address blocked. 

You do not have to be in Daly City to submit to Cloudy! We accept work from anywhere in the world, as long as you’re thirteen (13) to twenty-one (21). 

How to Submit

We are currently accepting submissions through email. Visit the “Issues” page for more information on what we are looking for. 

Please email all submissions to dalycity.cloudymagazine@gmail.com. Make sure your subject headline says “ISSUE #2 SUBMISSION”. 

In the body of your email, please include the following information: 

Name (as you wish to be credited): 

Third-person bio (up to 80 words): 

Location (ex. Daly City, CA): 

Your piece(s) in the proper format stated above:

Again, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns! We will try to get back to you within 24 hours.