Submitting to Oklahoma Pagan Quarterly
As the name suggests, submissions to Oklahoma Pagan Quarterly have a quarterly window.
Deadline is February 15th for Submissions for Spring Quarter (Ostara and Beltane)
Deadline is May 15th for Submissions for Summer Quarter (Litha and Lugnhasadh)
Deadline is August 15th for Submission for Autumn Quarter (Mabon and Samhain)
Deadline is November 15th for Submission for Winter Quarter (Yule and Imbolc)
General Submissions Guidelines:
Please send your submission in an email where the subject line is Submission: Title, where Title is the name of your article or piece, to [email protected]. Note that our submissions can often become backed up due to the number of people on staff, so please allow up to four weeks for us to respond. If queries or submissions have been unanswered after six weeks, please send us an email with ‘QUERY’ in the subject line.
Please indicate which prospective issue your piece is being submitted for.
What We Are Looking For:
Oklahoma Pagan Quarterly is looking for fiction and non-fiction submissions for our quarterly publication. OPQ is a quarterly magazine dedicated to folk religion, spirituality, and paganism of all paths and stripes. Whether your article is over Witchcraft, Fey Work, Reiki, Heathenry, or other equally important paths, we would love to feature the independent voices of our community. Though we are located in Oklahoma and as a result are focused on our local community, we also want to hear from those in other states, locations, and countries.
Part of the appeal of Paganism and other nontraditional paths is the diversity of thought and culture inherent in our worship and way of life. To that end, we will not accept work that is derogatory, violent, or condemnatory of other ways, walks, or paths in life. We will not judge submissions based on the client’s gender, gender identity, religion, age, spirituality, ethnicity, race, veteran status, country of origin, or other protected class. We prefer to focus on uplifting, positive articles that focus on spirituality as a tool for enlightenment, for whatever enlightenment means to the individual pathworker.
Non-fiction Guidelines:
We are looking for articles on specific beliefs, paths, or other. Maximum non-fiction article size is 4,000 words, tops. You can submit either finished articles or query us about article ideas, though we would prefer you send the whole thing up front. Endless back and forth queries are unlikely to be answered.
Please attach a small bio (a paragraph or three, 500 words, tops) detailing your publishing history, your writing credentials, your knowledge on the subject, etc.
Contributors, upon acceptance, will receive a single contributor’s copy (digital or print) for payment. Note that at this time Oklahoma Pagan Quarterly is unable to pay contributors, however, we are looking to change this at a future date.
Fiction Guidelines:
We are accepting poetry and prose in fiction, both fantastic and literary. We would prefer more spiritual-based fiction, which focuses on one’s relation to the Unknown, the Divine, etc. However, we all love a good period piece. Sword and Sorcery or Sci-fi, we want fiction that makes us think outside of ourselves.
Please attach a small bio (a paragraph or three, 500 words, tops) detailing your publishing history, your writing credentials, your knowledge on the subject, etc.
Though we don’t want to have a hard line, we have to: Poetry is restricted to 2500 words and Fiction to a maximum of 10,000 words. A little above or below is fine. Please query for pieces that you feel fit the theme that exceed this word count.
Contributors, upon acceptance, will receive a single contributor’s copy (digital or print) for payment. Note that at this time Oklahoma Pagan Quarterly is unable to pay contributors outside of ad space and contributor copies, however, we are looking to change this at a future date.
Art Guidelines:
We love art in every form. Unfortunately there are some minor restrictions we must impose for each issue. Each issue of OPQ has a seasonal theme for its cover. We invite artists to submit their original, non-licensed black and white, theme-appropriate art for print in our magazine. (Unfortunately we are not able to publish fan art, as that falls outside of copyright.) Please ensure that your art submission, cover or otherwise, falls under the following guidelines:
Cover Art can be black and white or color, though we prefer color for our covers.
Interior Art must be black and white at this time, though we have plans on changing this in the future.
We accept: Character studies, scenes, doodles, cartoons, and even some single-page comics. If you have art you’d like showcased please submit it.
Contributors, upon acceptance, will receive a single contributor’s copy (digital or print) for payment. Note that at this time Oklahoma Pagan Quarterly is unable to pay contributors except in the form of advertising in-magazine and via contributor’s copies.
