Carmina Magazine accepts submissions year-round and is released twice a year in March and September.
We are looking for creative pieces inspired by mythology: epic-style poems, modern versions of ancient tales, stories and poems that re-imagine mythological people and places, retellings, reworkings, and rewritings of old fairy tales, folk tales, fables, and anything and everything in-between. The mythology of all backgrounds, cultures, and time periods is welcome here, as are all genres and creative forms. We accept poetry, prose, art, photography, and more, really anything that we can publish on a page. Our only main "requirement" is that the work owes some seed of inspiration to a mythological tradition.
Submission Guidelines
We prefer stories under 5,000 words and poems under 200 lines. Any and all kinds of visual media are welcome. Again, our only main requirement is that it involves, invokes, or is inspired by mythology in some way. We are always looking for original art and photography to add beauty and color throughout our issues.
Multiple submissions are encouraged. Send up to 3 short stories, 5 poems, or 10 art/photography pieces per submission. You can send multiple attachments or one single large attachment, whichever is better for you. Please use standard formatting: one-inch margins, size 12 font (Times New Roman, Arial, Calibri, Garamond, or something else that's easily legible), double-spaced for prose and single-spaced for poetry. Please submit written work in .doc/.docx format and images as .JPG/.JPEG/.PNG files. Important: please do not include your name anywhere on your submission documents. Submissions are read blind in batches, and as such, submissions with the contributor's name anywhere on them will be automatically rejected.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, please just tell us in your email that you are submitting elsewhere and inform us immediately if the work is accepted before we respond. Reprints are also fine, as long as you have permission to republish your work. If you submit reprints to us, we are going to assume in good faith that this is the case. We will immediately remove your work from our website if we find out otherwise. We currently cannot offer payment for accepted works, but we do nominate contributors annually for Rhysling and other SFPA awards.
Send submissions, questions, comments, and anything else to carminamagazine [at] gmail [dot] com. We aim to respond to all submissions in 10 weeks or sooner.
Guidelines last updated on 8/20/25.