Submissions

Sage Cigarettes Magazine is a hybrid literary & arts magazine that produces quarterly literary issues & publishes a series of columns, stand-alone articles, & pop culture reviews.

We exist to support & platform independent artists & creatives in various genres —writers, podcasters, readers, artists, & musicians.

We are a volunteer-run independent press. If you’d like to contribute & support our efforts, please check out our support page.

Submissions are always free. Simultaneous submissions are encouraged but please have the courtesy to let us know immediately if you get picked up elsewhere.

General submission guidelines

• Authors published with Sage Cigarettes retain all rights to their work.
• Every submission must include a short contributor bio & preferred method of contact.
• Simultaneous submissions are encouraged but please let us know ASAP if your work was accepted elsewhere.
• Previously published pieces will be considered but please be sure that that you are in the clear with any agreement made with your previous publisher & let us know who previously published the work & when.
• Please include a list of trigger warnings in the body of your email if applicable.
• Any work submitted which is found to be racist, bigoted, hateful and/or work which promotes gratuitous or sexual violence will not be published and may result in the writer being banned from submitting and from our socials.
• We will remove or reject work by any submitter or contributor we find to have plagiarized or been racist, misogynistic, homophobic, ableist or hateful in the literary community.

Current open calls

Columns — we are currently looking for regular columnists who wish to write regular pop culture review, craft, or interview columns.

Book reviews — Our book review editor, Nicole Yurcaba, is currently open to review requests & submitted reviews.

Blog content — We are looking for pop culture writing, craft essays, interviews, & reviews for our weekly blog schedule.