The Philippines Graphic welcomes and accepts short story and poetry contributions to its literary magazine, the Philippines Graphic Reader. Submit to Philippines Graphic now. Here are the submission guidelines.
Email and submit all contributions to any of these two email addresses:
GraphicLitRevival2022@gmail.com and marrareader@duck.com
Original, unpublished contributions / submissions must be submitted in a Word file, 12 points, Times New Roman, to avoid errors in encoding or retyping.
No word count or line count is specified, so long as it could remain categorized as a short story or poetry.
No specific theme as well, but we highly encourage our contributors to read the previous works published in the Philippines Graphic Reader to know what we publish.
Submission/submissions should be accompanied by the following:
- author’s name
- age
- email address
- mobile phone number
- best close-up, black-and-white photo and
- three-sentence bionote
The Philippines Graphic Reader reserves all rights related to editorial selection and publication of literary pieces on its pages.
Once a work by an author gets published in the Philippines Graphic Reader, there is a minimum of 3 months waiting time before another work by the author can get published, if accepted.
We accept simultaneous submissions. However, if a work gets accepted in another publication before it gets published in the Philippines Graphic Reader, the entry becomes ineligible for publication. We require that the author email us or inform us right away that the work is already accepted or published in another publication of any kind. Works that appeared in any other publication will be disqualified.
All writers whose fiction stories and poetry are published in the literary magazine, including the winners of the Nick Joaquin Literary Awards (NJLA), agree to have their works published in anthologies designed and spearheaded by the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Philippines Graphic and the Philippines Graphic Literary Editor. Rights over the works remain with the author.
Employees and consultants of the Philippines Graphic and the Philippines Graphic Reader, including their relatives up to the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, are disqualified from submitting their short stories and/or poems to the Philippines Graphic Reader.
ON GENERATIVE A.I. WRITING:
In line with our commitment to uphold literature, the spirit and nature of writing, and the integrity of the publication and of the craft, we DO NOT accept any writing made in part, in whole, or in any way with generative artificial intelligence tools such as the following but not limited to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Deepseek, Copy.ai, and Paperpal, among many other large-language models (LLM) or any artificial intelligence. Any author found to have submitted such work is permanently banned from submitting to the Philippines Graphic and Philippines Graphic Reader.
The Philippines Graphic upholds the value and essence of writing, of thinking and of being a human being. We strongly require our contributors to be human, to act human, and to write as a human being. Artificial intelligence may be of great help to all the other fields, but it has no place in the creative field. The creative field is creative because it is a human being looking for answers and for ways to answer or critique the human condition. We strongly urge our contributors to veer away from the use of artificial intelligence in creating their work.
We wrote masterpieces before AI. Let us celebrate our humanness by being human and writing as one.
