Send us your dead doves, your blorbos, your plinkos, your wretched meow meows yearning to be free; that thing you wrote that made you think, “I don’t know where this belongs”; the stuff you’d never show anyone you know IRL. Give us your shameless, self-indulgent smut; the manuscript to the video essay you dictated to your YouTube subscribers in your head; your thoughtful explorations of trauma and identity; your Pepe Silvia wall; your sci-fi, your fantasy, your romance, your realism. We want anything and everything. As long as you identify as a fan, we want to read your work.

We are currently looking for

• Short fiction (only 1 piece at a time, max 15k words; if flash [under 1k], you may submit up to 5 pieces in one document)
• Nonfiction (personal essays, articles, or meta, max 15k words)

Guidelines

• Your work cannot be published or posted anywhere else. If you’ve posted a work on any social platform, even if you take it down, for legal reasons, we cannot accept it. This means you can’t delete a work from AO3 and file off the serial numbers to send to us.
• Your work must stand on its own as an original piece, although we of course welcome common fanfiction tropes (or the subversion thereof), and works that feel fanfiction-y but contain original characters and worlds. Again, legal reasons.
• You must include some information about your relationship to fandom in your cover letter. This is a magazine for publishing the original work of fans. If you don't identify as a fan, we can't accept your work.
• We don't need content warnings, but if you'd prefer to offer them, you can do so in the cover letter.
• Unfortunately, we won’t be able to accept all work or reply personally to all submissions.
• Submit only once per issue. If your work has been accepted in a previous issue, please wait at least a year before submitting again.
• We welcome simultaneous submissions. This means you’re free to submit to other magazines, but please withdraw your piece as soon as possible if your work gets accepted elsewhere.
• We take first North American serial rights. This means we can’t accept work that has been previously published in any way.
• You must be 18 or older to submit.
• We are able to offer our contributors a small honorarium in USD and a free copy of the issue.

If you have questions or would like clarification on any of the above, email oficmagazine@gmail.com or send us an ask.