We want to hear from you.

A bi-annual print and online magazine publishing short stories, artwork, cocktail recipes, wine reviews and more from a diverse range of emerging authors and artists worldwide. The Zine desires to platform emerging artists, bartenders, sommeliers, chefs, writers in photography, graphic design, mixed media and others modes of expression. We welcome submissions ranging from film critiques, to interview based articles or whatever else you want to experiment with.

Submissions: You can submit art, writing, and/or speech, including, but not limited to: interviews, lists, rants, comics, conversations, essays, spells, creative nonfiction, poetry, prose, fiction, photography, recipes, etc. Prompts are listed on the website.

GENERAL SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Previously published work is a-okay. Just let us know where a piece has been published before, and we’ll be sure to credit it.

  • Please title all individual pieces.

    • Please use the name of the piece–or in the case of multiple poems or art pieces, the title of the first piece–as the filename.

    • Use discretion about using the names of real people in your work.

    • If your work contains sensitive material, please include content warnings as necessary.

Visual Art Guidelines

  • We will accept art in JPEG, PNG or TIFF formats.

  • Artwork must be 300 dpi and in black and white.

  • All artwork must be at least 8.5’’ x 11’’ to fit in the book, and should fit comfortably on a page of that aspect ratio.

  • Artists may submit up to four pieces, or a comic or visual story up to four pages in length.

Written Guidelines

  • We accept submissions in DOC, DOCX, and RTF formats.

  • For poetry, up to four poems, one per page

  • For fiction and creative nonfiction, up to 5,000 words.

What you’re agreeing to upon submission and acceptance:

Writers keep all rights to their work. We ask that you refrain from posting or publishing your piece between when we accept it and when we publish it as a courtesy. We also ask that if your piece has yet to be published online or in other publication that you cite MiniBar Magazine as its original home, but you should be able to post and repost your beautiful stories and experiences as much as you want.

You may see photos of your printed work in our promotional materials. We may also ask to re-post your work on our website and our social media to showcase the kind of work we love.

We may make minor copy-editing or style alterations to the text of an accepted work (things like fixing minor punctuation, changing to house style, etc.), and the author may not see these minor changes before we publish. However, if there are larger structural edits we’d like to suggest, we would never publish those without your permission. The author may refuse to make our suggested revisions and instead withdraw the piece from consideration, but we hope we can find a happy medium. We also reserve the right to add or modify content warnings as part of our editing process.

Is there anything we’re not looking for?

  • EXTREME profanity

  • EXPLICIT sexual content

  • gratuitous violence against marginalized people

Submission Fee of $5 per submission is required. Please see details below regarding payment

Please e-mail Submissions to info@minibarmag.com