Interested in submitting to Iris? Here are our official submission guidelines.

Iris Literature and Arts Magazine Submission Guidelines

General:

• Submissions will be accepted through our email, jmu.irismagazine@gmail.com. 

• We accept multiple submissions per person within and across genres, but each must be submitted in separate email threads based on genre (prose, poetry, or art).

• We welcome submissions from those who have been previously published in Iris.

• We consider previously published work.

• We ask that you include any relevant content warnings. 

• We require the title of your piece, your full name, a phone number, and your JMU email with each submission.

• Iris has an anonymized evaluation process, including for submissions from members of the Iris staff, which we welcome.

• Iris does not retain publication rights, nor offer financial compensation to artists and authors.

• Iris does not accept fanwork, including fanfiction or fan art.

Prose:

• We require work to be double spaced and in Times New Roman 12 point font unless manipulation of fonts and/or spacing is important to the piece.

• We do not have a strict word count limit for prose; however, works over 5,000 words must be extraordinary.

• We will accept 3 pieces or fewer per author.

• Please submit prose pieces in separate documents per piece in a single email. 

• We will accept PDF files only.

Poetry:

• We count series or sequences of poems as 1 submission.

• We accept 5 poems or fewer per poet, totaling no more than 10 pages.

• Please submit poems in a single document in a single email.

• We will accept PDF files only.

Art:

• We require that you indicate the medium of your piece (ex. oil painting, digital print, etc).

• We require scans of art and photography; we will not accept photographs of physical pieces.

• We accept 5 art pieces or fewer.

• We accept 10 photographs or fewer.

• Please submit art and photography in separate files in a single email. 

• We accept PDF and JPEG files only.