Submissions

These dogs are beating the heat by hiding in our doghouses for the time being. Check back in November for our submission call.

We reserve first publication rights to all work accepted. Your work may be used in quotes for promotional usage with proper credit! No prior published work is accepted; however, feel free to submit any of your work published in dogyard after a year from its original publication date (with proper credit acknowledging it was first published in dogyard!) We do not accept any use of artificial intelligence. We do not charge for any submissions and cannot currently pay for accepted work. We accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if it is accepted elsewhere! We ask you that you do not submit multiple times without response. Submissions are open internationally to any writer writing primarily in English. Feel free to submit in more than one genre, but not in the same submission.

Each submission should have a cover letter! Feel free to have fun with your cover letter! We want to know about you, your dreams, your nightmares, where you've been published, and whatever in between! Feel free to attach any pictures of your pups. <3

For the obvious—do not submit work that is racist, xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic, or just overall mean-spirited. Follow each submission guideline or Maggie will chew it up and throw it out.

We plan on getting you a response within a couple of weeks, but please allow a month after the submission call ends to email asking for updates!

Ready to submit? Send up to three (3) pieces as (1) single .doc, .docx, or PDF to submissions [at] dogyardmag [dot] com listed as (GENRE_FIRSTNAME.LASTNAME.) Any submissions not fitting these guidelines will be not be read and subsequently deleted. Read through each genre's deadlines below. Please include a cover letter and a (doc, docx, or pdf) file of your work, with a confirmation it is yours.