General Submission Guidelines

• The Pine Cone Review is a no-fee, no-pay market. There are no submission fees. There is no monetary payment upon publication. We promise to spread the word of your published work(s) through social handles.

• We are looking for PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED works. Publications in social media and/or in your personal blog/website are considered published.

• NO SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS PLEASE. We read each submission with care and devote time to it. Since we are a tiny team of volunteer editors, withdrawing a submission midway implies a waste of our limited resources.

• Response time: 20 days after the submission window closes

• FORMATTING:

  • Please use Times New Roman or Garamond, 12 pt. font size

  • Number of submissions: 1-3 pieces

  • Word limit for general submissions: Not more than 600 words

  • Word limit for IDEATE and WINGED SEEDS: Not more than 10 pages in total.

  • Document file format: .doc or .docx

  • Visual art file format: .jpg or .png, 6KB and above, minimum 1500px on the longest side

  • Please label the submitted file: LAST NAME_TITLE OF WORK

  • For TRANSLATIONS: Please share the e-mail/ letter of permission from the author/publisher of the original piece, citing your name and giving the permission for publication of translation.

  • For EXPERIMENTAL and GENRE-BENDING WORKS:

    • If it involves special formatting, please send a PDF + a .doc/.docx document

    • If it involves something that we have not mentioned here, send it to us anyway!

  • We will request photographs of contributors, social media handles and other relevant information if your work is selected for publication.

    Submissions to IDEATE

    The Pine Cone Review invites opinion pieces on any topic for publication in our IDEATE section. We are looking for serious discussions on a myriad of issues and ideas that unnerve you, encourage you, uplift you or destroy you.

    At this moment we have no word limit in mind but given the nature of being an online format, we ask that you consider sending pieces no more than 10 A4 pages in total.

    Submissions to WINGED SEEDS

    The Pine Cone Review invites reviews of books, films, chapbooks, documentaries, short films, art exhibitions and relevant others. We are looking for reviews that not only capture the narrative of a creative piece but also delve deep into its philosophy. At this moment, we have no word limit in mind, but given the nature of being an online literary journal ask that you consider sending pieces no more than 10 A4 pages in total.