SUBMISSIONS

ANNOUNCING: Open call for submissions to Pencil Magazine Issue One (which is actually the second issue of Pencil Magazine, because the first issue was called Issue Zero), due out in Spring, 2025
The details:
- We will accept submissions by email to hello.pencil.magazine@gmail.com from December 1 - December 31, 2024
- The theme for Issue One is “Attention.”
- We were inspired to create Pencil Magazine by the observation that entire worlds can emerge from pencils, the most humble and universal of tools.
- We request: text, image, or visual text directly or indirectly about attention. Images, writing in your handwriting, or a combination of both – all created with graphite pencil. The text could be the image. The parameters are truly open-ended.
- If your project is an essay and you would like to pitch it before writing it in its entirety, please send us your pitch by December 15. Please include writing samples.
- Specs: Each double-page spread is 12″ x 9″, so you can think of the space as one area or two facing 6″ x 9″ pages. There is gutter in the middle, so try not to put crucial information down the center line. If you wish your artwork to bleed off the edges of the paper, use these dimensions for each spread: 12.25″ x 9.25″. See diagram, above, for guidance. You may download a single page diagram from here and print it out at actual size if that is helpful. Your piece could be one double-page spread, or up to three spreads.
- Make sure your name appears on your piece in graphite, on the first spread if there are more than one.
- Use any graphite pencil. No colored pencils or charcoal.
- Please use white or light-colored paper for optimal legibility.
- We prefer to include work at 100% or close to 100%, rather than reproducing larger works at a small scale.
- Published submissions will receive an honorarium. The amount will be based on the number of submissions accepted.
- Please send a photo or scan of your work to this email address from December 1 to December 31, 2024. High-resolution scans are preferable.
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Unfortunately, we won’t be able to publish all submissions. We will notify you about your submission in February, 2025. We thank you in advance for your submission to Pencil Magazine, and we hope this assignment is inspiring!
- Questions? Send an email.