Submission Guidelines

Submissions are OPEN

General Submission Guidelines 

Please submit your work as an ATTACHMENT to the mosaic email address. Submit poetry and prose in .doc or .rtf format (not PDF, pages, or .docx). Submit art in.JPG format.

All written submissions must be in 12 pt font, Times New Roman.

Mosaic submissions are read anonymously: DELETE your NAME or other personal information from any attachments.

The SUBJECT LINE of your email should read Mosaic Submission: followed by the genre and number of prose/poems (i.e. Mosaic Submission: Fiction[2]).

Cover letter: When submitting, please include a cover letter in the body of your email. In your cover letter, please include:

• Your name or preferred name and pronouns -An email address (if you are a UCR student, please include both your UCR email and a secondary email we can reach you at)
• A permanent mailing address -A brief (100-150 words) bio. In your bio, feel free to include any link or social media where more of your work can be found.

If you are unfamiliar with writing a cover letter, a great example can be found here. For simplicity’s sake, you may address us as “Mosaic Editors”.

Please do not agonize over your cover letter— be brief and simple. We are mainly paying attention to your art/prose/poems.

Note: We do not accept pieces that have already been published. Simultaneous submissions are fine, so long as you notify us if they are accepted elsewhere, so they can be withdrawn from consideration.

Poetry

We accept up to FIVE poems per submission. Each poem should begin on a new page of a single document, single-spaced.

Fiction/Creative Non-fiction/Ten-Minute Plays

Please submit up to FIVE pieces no longer than 8000 words TOTAL. (This can constitute several short pieces or one long piece for an entire word count of 8000.) Submissions exceeding this word count will not be read. If submitting more than one piece, use separate attachments. Please use 1.5 spacing for prose submissions. Plays should be properly formatted.