Guernica is in a period of transition, and the magazine is not accepting new submissions at this time. We will endeavor to respond to prior submissions as quickly as possible.
Before submitting, please review the general guidelines at the top of this page.
This form is for journalism/reportage, essays, memoir, criticism, and argument of 2,500 words or more. Please send the full manuscript of an original prose work you would like us to consider.
If yours is a piece of journalism/reportage, please add REPORTAGE to the subject line.
As a reminder, we do not accept pitches, interviews, or book reviews, although we welcome longform critical essays that engage several texts/ideas in a single piece.
Before submitting, please review the general guidelines at the top of this page.
This form is for fiction submissions, which should be no fewer than 2,000 and no more than 7,000 words. Please submit only one story, or one excerpt from an unpublished novel, at a time. Works in translation are especially welcome as long as you can convey the rights to publish the piece.
We do not consider flash fiction; submissions sent in hard copy or via email; and or serialized longer works.
We do not accept pitches. Please submit the full manuscript you’d like us to wor with. All interviews must contain an introduction (check our Interviews archive for examples). If your interview emphasizes anywhere how lucky you were to get time with your subject, your subject’s generosity in sitting down with you, or otherwise sycophantic feints, we are less likely to run it. Please allow eight weeks before querying about the status of your submission.
Guernica publishes art-related writing that engages with a wide range of timely critical, cultural and political issues. We promote perspectives that demonstrate an international outlook and a strong commitment to examining art’s interaction with the world at large.
We prefer full-length, previously unpublished submissions between 500 and 2,500 words. Only highly original, innovative and well-considered pitches are considered.
Please note that we do not accept academic essays, book or exhibition reviews.
Art and Film Submissions
Video submissions should be less than 8 minutes in length and permanently accessible on a third party hosting site such as YouTube or Vimeo. Please send a link to no more than one work.
Artist and project profiles can take the form studio visits, portfolio views, and short interviews. Please send no more than 10-15 images along with a 150-word description of the project submitted for publication.