The Linnet's Wings welcomes submissions of literature, art, photography and music throughout the year. Our Contributor Room brings submission guidelines, draft submissions, submitted work and editorial contact together in one place. General submissions are always welcome and do not need to be connected to one of our seasonal or themed calls. Please read the Submission Guidelines before sending work. When submitting, use the notes field to tell us anything useful about the work, including whether it is intended for a particular issue or theme.

General Submissions

If your work is not intended for one of the themed calls below, simply submit it through the Contributor Room as a general submission. We welcome poetry, fiction, flash and micro fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, translations, art, photography and other work suitable for The Linnet's Wings.

For our Halloween magazine, we're looking for work that moves through the darker corners of the imagination: hauntings and old houses, folklore and superstition, strange encounters, uneasy landscapes, transformations, absences, memories that refuse to remain buried — and the things we glimpse only when the light begins to fail. We welcome poetry, fiction, flash and micro fiction, creative non-fiction, art and photography. Gothic, unsettling, mysterious, playful or quietly uncanny are all welcome. The work does not have to frighten us; sometimes the most haunting thing is simply what cannot quite be explained. Send us something that leaves the door slightly open. Please add Halloween to your submission notes.

Christmas has its own music: bells and voices, remembered rooms, winter streets, candlelight, kitchens, journeys home — and the silences that gather around them. For A Christmas Canzonette, we invite poetry, short prose, flash fiction, memories, art and photography inspired by Christmas and the winter season. We're interested in celebration and wonder, but also in distance, longing, humour, family, solitude, tradition, faith, change and the small human moments that survive beneath all the ceremony. It may be bright or melancholy, sacred or everyday, traditional or unexpected. Give us a small piece of winter that sings. Please add Christmas Canzonette to your submission notes.