Dear Contributors, Please note that we will have two open submissions periods in 2023-24.
- Sept. 1 - Oct. 1, 2023
- Feb. 1 - March 1, 2024
Thank you for being Normal!
-- Editors
The Normal School seeks original fine art, digital art, and photography to feature in our online magazine. Our goal is to celebrate visual artists and provide a space for them to get some exposure. We especially encourage submissions from Black and Indigenous artists, artists of color, artists with disabilities, artists from LGBTQIA+ communities, and voices that have been historically under-represented and minoritized in the art world.
Please limit the number of submissions to 3 maximum
Formatting:
- images should be “landscape” only
- image width should be between 1500 and 2500 pixels
- File sizes should be limited to 20 MB (but 1.5 MB or less
will have the best quality)
- Please make sure the file type for images is .jpg, .gif,
or .png only
- There is a 120 megapixel (MP) limit on resolution
- Lastly, please note that images posted on the Normal School magazine are downloadable. We cannot provide a watermark to protect against this, but we’re happy to use one provided by the artist.
We seek submissions that use more than one medium to tell a story. This includes but is not limited to comics, graphic fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, photo and video essays, spoken word pieces, and audio prose and poetry. We especially encourage submissions from Black and Indigenous writers, writers of color, writers with disabilities, writers from LGBTQIA+ communities, and voices that have been historically under-represented and minoritized in the publishing world.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but let us know immediately if the piece is accepted elsewhere. We do not accept previously published or displayed multi-media work.