The Ugly Collective wants to read your joy, grief, loss, weirdness, and every other element that affects your life or the lives of people that surround you. We want you to know that as a collective of diverse writers shaped by principles and worldviews, we are not interested in works that platform racism, sexism, violence, homophobia, or any other disapproving themes.
Submission Guidelines:
All submissions must be typed in Times New Roman font, 12-point font size, single-spaced for poetry, and double spaced for fiction, nonfiction and playlets, and submitted as a docx. file
The submitted docx. file must contain your work titled, with the author bio, nationality, and email contact.
The subject of the mail should contain the issue you are submitting for, genre of your work, the title of your submission, and the author’s full name. For example, The Beginning Issue, Poetry— Origin of Grief, Ahmed Ngozi Itunu.
Your author bio should be brief and precise. Not more than 150 words. Feel free to flaunt your achievements within the word count.
Submitted documents must be titled with the submission title to enable us to identify your work without complications.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed. We will be glad if you can inform us if your submission is accepted elsewhere. We disregard already published work/works (whether published on social media, magazines, anthologies, blogs, etc.)
Any submitted works containing local or indigenous languages apart from the British or American English must be translated at the end of the document.
All works (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, playlets, and artworks etc.) are read by the members of our collective and voted upon. Any form of plagiarized work submitted to us will be frowned upon and will be automatically disregarded.
Upon publication, all rights are reserved to the author or contributor.
Below are the individual submission guidelines:
Poetry
Poetry submissions must not exceed 40 lines. Submit a single poem at a time.
Poems must be between 1- 3 poems, not more than 5 pages.
Poems must be the original work of the author, not plagiarized, and must not have been published elsewhere during the time of submission.
Poems must only be written in English (British or American). Poems containing local or indigenous languages should be translated.
Poems must be single-spaced.
Poems written in different kinds of styles and structures, exploring any theme and idea and containing distinct imagery are welcome.
Send submissions to: poetry@theuglycollective.com
Fiction
Submit only one (1) story at a time.
Your work must be original and must not have been published elsewhere.
Story must be between 1500-3000 words.
Any story that contains local or indigenous languages should be translated.
Send submissions to: fiction@theuglycollective.com
Creative Non-Fiction/Essays
Submit one piece at a time. Multiple submissions will not be accepted.
Non-fiction pieces must be between 1500-3000 words.
Must be original work and must not have been published elsewhere.
Send submissions to: nonfiction@theuglycollective.com
Artworks:
Photographs: 1—3
Painting/drawing: 1—2 images in png or jpeg
Send submissions to: artworks@theuglycollective.com
