Open Minds Quarterly
Literary Magazine
A literary journal that features explorations of life in a mad world. More specifically, it welcomes writing and art from people with lived experience of what is variously called mental health challenges, mental illness, madness, neurodiversity.
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Highlights
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- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 2 months*/Editor reported data99 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: / 4.58%*Chill Subs tracker stats
PaysCA$25
Find more details in the Genres section
FeeNo
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction - 3000 words max
Max words: 3000
Max pieces: 1
Sub Genres: Literary
Payment: CA$ 25
Nonfiction - 3000 words max
Max words: 3000
Max pieces: 1
Payment: CA$ 25
Poetry
Max lines: 96
Max pieces: 4
Payment: CA$ 25
Hybrid
Max words: 3000
Max pieces: 1
Payment: CA$ 25
Art
Max pieces: 4
Payment: CA$ 25
Photography
Max pieces: 4
Payment: CA$ 25
Wtf is genre, send anything
Payment: CA$ 25
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
Do NOT put your name, address, email, a cover letter, or any other identification within the file you submit to us. Our assistant editors conduct blind reviews to ensure fairness. Any submissions that contain identifying information will be declined.
Eligibility
Creators w/ disabilities
Formatting
Please provide high resolution (300 dpi) files for artwork.
Author's rights
If your submission is accepted for publication in OMQ, we will ask you to grant us one-time, non-exclusive serial and/or electronic publication rights to your work. That means we’re asking for permission to publish your work once, in the print (serial) and/or future online (electronic) editions of OMQ, but you retain ownership of your work and can freely submit it for publication elsewhere.
Additional info
We strive to promote these voices and perspectives by publishing work based on first-hand lived experience. Payment/copies. Contributors published in OMQ will receive a print copy of the issue they are published in and an honorarium (currently $25 CAD). This payment is subject to change.
Tracker statistics
69
Total submissions tracked
99 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
76 days
Fastest response time
211 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 231 days
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About
OMQ is published by NISA/Northern Initiative for Social Action, a member-driven, peer-support mental health organization built on the premise that people with mental health challenges are intelligent, creative, and valuable. Both NISA and OMQ operate out of Sudbury, Ontario, in what is currently cal...
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Country
CA
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Sabine Gorecki
Editor-in-Chief