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creatives anywhere and everywhere. founded
2025. 

for writers previously unheard. free from institutional confines. open to any age, gender, sexuality, race, religion. or if you conform to none of the above. heavy focus on the support and uplifting of BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, women, differing able bodied statuses, and other marginalized voices. your story deserves to be told and your voices needs to be heard! if you need something on a rainy summer day, or a cicada filled afternoon. palette !

the first theme of palette’s inaugural issue is love and warmth. issue one out now!

submissions are now open for issue two: nostalgia !!

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<div>hi beautiful people !! we're glad that you're here :) below are all of the submission guidelines for issue two of palette - the nostalgia issue !!</div><div><br></div><div>**NOTE! while there are no explicit restrictions on who can submit, we strongly encourage and support the submissions of BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, those of varying able bodied statuses, women, and any/every marginalized voice!!**</div>
submissions open until june 19, 2026 (or until we receive an overwhelming amount of submissions).

theme: nostalgia (but what does that mean?)

think about a time in your life that you last felt bliss !! could be related to a specific place, a memory, love, or something magical :)

nostalgia can be defined as a want for a time in the past, whether twenty years in the past or just a few seconds ago. a time you have lived or have yet to !! get creative and funky with it !!

here the submission by submission specific guidelines:

prose 🐌
no more than 15 pages, double spaced. MLA format (times new roman preferred) (( we're sorry to alternative font fans out there :/ )).
no more than two prose submissions per writer.
poetry 🌀
no more than 10 pages, double spaced. 
no more than three poems per poet.
art 🎨
no larger than 1 GB. 
no more than three pieces per artist.
note for art peeps: if art is a video or audio file, and is accepted to palette literary magazine, it will likely take the form of a raw playable / viewable file for our digital release or a QR code if released physically.
this is all art. submit your music if you want. submit your short film. submit your screenplay. yeah!

palette literary magazine WILL NOT accept AI generated work. palette literary magazine WILL NOT accept work not following submission guidelines. palette literary magazine WILL NOT accept work previously published elsewhere. palette literary magazine WILL NOT accept work promoting or condoning the hate of other individuals or a group of individuals based on any number of their intersectional backgrounds. be kind !!

we love you all! thank you for being here. :) 🌟 

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