Submission
Guidelines for Midnight Magazine and Midnight Tales
by The Editorial
Staff
Midnight Magazine / Midnight Tales
is a labor of love. No one is going to make money on this endeavor. The
best-case scenario is to cover the costs of making the magazine so that we all
have a cool place to share our work and the readers have a chance to see it.
The purpose of these guidelines isn’t to micromanage the contributors, but to
limit the "labor" part of the labor of love. The quickest way to end a cool project
like Midnight Magazine is to burn out the editorial staff by making them do the
grunt work that the contributors can and should take care of themselves.
Part I: Formatting
When submitting an article, review
or story to the magazine we ask that you please use the following guidelines.
The submission must be in a .doc or .docx format. These are the standard
formats used by Microsoft Word and free software like Open Office. Please do
not send a .txt file or any other format. It will be impossible for us to edit
the document for use in the magazine without a great deal of additional work.
Your document should be single-spaced, use the Times New Roman 11-point font, indent each paragraph with no
spaces between them. Additionally, please make sure the title of your
submission is italicized and you have your byline added. Take credit for your
work! Basically, it should look like this document you are reading. Finally,
please take the time to use spell check. It can be very time consuming to make
these changes to every article submitted so your help is appreciated.
Any art that you submit should be
sent in a format that can be modified. Obviously, we aren’t going to change
your work, but there will be times that it needs to be resized to fit the
available space. Much like the written submissions please make sure to sign
your work. Take credit for the work that you are going to put out there. That
is one of the main reasons that Midnight Magazine exists so take advantage of
it.
Failure to follow the guidelines
above will result in your work not appearing in the magazine. We don’t want
that to happen and I’m sure you don’t either. Let us all stay on the same page
and make this work.
Part II: Content
I know that we all want to write
about our favorite director or movie. But think about your audience for a
moment. The people who are going to buy and read Midnight Magazine already know
about the greatness of Dawn of the Dead and George Romero. They have already
watched all the special features of the latest release of Evil Dead and know
all the stories. Unless you worked on or have special insight into a classic
movie there isn’t anything you have to say that we all haven’t heard before.
Don’t be surprised if your submission doesn’t get printed.
Instead, you should find that
independent movie that people aren’t talking about. Or maybe that artist you like that not many people have heard of. This also goes for comics and
magazines that you want to make other fans aware of. This is what the kind of
readers that will spend their cash and time on Midnight Magazine want to see. Not
only will that appeal to them but those filmmakers, artists, and writers will very much appreciate the exposure. There is nothing quite as satisfying as
turning someone onto some movie, magazine, comic, or music you love. And you
are helping those artists out as well.
Part III: Questions
If you have any questions or
concerns about the submission guidelines please let us know. We are happy to
answer any questions that you have as well as listen to your pitch for articles
to let you know if that is something we are interested in printing. Thanks for
your patience and we hope to see you in print. To get in touch with us send an
email to midnightmagazine2017@gmail.com
