The Howl is back from break!
Our team is back ready to review your submissions.
Our contest, "Turning of the Tides," is no longer taking submissions. However, we will still be taking general submissions (see guidelines below).
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The Howl Magazine, a publication of the Writing program at Western Connecticut State University, accepts original work including creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, photography, music, and all kinds of art from high school students grades nine through twelve. Written submissions are limited to 5,000 words. We will not accept any pieces of art or writing that have been published elsewhere, or that endorse racism, graphic sexual content, drug use, or prejudice of any kind. Any work that blatantly perpetuates violence or political propaganda will not be considered. We will also not accept any pieces with any amount of A.I. generation at any point in the creation process. See our Submission guidelines.
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- Open to students in the 9th-12th grade (at time of submission).
- Only submit one genre per submission. Work may not be resubmitted unless requested. Written submissions may include up to 5,000 words of fiction.
- We will accept work in .docx format, we will not accept Apple file formats. If you have something written in Google Docs, please download as .docx format.
- Note for High School Educators: No mass submissions, please! We love giving everyone a fair chance, but we have a small team. An excess of submissions all at once is tough for us. (Ex: making submitting a class-wide assignment)
- If your work is accepted, you will need to fill out our consent form for your work to be published on our website.
- If accepted, you will not receive any sort of compensation for your work.
- Work created by A.I. programs like ChatGPT or Stabled Diffusion will not be published within The Howl. Please note, we will be examining all submissions with an A.I. detector.
- We do not accept work previously published online, including social media. We will accept simultaneous submissions, but please withdraw if accepted elsewhere.
- We follow the CLMP (Community of Literary Magazines and Presses) Code of Ethics, and all submissions are reviewed by the Submissions team, the Editorial team, and faculty advisors.
- Open to students in the 9th-12th grade (at time of submission).
- Only submit one genre per submission. Work may not be resubmitted unless requested. Written submissions may include up to 5 poems.
- We will accept work in .docx format, we will not accept Apple file formats. If you have something written in Google Docs, please download as .docx format.
- Note for High School Educators: No mass submissions, please! We love giving everyone a fair chance, but we have a small team. An excess of submissions all at once is tough for us. (Ex: making submitting a class-wide assignment)
- If your work is accepted, you will need to fill out our consent form for your work to be published on our website.
- If accepted, you will not receive any sort of compensation for your work.
- Work created by A.I. programs like ChatGPT or Stabled Diffusion will not be published within The Howl. Please note, we will be examining all submissions with an A.I. detector.
- We do not accept work previously published online, including social media. We will accept simultaneous submissions, but please withdraw if accepted elsewhere.
- We follow the CLMP (Community of Literary Magazines and Presses) Code of Ethics, and all submissions are reviewed by the Submissions team, the Editorial team, and faculty advisors.
- Open to students in the 9th-12th grade (at time of submission). We publish: Nonfiction, Art, Photography, & Multimedia content.
- Video files must be 50MB or smaller.
- Written submissions may include up to 10,000 words of nonfiction.
- We will accept work in any of these file forms: .docx, .mp3, .jpeg, .png, .mp4, .wav, .mp3, .mov. We will not accept Apple file formats. If you have something written in Google Docs, please download as .docx format.
- For visual art submissions, please include the medium as well as the dimensions.
- Note for High School Educators: No mass submissions, please! We love giving everyone a fair chance, but we have a small team. An excess of submissions all at once is tough for us. (Ex: making submitting a class-wide assignment)
- If your work is accepted, you will need to fill out our consent form for your work to be published on our website.
- If accepted, you will not receive any sort of compensation for your work.
- Work created by A.I. programs like ChatGPT or Stabled Diffusion will not be published within The Howl. Please note, we will be examining all submissions with an A.I. detector.
- We do not accept work previously published online, including social media. We will accept simultaneous submissions, but please withdraw if accepted elsewhere.
- We follow the CLMP (Community of Literary Magazines and Presses) Code of Ethics, and all submissions are reviewed by the Submissions team, the Editorial team, and faculty advisors.