Turn the Tide! Submit your prose here (flash fiction or creative non-fiction).

The staff of The Howl welcomes all high school students to submit to our second contest! Our theme is “Turning of the Tides.” Literal or figurative, send us some turbulent art. We will select one winner from each of the following categories (three winners total): 

– Prose, flash fiction or creative non-fiction (1,000 words or less)         

– Poetry (limit of one poem)         

– Visual Art (hand done, digital, photography, collage, etc.) 

REQUIREMENTS: 

• For prose, please format your document in 12-point Times News Roman, doubled-space, and put the title of the piece on the first page of the document itself.
• Submitters must be high-school students (ages 14-18) and must include a third-person bio with their submission (including your name, age, and a little bit about yourself). 
• Any contest winners who are under 18 will need to have a permission slip signed by a parent or guardian before work gets posted. 
• Work must be original (no A.I. usage of any kind) and exclusively submitted to The Howl. 

Turn the Tide! Submit your poetry here.

The staff of The Howl welcomes all high school students to submit to our second contest! Our theme is “Turning of the Tides.” Literal or figurative, send us some turbulent art. We will select one winner from each of the following categories (three winners total): 

– Prose, flash fiction or creative non-fiction (1,000 words or less)         

– Poetry (limit of one poem)         

– Visual Art (hand done, digital, photography, collage, etc.) 

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Submitters must be high-school students (ages 14-18) and must include a third-person bio with their submission (including your name, age, and a little bit about yourself). 
• If your poem requires any kind of special formatting please let us know in your bio. 
• Any contest winners who are under 18 will need to have a permission slip signed by a parent or guardian before work gets posted. 
• Work must be original (no A.I. usage of any kind) and exclusively submitted to The Howl. 

Turn the Tide! Submit your visual work here.

The staff of The Howl welcomes all high school students to submit to our second contest! Our theme is “Turning of the Tides.” Literal or figurative, send us some turbulent art. We will select one winner from each of the following categories (three winners total): 

– Prose, flash fiction or creative non-fiction (1,000 words or less)         

– Poetry (limit of one poem)         

– Visual Art (hand done, digital, photography, collage, etc.) 

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Submitters must be high-school students (ages 14-18) and must include a third-person bio with their submission (including your name, age, and a little bit about yourself). 
• Please include the medium and dimensions of the piece (if digital, the horizontal and vertical pixel counts).
• Any contest winners who are under 18 will need to have a permission slip signed by a parent or guardian before work gets posted. 
• Work must be original (no A.I. usage of any kind) and exclusively submitted to The Howl. 

• 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.  
• 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.  
• 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.
• 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.