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Submitting to
~ The Fioretti ~
Welcome, all! Readers and creatives alike are welcome in this space, whether experienced or inexperienced in the ways of creating. Our goal is to support all in our efforts to widen the publishing horizons for those in the Marian community. We encourage you to submit to grow your platform and community of people that you reach with your creative works! We hope to give you a wider audience to view your piece(s) and help you to grow in whatever ways we can!
Photo by Kadin Gaviola '27
Our Submission Guidelines
Fiction Guidelines
Whether it be fantasy, mystery, science fiction, or contemporary, we consider short stories of all types. We require the stories submitted to us be 3,000 words or less, and if your story contains graphic content, we ask that you include a content warning on your piece. We look forward to reading your work!
Creative Nonfiction Guidelines
Creative nonfiction reflects a vast genre of work, and we encourage you to explore all that this genre represents! Creative nonfiction can include narrative essays, personal reflections on research or experiences, lyrical essays, and more. The “rules” to creative nonfiction are that the events and/or research present in the piece must be true, and the piece must have some creative aspect to it. If you find yourself writing about things that haven’t actually happened in the real world, then your piece can be submitted through the fiction category. If you find yourself writing about research or historical events, you should be making subjective and personal connections to the information you are writing about.
For example, we will not be accepting academic papers that you might write for class; however, if what you’ve learned in class has impacted you in some way, we would love to hear the story of how and why you’ve been impacted.
Please keep creative nonfiction essays at 3,000 words or less. Happy writing!
Poetry Guidelines
We are looking for poetry of many different forms, whether it be rhyming, shaped, or freestyle poetry. There are a variety of creative fiction or nonfiction pieces that authors can feel comfortable writing and submitting to us. An example can include an event that happened in your life or someone else's life with conveying metaphorical expressions. If your piece or pieces have fictional or nonfictional graphic imagery, please have warnings of the pieces for the readers. Submit your work in any style you want, but we may contact you if we need to change the font or style of a piece depending on the journal's needs. We also encourage you to come with a visual if you choose to submit something, but the author does not have to.
Song Guidelines
Songs can be from any genre you choose with any representation of class, race, religion, morality, or any other beliefs you hold as a song writer. Try to have songs with reasonable amount of graphic imagery or language depending on the creative purpose for the lyrics and the graphic content. For songs, feel free to format how you want either a document or video or voice player format. We also encourage any beats or instrumental pieces. Try to keep songs between 1-5mins depending on the genre of the song. We also highly encourage artists to perform their songs at upcoming events if you feel comfortable in doing so. Events will be posted on website or via Instagram page
Visual Arts Guidelines
We are keeping submissions open for all kinds of visual arts. There is no wrong answer to this. If you have a creative voice you want to be heard or something that you are passionate about, we would like to hear your voice about that subject so we can be as passionate as you are. The list of examples for formatting can be a film, comic strip, comedy skit, sculpture, drawing, etc.