The Garden Literary
Founded in 2024 by Grace Yang, The Garden Literary is a youth-led 501(c)(3) nonprofit digital arts and culture magazine.
Our goal is to give all writers and artists a platform to share their work, regardless of background, age, or publication history. Everyone deserves to put their voice out there, to plant flowers in the garden that is humanity.
✦ Issues
What tiny nuances of life do we overlook?
Submissions for Issue 01 are currently closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted; decision emails will be sent out in 3 to 4 weeks, at the latest.
✦ Submit
Issue 01:
This issue, we are highlighting life's overlooked complexities — the details we notice and collect while being among the flowers.
Submissions: OPEN
Our upcoming issue's submissions are currently closed. Decision emails will be sent out in 3 to 4 weeks, at the latest. Read our guidelines for more information.
✦ Guidelines
We accept and publish the following:
- Poetry
- Short stories
- Novel excerpts
- Social commentary
- Literary criticism
- Essays
- Nonfiction
- Artwork
- PhotographyGeneral criteria:
We do not publish previously published pieces, but we do accept simultaneous submissions. If your piece is accepted elsewhere, please email us as soon as possible. If you reprint your work after publishing in The Garden Literary, we ask that you credit our publication as where your piece first appeared.Submission standards:
All work must be original to you and not plagiarized in any manner. We do not accept work generated by artificial intelligence. Pieces should not contain hate speech. If pieces contain extreme violence, sexual content, or other explicit themes, please provide content and trigger warnings.If you submit work written in a different language, we ask that you also provide an English translation. Both versions will be published.Writing specifications:
Nonfiction prose: 1000 to 1500 words in length, 12 pt. serif or sans serif font, double-spaced, .doc or .docx format.Poems: up to 5 per submission, all 25 lines or less, single-spaced, .doc or .docx format.Fictional prose: 1500 to 2000 words in length, 12 pt. serif or sans serif font, double-spaced, .doc or .docx format.Short stories: up to 5 per submission, 1500 to 2000 words each, 12 pt. serif or sans serif font, double-spaced, .doc or .docx format.Visual media specifications:
All submitted photography and artwork should be high-resolution in JPEG or PNG format.
✦ Staff
Staff applications are officially closed. Thank you so much to everyone who has applied; staff members have been confirmed, and official introductions will be posted soon.
Grace Yang
Founder, editor-in-chief