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.
✦ Issues
What tiny nuances of life do we overlook?
Our debut issue is now available to read digitally! Check it out here. Thank you to our contributors and staff.

✦ Submit
Issue 01:
This issue highlights life's overlooked complexities—the details we notice while being among the flowers.
Check out our blog!
Blog submissions are currently open. You can view the submission guidelines and submit your writing via this form.
✦ 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We do not publish previously published pieces, but we do accept simultaneous submissions.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 currently closed. Staff introductions have been posted to Instagram! Feel free to check them out here.

Grace Yang
Founder, editor-in-chief