Our submission period for the second issue opens on Sept 22, 2025. We will consider works through Jan 10, 2026, with potential for extension as needed.

What We're Looking For

Blanket Gravity Magazine is a journal for fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art. We are interested in moments of emotional intensity, and how their effects ring out in the bigger picture of our identities. We are looking for writing and art that explore mental health or emotional life. By "mental health," we mean art that tries to make sense of emotional struggle or uncertainty, as well as our thoughts about who we are, what other people mean to us, and the nature of the world.

For nonfiction, we hope to receive personal essays by people with lived experience of mental illness or emotional struggle.

We curate submissions for writing and art that will offer readers experiences outside their emotional pain, or a moment of interest or connection. We're not trying to erase or replace negative moods—we’re trying to show an expression of care.

How to Submit

You can read our first issue to get a sense of writing and art we are interested in.

Complete the form below for fiction and nonfiction works. We are open to simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately if your work has been accepted elsewhere. We accept previously unpublished writing only. Writers retain copyright after granting non-exclusive First World Electronic Rights to Blanket Gravity Magazine. The maximum length we consider is 5,000 words. Writers may indicate if they want to publish under a pseudonym or anonymously. Payment upon publication is $40 USD per accepted submission. Unfortunately, we are not considering poetry. Works must be developed and written without use of AI.

For visual art, please email 3-7 high-quality attachments to blanketgravitymag@gmail.com, as well as a link in the body of the email to the artist's portfolio if available. Blanket Gravity Magazine asks for non-exclusive license to reproduce the artwork in the online and digital magazines and social media. Artists may indicate if they want to publish their artwork under a pseudonym or anonymously. Payment upon publication is $40 USD per accepted piece. Works must be developed and created without use of AI.

Optional Theme

For the second issue, we welcome fiction and nonfiction works that explore the optional theme of "Technology and Love." Selected pieces will be featured in a special collection within the issue.

Prompt: A snippet of old text history kicks off memories of an extinguished friendship. The nightly video call between a long-distance parent and their kids. A college student confides details about romancing their crush into ChatGPT. Technology has become the site of intense shared moments, in some cases fully an additional participant in a relationship. We are looking for fiction and creative nonfiction pieces that explore the role of technology in intimate relationships today, whether by facilitating connection or misunderstanding, capturing a moment in time, or other imaginative forms of engagement. How are we molded by the people we choose, and how has technology shaped the ways we love them?

Complete the submission form for fiction and nonfiction here. For visual art submissions, please email directly to blanketgravitymag@gmail.com