Our submissions period for the third issue opens Oct 14, 2026. Submit using our submission manager here.

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 current issue to get a sense of writing and art we are interested in.

For fiction and nonfiction:
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 We accept previously unpublished writing only.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 third issue, we welcome fiction and nonfiction works that explore the optional theme of "Life Transitions and Life Stage Changes."

Prompt: Life changes can be gradual, taking on the shape of accumulated moments. Occasionally, a single landmark—a move, milestone birthday, birth, new relationship—shakes how we see ourselves. This landmark may be as small as a friend's comment that caused our reflection, or a vista on a completed hike. In the time following, we can pinpoint this event as kicking off the transition that changed our world. We are interested in reading about the process of adaptation that differentiates these periods. What do we hold onto, in the middle of change, and what do we discard, willingly or unwillingly? We are looking for nonfiction and fiction that explore life transition and our transformation that results, whether in the habits that become bulwarks or variations in personality. When we change, how do we emerge from our old patterns, and what is the daily experience of creating a new life?

For visual art submissions, please email directly to blanketgravitymag@gmail.com.