The submission period for the 2024 edition of Harmony Magazine is CLOSED.
Please complete the form below and submit an entry(s) separately to harmonymagazine@gmail.com. All entries are due by September 30, 2023. Notification of acceptances will be done by December 2023. Four monetary awards of $300 each will be given for 1) Mathiasen Prose Award: Best Prose Submission, 2) Ryan Visual Arts Award: Best Art Submission, 3) Parada Medical Student Award (in either art or prose), 4) Huynh Poetry Award: Best Poetry Award. Prize winners will be announced in March 2024.
Submission Guidelines
- To ensure that the work is reviewed anonymously, please do not include any identifying information within the file itself
- Include a cover letter with your name, current mailing address, how you heard about Harmony (website, email, flyer, etc.), and brief one to two-line bio. Identify if you are a medical student, and if so, what year
- Title each entry
- All entries must be submitted in separate emails. (No grouping of multiple submissions in one email.)
- Harmony cannot guarantee that submissions (once accepted) can be pulled by the author for use in another publication
- Previously submitted work to Harmony will not be considered
- Monetary Awards are awarded to US Citizens living in the United States. Residents of other countries are welcome to submit their work and may be selected as an award winner, but no monetary award will be given.
Written Work
Limited to one piece of prose or four poems.
- Submissions must be 5,000 words or less, typed in a Word document, using 12 pt. Calibri font, doubled-spaced
- Harmony is not responsible for spelling & grammar errors. Please provide a clean, error-free version, or the submission will not be considered
- Include page numbers within header on each page
Visual Work
Limited to 4 entries.
- TIF or jpg format, in CMYK color mode - do not use a different format as the quality of the image will be reduced
- Resolution of at least 300 dpi, using approximate standard sizes such as 4x6, 5X7, or 8x10. Please do not submit entries of non-standard sizes or they will be edited to fit our dimensions