Submissions are now being accepted for spring vol. 15, the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild’s magazine showcasing emerging Saskatchewan writers. This magazine publishes poetry and short prose (fiction and creative non-fiction).
Writers selected for publication will receive payment at the standard SWG rates, as well as two complimentary copies of Spring. Contributors will have the chance to read their work at a virtual launch in April 2026.
Criteria:
Those submitting must be:
- Saskatchewan residents who may or may not be members of the SWG
- Emerging writers who have not published their work or had their work accepted for publication in book-length form (64 pages) in either traditional or self-publication formats. Those who have published chapbooks are eligible to submit.
Guidelines:
Please email the following to swgmagazines@gmail.com with spring Submission Volume 15 in the subject line:
- A Cover letter that includes:
- Your name, mailing address, email and phone number
- Declaration that you are a resident of Saskatchewan
- Genre(s) and title(s) of your submission(s)
- A brief (50-75 word) bio that will appear in the magazine should your submission(s) be published.
- Declaration that your submission is solely your work and no AI tools (eg. ChatGPT) were used. We do not accept any submissions of any kind that were written, developed, or assisted by AI tools.
- To help the SWG support writers of diverse communities and identities, we encourage applicants to self-declare if they identify as a writer who is a member of group(s) experiencing marginalization and underrepresentation (i.e. Black, Indigenous, or Person of Colour, 2SLGBTQ+, or Disability).
- Your submission(s), which meet these guidelines:
- Submissions must be previously unpublished in any format (including online formats).
- Submissions must be your original creative work; writers who submit plagiarized work will be banned from spring. Plagiarism, whether from the web, or from other people, or from published sources (digital or print) is a serious writing offense. Plagiarism is the presentation of words or thoughts of someone else as if they were your own – exceptions are proverbial sayings or common knowledge. Avoid charges of plagiarizing by acknowledging your sources in the submission and be sure that all words and phrases from the source are in quotation marks.
- All work must be original and human-generated from start to finish. We do not accept submissions of any kind that were written, developed, or assisted by AI tools such as ChatGPT. Any attempt to submit AI-aided work may result in being banned from submitting to spring.
- Submissions must be in English
- All material must be typed in body-text fonts like Times New Roman, Courier, or Arial
- font size should be 12 pt
- pages must include 1" margins
- pages should be numbered sequentially
- title and your name included in either header or footer
- prose should be double-spaced, poetry may be single-spaced;
- Prose submissions (fiction and creative non-fiction) are limited to 3,000 words. You may submit more than one prose piece (i.e. flash fiction or essays) but your entire submission must be no more than 3,000 words.
- Poetry submissions may be individual poems, sequences or suites up to four poems totaling no more than 5 pages. Excerpts from longer prose and poetry works will be considered. Please make sure that each new poem starts on a new page.
- Please submit work as a Word document (PDF is okay, but we prefer Word docx. files). Google Doc links, Pages files, etc., will NOT be accepted.
- You are welcome to submit in both prose and poetry, but contributors will only be published in one genre.
Spring’s Managing Editor & Prose editor is Ashleigh Mattern, and Spring’s Associate Poetry editor is Kim Mannix.
Deadline for submissions is October 31, 2025, at midnight.
