We admire creativity with a side of science. Your health and your writing about it is irreplaceable and confidential. We believe informational art influences recovery.  

• Fonts should be something readable, size 11 pt., and pages double-spaced. 
• A humble request that final drafts be sent safely as .docx for uploads or shared as Google Docs for fee-waived email submissions. 
• Word limits for nonfiction should be in the 500 – 3000 word range. 
• Cover letters that share an author’s favorite color make us smile.
• Cover letters are important to us, and I respect the intimacy of gullibility in editorial arts…  the writer’s life summary in relation to illness founds an honesty between strangers that, weirdly enough, establishes the sturdy hardwoods of dependency.

The relationship’s limitations, through controlled confession, cover letter, enforces boundaries that value character in the wise system set-up of reader, raw product, editor, and writer. 

I’ve set backstage with a better understanding of how I want communication to feel for contributors. With Basecamp, I will create projects upon acceptance of each article that will prove a lean removal of manuscript from every-day messaging.

Hoping this will purify both our team’s and the writer’s subsequent reviewals with sharper focus, and also keep any documents private to those who deserve to see it: myself, writer, and a second editorial eye, via volunteer, vetted with sincerity. I want our parameters to surprise you. There’s generosity based in good faith principal and I think we can produce something important to the community together. 

Sharing a diagnosis is one of the most confident things a writer can do for Editorial.

• Another way to help us is by sharing backgrounds in clinical fields, or-–safely, you are under no expectation to share private details that would imperil reputation—if/how you previously became intimate with mental health/psychiatric conditions through lived experience or vicinity of… these make the reading oddly more precious to me, announces worthiness, its base weight has beginnings in recalled memory and the writer’s present temperaments towards histories more insightful.

We’re fortunate for our memories, and I consider this additional information within “spiritual” vicinity of previous, physicalized mental health experiences something to rely upon in final decisions.

• Include a writer’s biography at the end of the document that doesn’t exceed 500 words.
• Social media handles and website links are something we’ll include as long as you feel comfortable sharing.Links to any research used for writing is also encouraged, and I have always enjoyed drafting footnotes.

Payment for accepted submissions is $50. 

Email me for fee waiving at librelitmag@outlook.com.

GUIDELINES:

• Please name your files using the template: LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_GENRE.
• As for art submissions, while we don't require it, we would love to read a paragraph about the inspiration behind your work. Please include it as part of your cover letter.
• We highly encourage simultaneous submissions as we’re well-versed in the trials and tribulations of publishing. We're honored you're considering us in the first place. Writers and artists have to eat, and to eat, they must publish. Waiting for word is an excruciating process, and we will do our best to get back to you within two months' time. All we ask for is prompt notification that a piece has been accepted elsewhere.
• Please wait six months after submitting to do so again. 
• Libre holds serial rights for one year after publication. Authors and artists agree not to publish or reprint for that amount of time. After the allotted time is up, all rights revert back to the author/artist.