print issue submission guidelines
Issue no. 2: Mystics & Saints
Submissions are OPEN from February 7th - March 7th!
We’re looking for work steeped in mysticism or sainthood, literal or defamiliarized interpretations welcome. We seek what lives in devotion, pilgrimage, sacrifice, resistance, justice, resilience. Sacred or unruly, divine or dreadful.
Reach further than traditional Christian and Western frameworks, but they need not be omitted entirely. Consider Alice Wong’s “Disabled Oracle” archetype, Jeff Buckley’s Sufi affinity, the celestial intimacy of Ramadan and Lent, or Indigenous mythology.
Our first poetry contest, the 2026 Clarion Poetry Prize is also open for submissions, and winning pieces will be published in the current print issue.
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We welcome submissions from all over the world! Submissions are free, and we expect response times to be within two months of receiving them. Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, all we ask is that if your work is accepted elsewhere that you let us know immediately via email.
Your name should appear on your cover letter but not in the submitted work, and it would assist us greatly if you can submit your work in EB Garamond, 11 pt, single-spaced. With each submission, please include a third-person bio no longer than 100 words in the body of your email.
We will not consider work that is racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, ableist, or any other discrimination of the like, nor will we consider work that uses AI in any way.
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Sabr Tooth Tiger publishes poetry of all types—free verse, form, experimental, and more. You may email poetry submissions to sabrtoothtigermag@gmail.com.
To submit, please send up to 5 original, previously unpublished poems in one single .DOC/.DOCX or PDF file with one poem per page (eight pages maximum), and title the file with your last name and indicate “Poetry” (example: LastName_Poetry.docx).
Please indicate POETRY SUBMISSION in your subject line. You may also include a brief cover letter in the body of your email.
We consider individual poems as well as grouped pieces. We would love to consider poetry in translation as well, so long as you have permission from the original author to do so (or can translate your own poems to English from their original language). Possible languages include Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Irish Gaelic, Japanese, Chinese, etc. When submitting translated poetry, please include the work in both its original language and the English translation.
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Sabr Tooth Tiger publishes fiction, essays, and creative nonfiction. You may email prose submissions to sabrtoothtigermag@gmail.com.
To submit, please send up to 3 original, previously unpublished pieces no longer than 6,000 words each. Multiple prose pieces should be sent in separate .DOC/.DOCX files, and title each file with your last name and indicate “Prose” (example: LastName_Prose.docx).
Please indicate PROSE SUBMISSION in your subject line. You may also include a brief cover letter in the body of your email.
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Sabr Tooth Tiger accepts all mediums of artwork, including painting, collage, mixed media, digital, photography, sculpture, and more. We will not consider AI-generated art. You can email art submissions to sabrtoothtigermag@gmail.com.
Please submit up to 5 individual art pieces, including high-resolution images of your artwork with your submission. If you are submitting photographs of your artwork (sculpture, fiber arts, paintings, etc.), please consider high-quality photography conventions such as lighting, angles, and framing.
Please indicate ART SUBMISSION in your subject line, and title each art file with your last name and the name of the work (example: LastName_Title_Art.jpeg). All art submissions should be high-resolution JPGs, JPEGs, or PNGs.
If you wish, you may also include a brief artist’s statement about your work.
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We require First Serial Rights, meaning we must be the first publication your work appears in. Following publication, all rights revert to the author, but we ask that Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine is credited in subsequent reprints. In addition, we reserve the right to edit submissions in accordance with the rules of our style guide, but all edits will be shared with the author for approval before publication.
We currently do not have the funds to regularly be a paying market, as we are a small, independent team, but we aspire to in the future. We currently offer contributors free PDF copies of the issue their work is in, as well as a discounted print copy priced to cover printing and shipping costs. We proudly nominate work for the Pushcart Prize and other relevant prizes and awards.