Thank you for considering Hungry Folktale as a home for your precious words, photos, and food creations. We are humbled and honored to view your work.
We respect and value every submission that comes across our desks. We read them all, consider them all, and try and give honest, sensitive, and timely feedback. Our mission is to promote engaged, conscious living with particular emphasis on the food we eat, the words we read, and the art we see. We want to inspire, uplift, and nourish our readers.
Though we put a lot of work into the finished product, we know that we do not exist without the writers, artists, and foodies that submit to us and support us by reading our pages. Hungry Folktale believes that readers come first, contributors second, and ourselves third.
To ensure we produce the finest zine we are capable of, we compiled a few guidelines. These help us to do our jobs more efficiently and timely, and ensure we can publish a zine that is substantial, yet affordable, and readable.
General Guidelines:
- Please use our online submission platform to submit your work.
- Please do not submit more than once every quarter/season. You may, however, submit to more than one category per quarter/season.
- Please read and follow our detailed instructions.
- Please submit well-written, edited work of literary quality. Texts needing heavy editing will be returned.
- Simultaneous submission are accepted, but please notify us when your work is accepted elsewhere. We promise to congratulate you and wish you well.
All accepted pieces will require a short bio with publication, it is great if you send it with your submission. (Bios should be less than 100 words, written in third person.)
Response Time:
Our goal is to respond to your work within 30-60 days. If you have not heard from us in 60 days please query us at info {{at}} hungryfolktale {{dot}} com.
Queries, questions, Inquiries:
Please send your correspondences to info {{at}} hungryfolktale {{dot}} com. Include the specific subject of your email in the subject line. (Exp: Query: J.Doe Submission dated xx’13; Query: Freelance Photographer; Question Re: x,y, z)
We look forward to being inspired by your words and food creations.
If you have any questions, fill out the form below and we'll answer as quickly and thoroughly as possible.
Poetry
We accept unpublished works of poetry that focus, highlight, or celebrate vegan food, nature, family, and/or conscious living. We favor content and substance over form, and publish poetry that is in tune with the season in which it will be printed.
Flash Fiction
We accept unpublished flash fiction and short stories not exceeding 700 words. All fiction submissions should focus, highlight, or celebrate vegan food, nature, family, and/or conscious living. Seasonal stories naturally navigate to the top of our reading list, but we do understand that some stories are timeless and without season.
Creative Nonfiction
We love personal essays at Hungry Folktale. We find ourselves falling in love with lyrical essays that expand our consciousness and our celebration of the things we love: vegan food, nature through the seasons, family, and conscious living. Please tell us your family and personal folktales, family lore, and inspire us to live deeply. As with our other categories, seasonal essays naturally rise to the top, but we are open to timeless, well-written essays that will stay with us and inspire us.
Photography
Hungry Folktale is always interested in great photography that focuses on vegan food and nature. Please send us your photographs, your photo essays, or let us know if you are interested in shooting recipes.
Recipes
Hungry Folktale is interested in from scratch, homemade vegan recipes that utilize in season, whole foods. Each issue strives to contain a recipe for an entire day, so recipe submissions should fall within one of the following sub-categories: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack, Beverage, Dessert, Raw.
We are most interested in homey, comfort food that fills the soul. Slow food, cooked with love over time excites us, but we also find value in simple recipes with few, quality ingredients.
How-to/ Feature Articles
Hungry Folktale is passionate about educating and inspiring our readers to live engaged,
conscious lives. We also believe that sharing is caring, so if you have an idea you believe will make a great informative or how-to article, we’d like to hear about it. We are interested in articles that cover gardening, personal care products, longer or specialized cooking techniques, ethnic or regional food, writing and craft articles that pertain to our focus, and any other article that inspires conscious, engaged living.
Accepted articles will need accompanying professional quality photographs, and should fit within 3-5 pages.
Please query us your ideas, with sample work (photography and writing, online work/links okay). Please do not submit more than 10 files.
Recipe Testers
Hungry Folktale is interested in recipe testers to try submissions that make it to the accepted list. We don’t ask that you be vegan, vegetarian, or even a great cook. In fact, less experience is a plus, it helps us to write clear instructions. We do hope that you are open and eager to try vegan food, know how to cook without burning yourself, others, or your house, and are confident with a sharp knife.
Thank you for supporting the Hungry Folktale Community.
For more information regarding submission, please feel out the form below.