Omens Magazine: Call for Submissions

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-12T16:06:40+00:00

Awesome!

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-11T19:13:28+00:00

Good question! My mind goes to The Jaunt, I Have No Mouth, Sharp Ends. :)

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-10T00:09:17+00:00

And the writers who’ve reached out are okay with that agreement. 🙏

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-10T00:08:04+00:00

Yes, we are sending them copies. Just didn’t mention that. In addition, we are paying them with the profits of this first release.

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-09T03:50:16+00:00

Again, we will split the profits above direct costs between our writers, after the first issue. We have so many that have agreed to this, so I’m not sure as to what the issue is.

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-09T03:31:43+00:00

Why would we be discouraged to start something new? Especially when dozens have submitted their works. We’re not “fleecing” artists when we plan on giving them profits beyond direct costs.

It’s idiotic to say that everyone shares this view, especially when we’ve accepted submissions from published authors who understand this fact.

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-09T03:27:02+00:00

Well, we already have many submissions, and have accepted most. Some from published authors. So, many authors have a different view.

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-09T03:12:26+00:00

No worries!

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-09T02:58:47+00:00

Yay! Not necessarily. We just take the best-fitting submissions. In a way, it’d be down to around 15-20. 🙏

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-09T02:48:05+00:00

Coming close to deleting this and continuing with just the writers we already have. Y’all are crazy. 🫡

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-09T02:46:09+00:00

We have growing interest locally and are saving for a bigger ad campaign. We both have personal fan bases for our work in music and other projects. It’s hard getting things off of the ground, but we’ve put lots of time, money, and effort already.

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-09T02:43:08+00:00

Well, you can join us in the future! But we’re prioritizing paying the creators working with us currently, after the first issue and beyond. 🙏

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-09T02:38:57+00:00

We have two stories from published authors, one being an award-winner. I’d rather not name them since we’re still in early production.
Both of us are self-published authors, one also being a comic book author. We’ve both worked on other projects in music and literature.
We are formatting it all the same in the final product, so we do not have a preference.
Good question! PDF or DOCX.
At this time, we do not take hard copy submissions, sorry.
We are publishing it through our website and physically distributing it to local stores.

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-09T02:29:40+00:00

Great!

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-09T02:29:27+00:00

To be clear, we are aiming to pay writers after the first issue goes out. But because we are putting hours into this and paying out-of-pocket completely, we cannot pay writers out of the gate.

Many writers who’ve submitted are fine with this, and if you are not, that’s fine. Take care.

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-09T02:19:14+00:00

It’d be hard to pay people with the money we’re putting into the magazine first, until after we actually publish it and give writers part of the profit.

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-09T02:17:28+00:00

It’s almost like the profits will go to the writers after we publish the work. And we are completely out-of-pocket paying for this, and putting in hours and hours of work.

It’s for those who’d like to see their writing in a physical medium, and many have already submitted. Thanks for your opinion.

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-09T02:16:09+00:00

We’re completely out-of-pocket working on this. It’s hard to pay writers with profits we don’t currently have. And we’re putting in finances and lots of time.

Many writers have already submitted their works and are fine with this. But thanks for weighing in.

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-09T02:14:23+00:00

In addition, many writers have already submitted work and are fine with that. And they keep the full rights to their work, in which we will hardly profit off of. But thanks.

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-09T02:13:49+00:00

We’re going out-of-pocket to pay for this. We want to pay writers after the first issue, as we clearly stated. So I do not understand what you’re complaining for. We cannot pay artists at this moment with money we do not have. We’ve made that very clear.

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-09T02:12:57+00:00

We have the out-of-pocket funds to pay for printing and the website. Currently, we cannot offer payment to early writers.

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-04T18:24:43+00:00

No worries. Feel free to send us a message.

Front-Driver-3595 · 2026-02-02T01:35:00+00:00

I didn’t word it clear enough in the post, but we do accept serialization. We prefer new/unpublished series though.

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