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Fiction Guidelines
We’re excited about cyberpunk in all its forms—classic and modern, urban and off-world, sleek and gritty. In fiction, we're looking for what you'd expect; near-future worlds with corporate control, people altered by tech-implants, you get it. Above all however, we care about character. We want people who make us feel something while they're navigating whatever wild setting you’ve built.
We're less interested in anything outside of the cyberpunk subgenre for this magazine. If you're submitting, please make sure you'd classify your work as cyberpunk specifically.
| Word Limit | 500 – 10,000 words |
| Pay Rate | Because this is a free magazine without ads, we can't offer any payment at this time. It’s our goal to eventually pay a competitive per-word rate, but we’re not quite there yet. We get it if that's a non-starter for you. |
| How to Submit | Email your story as a .doc, .docx, or .pdf to contact@burnlinemag.com. Please include the word "Submission" in the subject line. |
No AI-generated or AI-assisted work will be accepted. We only want human-created fiction. There's irony somewhere in here.
Please feel free to submit your work to any other publications while you're waiting to hear back from us—just let us know if it gets picked up. If we take a while to respond, we haven't forgotten your work, we're just moving through the backlog. Thanks for your patience.
Art Guidelines
We’re accepting cyberpunk-themed visual art for digital publication. Any medium is welcome—digital, hand-drawn, or mixed—except photography. If it feels cyberpunk, we want to see it.
| Artwork Specs | Cover art should be portrait-oriented, sized at 8.5" × 11" (2550 × 3300 px) at 300 dpi. Please have a PNG or high-quality JPG available if selected. Inner-issue art can be any dimension. |
| Pay Rate | Because this is a free magazine without ads, we can't offer any payment at this time. It’s our goal to eventually pay a competitive rate, but we’re not quite there yet. We get it if that's a non-starter for you. |
| How to Submit | Email contact@burnlinemag.com with a link to your artwork wherever it's hosted (ArtStation portfolio, Reddit post, etc.). Please include the word "Submission" in the subject line. |
If selected, your artwork will be added to the digital issue of the magazine and included on our Art page. You'll be fully credited on the magazine and site, including whatever name and profile/social handles you'd like to include.
No AI-generated or AI-assisted work will be accepted.
Cover Letters
Emails and cover letters are much less important to us than your fiction or artwork. If a part of your personal story contributes to what you've made, we’d love to hear about it—but otherwise, keep it simple. We're here for the work itself.