Submissions Call for April 2025 Edition of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal

***Submissions are now closed due to capacity being reached***

Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality would like to invite submissions to the April 2025 edition of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal, which goes out on Thursday, 17 April. Tintreach publishes creative work from across the artistic spectrum. Submissions are accepted until we reach capacity, or until midnight on Friday, 7 March, 2025 – whichever comes first. There is no theme.

Artist Submissions

Artist submissions can be in any genre or form. International submissions are welcome. A few notes:

Shorter-Form Pieces

• Poems can be any length.
• Articles should be no longer than 1,500 words.
• A written excerpt from a play or screenplay should not exceed 1,500 words.
• If sending a photograph, or an image of a painting, sculpture, or architectural work, please ensure that the images are of a high quality, and provide the work’s label: material(s) used, dimensions, and year. Please include a few lines contextualising your piece and explaining how it relates to the theme. Lastly, please remember to include the title of the piece in the file names themselves.
• Videos, or video excerpts, of plays, should not run longer than 20 minutes. Please ensure that the video is of a high audiovisual calibre.
• If submitting a song, piece of music, short film, video artwork, feature-film excerpt, or dance piece, please ensure it doesn’t exceed 20 minutes. Likewise, please make sure that they are of a high audiovisual calibre.

Longer-Form Pieces

• Prose submissions – a short story, non-fiction essay, or novel extract – should be no longer than 3,000 words.

Submissions Per Person

• We publish four artists per edition. Ideally, we will publish more than one piece by each artist, unless their pieces are longer form (short story, non-fiction essay, or novel extract). The purpose of this is to offer artists, especially emerging artists, more exposure than a journal publication would normally offer.
• When it comes to shorter-form pieces (everything except for short stories, non-fiction essays, or novel extracts), we strive to publish two works by each artist, while the Featured Artist will have 3–4 pieces included. Therefore, unless you are submitting a longer-form piece, we ask that you submit a minimum of two works and a maximum of three. These can be in two or three different artforms if you wish. (For example, one poem and two paintings, or one poem, one painting, and one song).
• You may only submit one longer-form piece (short story, non-fiction essay, or novel extract). However, you may submit one shorter-form piece alongside this, if you wish. This makes a maximum of two total submissions if you are submitting one longer-form piece. (For example, one short story and one painting, or one novel extract and one poem.)

General Guidelines

• Submissions may have appeared elsewhere before, though new work is especially welcome. (If a submission has appeared elsewhere, please state this and include the publication details.)
• Submissions can be made in English, Irish, or in translation. For Irish language submissions, accompanying English language translations are welcome, though this is in no way compulsory. For translations of the work of another author, all relevant permissions must be obtained beforehand. We may also look to publish the original alongside the translation.
• There is no entry fee.
• Submissions are accepted until we reach capacity, or midnight on Friday, 7 March, 2025 – whichever comes first. ***Submissions are now closed due to capacity being reached.*** Please submit to smashingsubmissions(at)gmail.com. Subject lines should read: ‘Tintreach Submission, April 2025’. Please include a max two-line biography to accompany your piece, written in third person and making reference to your previous publications/exhibitions/appearances (if applicable); any social media/website links you would like to be included in case of publication; a headshot or photograph; whether you would like to be signed up to receive Tintreach (in addition to our monthly newsletter), which is free of charge, (so that, if selected, you receive the edition in which your work appears); and how exactly you heard of this submission opportunity. In order to ensure your submission’s eligibility, please make sure that you have included everything we have requested.
• Our preference for written pieces is that they be sent in a Word document. Please do not send them in a PDF.
• If we accept a written piece, the editor will contact you with at least one round of suggested edits, so please monitor your email closely.
• If your work is accepted, it will appear not only in Tintreach but possibly on the Smashing Times website and across our social media channel (always with credit).
• Contributors will receive a small fee.
• Not all submissions will be accepted, unfortunately.
• The edition goes out on Thursday, 17 April, 2025.
• Tintreach reaches around 1,400 people, including a range of major organisations in the areas of arts and human rights, both in Ireland and across Europe. Previous contributors to the Tintreach section of our newsletter include poets Jessica Traynor and Fady Joudah, Senator Lynn Ruane, 2023 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Narges Mohammadi, rapper-singer Saint Levant, visual artist Erika Diettes, and many more.
• Submissions are especially welcome from individuals who have been underrepresented historically, such as ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, members of the Traveller community, the LGBTQ+ community, and women. Please let us know when submitting if you belong to any of these or suchlike minorities.

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