Metachrosis literary magazine is an online publication that strives to be the place where the foundations of the world around us are explored and celebrated. Created as part of the Art, Science, and Visual Thinking MFA at Dundee University, this magazine is open to all forms of writing, art, and Hybrid work, whether creative or factual.

We are an emerging literary magazine looking for any work celebrating the intersection between art and science.

Welcome to Metachrosis Literary! We aim to celebrate the diverse beauty of art and science with creativity and passion. We love work that explores the world and combines creative media to create something new and innovative. The work doesn't have to be traditionally 'scientific'. We prefer an earnest exploration of the world over imitating the language people usually use to describe it.

We're accepting art, poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction, reviews, and any hybrid forms you can of those media you please.

A prose piece written in computer code? Great!

A poem about the process of carbon dating? Love it!

A diagram of the perfect method for preparing spaghetti? Send it on!

We love the passionate, the critical, and the humorous, and more than anything else we'd love to see your work.

If you want to get a feel for what we publish, you can read all of our previous issues for free on our website: https://metachrosislitmag.co.uk

Submission Guidelines

Please only send unpublished work.

Documents should include your name and the titles of your pieces. (Don't worry, we're not strict on this, so long as we can identify it, there's no problem.)

Include a 50-word biography, which will be featured at the end of the issue.

If you want to send a 150-200 word cover letter, I'd be delighted to read it, but it's not required and won't affect my opinion of your work.

I'm not interested in reading/seeing anything bigoted/pornographic/gratuitously violent.

Any submissions sent outside reading periods will be ignored until the next reading period. If we're reading submissions, it will say so at the top of the page and on our social media.

These are all guidelines, not rules. As long as everything is presented clearly, I am happy. Word counts and genres are also flexible; if your piece is too long or doesn't strictly fit a defined category, that's fine. It's purely for the sake of keeping track of submissions.

Poetry:

• Please send a maximum of 3 poems; keep it under 40 lines.
• If your poem is over 40 lines, please only send one piece.
• Send Via pdf using Times New Roman, 12pt, 1.5 spacing.
• All forms of poetry are accepted.
• Keep the title length reasonable; paragraph-long titles are difficult to format, and I'm only human.
  
  

Prose/Fiction:

• Please send 1 piece of a maximum of 1000 words.
• Send via Word doc or .docx. I'm using an editing app to check grammar/spelling, so please specify if your work purposefully avoids specific grammar/spelling rules.
• Times New Roman, 12pt, 1.5 spacing.
• If you are using an experimental/visual layout, specify that in the email and send both a PDF copy and a doc/docx copy.
  
  

Non-Fiction:

• Please send 1 piece of a maximum of 1000 words.
• Cite your sources using MLA format.
• Send via Word doc or .docx; I'm using an editing app to check grammar/spelling, so please specify if your work purposefully avoids specific grammar/spelling rules.
• Times New Roman, 12pt, 1.5 spacing.
• If you are using an experimental/visual layout, specify that in the email and send both a PDF copy and a doc/docx copy.
  
  

Art/Hybrid

• Please send between 1 and 5 images in a medium of your choice.
• No AI-generated/stolen art.
• Include titles, mediums, and dimensions (if applicable)
  
  

Reviews

• Please send 1 piece of a maximum of 800 words
• Send via doc or docx; I'm using an editing app to check grammar/spelling, so please specify if your work purposefully avoids specific grammar/spelling rules.
• Include indented quotes aligned with the centre of the page.
• Times New Roman, 12pt, 1.5 spacing.