Page Turner Magazine is a graduate magazine at Emerson College dedicated to genre fiction and art.
**Note: Only EMERSON students may submit pieces for our contests, while ANY CURRENT COLLEGE STUDENT may submit for general and art submissions.**
We evaluate submissions on a blind submission basis. Please DO NOT include any personally identifying details in your manuscript or image.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but you must notify us immediately if your work is accepted at another publication. At this time, we are unable to consider excerpts from larger works or novels in progress.
All submitted fiction must be original and not published elsewhere (note: if you have a piece that’s on your personal or author site, still send us that sweet, sweet fiction, but if it’s in another journal or magazine, we can’t accept the submission). Please avoid including public figures, such as celebrities, in the fiction you submit. We do not accept works that have utilized AI for any part of the writing process. We reserve the right to reject submissions that promote or support racism, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, prejudice, classism, xenophobia, ableism, body-shaming, gratuitous sex/violence, and any other material the submissions board deems inappropriate for publication. If an author is found to be abusive or engages in harassment, we reserve the right to remove their content from our journal and to decline further submissions from that author.
In order for your submission to be considered, you must be a current Emerson College student with a college email (.edu).
Writing Submissions should be as follows:
1. Saved as a .doc or .docx file
2. 12-point Times New Roman or Garamond font
3. Double-spaced
4. Page-numbered in top right corner
5. No more than 1,500 words (contests) or 7,500 words (gen subs)
6. Follows the given contest prompt or acceptable genres
7. Edited and polished for publication!
8. All identifiers such as your name are removed from the document
Page Turner Magazine is a graduate magazine at Emerson College dedicated to genre fiction and art.
**Note: Only EMERSON students may submit pieces for our contests, while ANY CURRENT COLLEGE STUDENT may submit for general and art submissions.**
We evaluate submissions on a blind submission basis. Please DO NOT include any personally identifying details in your manuscript or image.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but you must notify us immediately if your work is accepted at another publication. At this time, we are unable to consider excerpts from larger works or novels in progress.
All submitted fiction must be original and not published elsewhere (note: if you have a piece that’s on your personal or author site, still send us that sweet, sweet fiction, but if it’s in another journal or magazine, we can’t accept the submission). Please avoid including public figures, such as celebrities, in the fiction you submit. We do not accept works that have utilized AI for any part of the writing process. We reserve the right to reject submissions that promote or support racism, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, prejudice, classism, xenophobia, ableism, body-shaming, gratuitous sex/violence, and any other material the submissions board deems inappropriate for publication. If an author is found to be abusive or engages in harassment, we reserve the right to remove their content from our journal and to decline further submissions from that author.
In order for your submission to be considered, you must be a current Emerson College student with a college email (.edu).
Writing Submissions should be as follows:
- Saved as a .doc or .docx file
- 12-point Times New Roman or Garamond font
- Double-spaced
- Page-numbered in top right corner
- No more than 1,500 words
- Follows the prompt "Write a scary, science-based story containing the best ingredients of a PSL: Psychics, Secrets, and Lies!"
- Edited and polished for publication!
- All identifiers such as your name are removed from the document
**ANY CURRENT COLLEGE STUDENT MAY SUBMIT**
Note: As with our fiction submissions, do not include your name on the piece, as we evaluate all pieces on a blind submission basis. In addition to the guidelines listed in the above “right to reject” section, we will not accept artwork that includes hateful words, symbols, or any other material that PTM deems inappropriate for display. General submissions art pieces can also be considered to be the cover art for our Spring 2026 print issue.
- Convey the spirit of genre fiction (subjective, but that is the goal)
- We accept both digital files & high-resolution scans
- FULL COLOR
- size= no larger than A4 (230 mm x 297 mm or 8.268 in x 11.693 in)
- bleed= 0.125 in
- ALL images should be at least 300 ppi
- Saved as a .jpeg file
HOW TO SUBMIT:
Ready your artwork as a JPEG and attach it to the form.
File naming convention for your artwork is: [YourTitle].jpg
Reminder: Do not include your name in the file name or in the piece title.
We can’t wait to see your artwork!
Writing Submissions should be as follows:
1. Saved as a .doc or .docx file
2. 12-point Times New Roman or Garamond font
3. Double-spaced
4. Page-numbered in top right corner
5. Between 500-2,500 words
6. Edited and polished for publication!