Inclusive Access: No Submission Fee (Vol. 6.1)

Yolk is proud to offer an Inclusive Access category for those who might otherwise be unable to submit due to financial barriers. Please only use this form if you would otherwise be completely unable submit to yolk. Yolk is a registered NPO and the new $3 submission fee goes towards sustaining operating costs to ensure we can sustain our operations. However, we will always have a free submission option available for those for whom the submission fee is preventative. To this end, we will only be accepting 75 submissions before we have to close this submission.

Further, yolk especially encourages submissions from Indigenous writers living across Turtle Island/Canada. In recognizing the additional cultural and socioeconomic barriers Indigenous people overcome, we are waiving submission fees for submissions by Indigenous people.

Make sure to signal which genre you are submitting to in your submission form. For individuals looking to submit in multiple genres, please submit each genre as individual submissions. 

THEME: No Theme

Our print publication is open to all Canadian writers. For our publication, we consider this to be:

-Anyone with Canadian Citizenship or Permanent Resident status, residing here or abroad

-Anyone that currently resides in Canada

FORMATTING 

• For prose submissions, do not exceed 4,000 words; only .doc and .docx formats will be considered.
• For poetry submissions, do not exceed 3 poems or 6 pages; only .doc and .docx formats will be considered.
• For visual arts submissions, the scope of acceptance covers all forms of visual art, i.e., photography, illustrations, multimedia, collages, paintings, drawings, etc.; submit no more than 10 pieces; only .jpg format will be considered
• Do not include any personal information in your text or file name. Our editors read anonymously—any submissions including personal information (name, email, etc.) within the text will not be considered.  

Before submitting, we strongly encourage you to read our general submission guidelines. Thank you for submitting to yolk!