Hello everyone! Impression.zone is back open for submissions.

If you don’t know what this magazine is, I want to receive the most personal, irreverent, strange art you’ve made and want to share with the world. Stories about a unicorn trying to find her place in a Sci-Fi dystopia, essays about how turtles represent the ineffable cycle of destruction and rebirth, and visual artwork that could frankly mean anything are examples of the kinds of things I’m looking for.

SUBMISSIONS OVERVIEW:

• Submissions are open from 3/10/2026 – 4/14/2026 (officially closing at 11:59 PM EST)
• You will receive an email back about the status of your submission at most 4 months after submission.
• The Submissions will be evaluated by a group of odd critters, so if your piece doesn’t get in, don’t worry about it. It was probably just too metaphysically powerful for our humble brains to grasp.
• The magazine will go live May 1st, 2026.
• The magazine will be posted in a blog post format and as a PDF, so keep that in mind when uploading content. Videos will be posted as a link to a YouTube video.
  • For the PDF, pages will be 6″ x 9″.
• The magazine will only be including up to 3 pieces from each submitter. If there is a lack of material, the cap may be extended to 4.
• We’ll be aiming for around 20-35 pages, and be willing to go as high as 45. That said, it may end up being shorter (possibly even considerably shorter) based on the quantity of submissions.
• One visual art submission may be selected as the cover of the magazine for PDF by the judges.

SUBMISSION TYPES:

You may submit up to:

• 5 poems
• 2 short stories
  • OF 5K words or less
• 2 articles
  • OF 5K WORDS OR LESS
• 2 Videos
  • OF 10:00 or less
• 2 TTRPGS
  • OF 7 PAGES OR LESS
• 5 pieces of Visual Art
• 3 Songs

If you have some kind of art not listed here, send me a message on Discord if you have my account, otherwise send an email to mystremstudios@gmail.com

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

• Explorations of sexuality are fine, but if it feels like sexual gratification is the main purpose of the piece, it will likely be rejected.
• There is no limit to how many you can upload in different categories. For example, you can upload 5 poems and 2 short stories.
• Be weird. Have fun.

You can read more about the editors of the magazine in the staff page.

SUBMISSION FORM LINK