Our submissions are currently OPEN until May 15th, 2023 at 11:59 PM EDT!

Please read all guidelines carefully before submitting.

Delicate Friend is an adult (18+) space for erotic and intimate art and literature that you enjoyed creating. Art is work, so enjoyment does not exclude difficulty. Difficulty can be exciting! At the same time, we want this journal to be a fun experience for our contributors and readers.

To submit, send an email to delicatelit@gmail.com with your name and pronouns in the subject line (ex. “Fox Auslander – They/them”). Your submission can be attached as a file or pasted in the body of your email. We also recommend providing a third-person bio in the body of the email, but feel free to do so at your own discretion.

Guidelines
Delicate Friend is a paying market! We pay $10+ to each accepted contributor upon issue release.

We are looking for poetry, prose, visual art, music, videos, game descriptions, fake movie reviews, real movie reviews, and more. One of us had an idea to create a section for crossword puzzles and mazes, and while we decided against it, those would still be cool.

We are not looking for graphic descriptions of trauma, abuse, or non-consensual acts.

Please limit the length of your submissions to the following:

• Poetry: Up to five poems
• Prose: Up to 2000 words (total, not per piece)
• Visual art: Up to five pieces
• Video and audio: Around three minutes

We accept simultaneous submissions. If you need to withdraw your work, please reply to your original submission email with the names of the pieces that have been accepted elsewhere.

We also accept previously published work. Please include any prior publications in which your submission has appeared within your submission document. 

You can expect to see a response to your submission one week after the closure of the submission period. If you receive a rejection, please wait until the next submission period to contact us again. If you are accepted, we request you wait to submit again until the issue following yours is out. We want to make room (space, if you will) for new voices.