Issue II: Bollywood Love Stories

✶ Theme Note

✶ headcanonmagazine @ gmail [dot] com

✶ Word limit: <10,000 words

✶ We accept submissions in English and Hindi.

✶ Genres: All (fanfiction, fan art, critical analyses, poems, interviews, reports, personal essays — & beyond. If you are unsure whether your submission works for us or not, email us and we can talk!)

✶ We accept fan videos and playlists. However, they will not be embedded in the PDF. Instead, we will publish a description and some stills from the video/list of the songs in the PDF, and publish the complete edit/playlist on our website (alongside all the other submissions).

✶ We do not accept Real Person Fiction.

✶ We sometimes accept NSFW submissions (email us!).

✶ We do not accept previously published work, unless previous publisher went dark. Pieces posted on Tumblr, Archive of Our Own, Fanfiction.net, Dreamwidth, LiveJournal, Wattpad, other social media platforms or personal blogs are accepted.

✶ If you feel more comfortable having your work published anonymously or under a pseudonym, let us know in your e-mail. However, you will still be required to send in a short bio, for us to get a little idea about who you are, but we won’t be making that information public.

✶ Submission timeline:
15 August ’23: Submissions open
15 February ’24: Submissions close
30 June ’24: Decision emails

Regular Submissions

We accept submissions around the year.

Readers are welcome to submit: fanfiction, fanart, fanvideos, book/movie/etc. reviews, & social commentaries on comics & books & films & etc. If you’re unsure whether your work fits in any of these categories or not: it’s okay! E-mail us your submissions at headcanonmagazine@gmail.com in the form of an attachment, & we’ll get back to you. Also, kindly send along a short, third person bio of yourself; & a cover letter (not more than 100 words) mentioning which piece of pop-culture/fandom your work is inspired by. We accept work in English & Hindi.

We sometimes accept Real Person Fiction (email us!). We do accept NSFW submissions. However, we ask you to mention the explicit nature of your work in the e-mail body itself.

We do not accept previously published work, unless previous publisher went dark. Pieces posted on Tumblr, Archive of Our Own, Fanfiction.net, Dreamwidth, LiveJournal, Wattpad, other social media platforms or personal blogs are accepted.

If you feel more comfortable having your work published anonymously or under a pseudonym, let us know in your e-mail. However, you will still be required to send in a short bio, for us to get a little idea about who you are, but we won’t be making that information public.

We usually try to get back to everyone within 2 months, but sometimes life does get in the way. If you haven’t heard back from us even after 3 months, please feel free to nudge us!