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Submissions
Open Call
The Toe Rag’s next issue will be published in October 2026. The theme is FICTIONS.
The submission window is 11–26th May 2026.
What We Publish
The Toe Rag publishes formally ambitious non-fiction, fiction, poetry and artworks. The magazine is concerned with contemporary culture, particularly visual art, performance, politics, philosophy and literature. We favour work that is intellectually rigorous and stylistically controlled. We recommend reading past writing in the magazine before submitting.
We accept proposals of up to 300 words and full essays of up to 3,000 words. Proposals should clearly indicate structure, content and intended word count and must be accompanied by at least one writing sample, published or unpublished. For poetry, please do not send more than five poems. For fiction, we accept stories of up to 4,000 words. For arts and book reviews, please send an expression of interest with a writing sample.
All submissions should be sent to hello@thetoerag.com, along with a short bio. Due to the high volume of proposals we receive, we can unfortunately only respond to successful submissions.
We look forward to reading your submissions.