Aorta loves your submissions!

If you are a visual, literary, or performance artist and are interested in being featured in an upcoming issue, please carefully read and follow the submission guidelines:

Writing Submissions
Aorta is interested in publishing the following types of writing (& more!):

-analytic essays on feminist/ queer/ gender and art theory and all the intersections between them
-creative reviews and responses to art
-fiction, prose, poetry, and creative non-fiction

* please include writing submission in the subject field

Submit works up to 4,000 words or up to 5 poems. Excerpts from longer pieces are also accepted.

All work should be edited and pasted into the body of an email and sent to submissions@aortamagazine.com
Please include a short, 3-5 sentence bio and your contact information.
If applicable please include your website, and any information regarding the previous or future publishing of the submitted piece.

Visual Art/Performance/Film:
All visual art submissions should include:
a link to or attachments of 5 – 10 images of your work
an artist’s statement and description of your work
a short, 3 – 5 sentence bio and your contact information

* please write visual submission in the subject field

You may send an email to submissions@aortamagazine.com or a CD/DVD to

Aorta Magazine
PO Box 22474
Oakland CA 94110

*please send a SASE if you’d like your material returned