MSWL: OFIC’s Manuscript Wishlist

Issue #9: Submissions are open Jan. 1, 2024 to June 30, 2024.

Amber (Managing Editor) Wants to See:

  • gothic/erotic horror

  • more a/b/o and/or werewolves!!

  • student/teacher romances

  • sexy fairytale re-imaginings

  • dystopian fiction

  • smutty mythology

Anna (Art Director) Wants to See:

  • monsterfucking with feelings

  • modern witchcraft 

  • insightful deep dives into fandom phenoms

  • characters that live in haunted houses

  • meetcutes that go terribly wrong

  • minimum wage realness

  • explorations of religious trauma

Beth (EIC) Wants to See:

  • personal essays

  • long short stories with steady momentum and a big payoff

  • interpersonal conflict where no one is clearly right or wrong

  • wolves, wolf boys, werewolves

  • neurodivergent character studies

  • unrepentant fluff with psychological nuance

  • any kind of narrative or structural experimentation (non-chronology, second person, indirect discourse, etc.)

  • post-war narratives (the war itself can be real or fictional)

  • well-researched historical fiction

  • romantic tragedies where love isn’t enough

  • glaringly submissive male characters