AmbushArts.com is a quarterly online magazine of poetry, short stories, essays, photography, short film, visual art, and music. We are committed to promoting art that is informed by craft as well as experience and ask that you send only fully realized work. Please be honest with yourself before submitting; you may be able to save everyone valuable time.

We here at AmbushArts.com are not interested in becoming a quarterly cross-section of whatever finds its way into our e-mail. When we discover an artist whose work we admire, we’re interested in developing a relationship. We hope that many of the artists who appear in our issues will become regular contributors. In the interest of promoting careers over individual works of art, we solicit a considerable amount of our content. However, a percentage of each issue will be reserved for unsolicited work. It is also important to us that work is judged solely on merit. Therefore, all unsolicited works will be considered blindly. Artists’ names or any other identifying information may not appear anywhere on the work. Feel free to tell us all about who you are and where your work has appeared in the comments area of our online submission system, but the attached file must be entirely “clean.”

AmbushArts.com only accepts electronic submissions sent via our online submissions system. Any unsolicited work we receive at our personal or business e-mail addresses or in the mail will be discarded. We will not consider work that has already appeared in another publication, which includes both print and online journals, magazines, newspapers, and blogs. However, work that has appeared on a personal website, MySpace page, or online workshop/forum is OK. Musicians, we're willing to be a bit more lenient when it comes to music submissions. We only ask that the work be recorded or released within the last year; it doesn't matter where else on the web people can find it. Because we are artists ourselves, we gladly accept simultaneous submissions so long as you notify us immediately if any work we are considering is accepted by another publication. Multiple submissions, however, are not allowed. Please submit in only one medium at a time and wait until you receive a response before submitting other material.

We make every effort to respond to submissions as quickly as possible, but if you still haven’t heard back from us after six months, feel free to inquire about the status of your submission. Usually, the longer we hold onto a work, the more smitten we are with it. Because computers are not entirely trustworthy, we cannot accept responsibility for lost or damaged submissions. AmbushArts.com acquires one-time Internet rights for all works we publish. Works are also archived online. All other rights revert to the artist. At this time, AmbushArts.com is not able to offer financial compensation for work published in the magazine.

POETRY GUIDELINES

Send three to five poems in a single attached file. MS Word and PDF are the only acceptable formats. If you would like to convert your file to PDF and don't know how, click here.

FICTION GUIDELINES

Send one story or self-contained novel excerpt at a time. All work should be under 10,000 words and submitted in a single attached file. MS Word and PDF are the only acceptable formats. If you would like to convert your file to PDF and don't know how, click here.

NON-FICTION GUIDELINES

Send one essay at a time. Keep in mind we are looking for art, not journalism. All work should be under 10,000 words and submitted in a single attached file. MS Word and PDF are the only acceptable formats. If you would like to convert your file to PDF and don't know how, click here.

PHOTOGRAPHY GUIDELINES

Send three to seven photos in .jpg, .gif, or .png format as one compressed file. Acceptable compressed file types are: .gz, .tar.gz, .Z, .rar, and .zip. If you are unfamiliar with file compression, click here to learn how to do it.

SHORT FILM GUIDELINES

Send one short film (no longer than twelve minutes) in .wmv, .mpg, or .avi format as a single attached file. Try to keep file sizes to a minimum. Acceptable compressed file types are: .gz, .tar.gz, .Z, .rar, and .zip. If you are unfamiliar with file compression, click here to learn how to do it.

VISUAL ART GUIDELINES

Send three to seven works of visual art in .jpg, .gif, or .png format as one compressed file. Acceptable compressed file types are: .gz, .tar.gz, .Z, .rar, and .zip. If you are unfamiliar with file compression, click here to learn how to do it.

MUSIC GUIDELINES

Send one to three recordings in .mp3 format as one compressed file. Acceptable compressed file types are: .gz, .tar.gz, .Z, .rar, and .zip. If only submitting one recording, feel free to leave it in .mp3 format. Try to keep file sizes to a minimum. Also, our focus is on music; there are plenty of other places people can go to get words. Lyrics of any kind are not allowed. However, we are not opposed to the human voice as an instrument. Submissions must be original. No jazz standards or cover tunes, no matter how inventive the arrangement. Other than that, we are open to anything. Surprise us. If you are unfamiliar with file compression, click here to learn how to do it.