Submission Guidelines

Please submit your work using only .docx or PDF formats. Sumbissions should be emailed to thegeelongcereal@gmail.com.
Please submit your work in a 12pt serif font such as Times New Roman or Garamond. I strongly prefer reading Garamond!

Please be sure to include your name (or handle) and give your work a title.
Say hi in your email, and let us know what you've written! (You don't need to summarise it, just tell us something like: 'this is a short fantasy story', or 'this is a comedic piece of microfiction' etc).

You are welcome to include some pictures with your work, however it will not always be possible for us to publish them. If you include pictures they must be your own original art-work, or photographs taken by you, which do not depict anything that breaches privacy or copyright laws. We will be publishing a guide to copyright and privacy law for writers and artists in the coming months, so please keep an eye out for this.

We will not publish sexually explicit, excessively violent, highly inflammatory or anything we deem offensive content and reserve the right to refuse work that we deem innapropriate or unsuitable. The purpose of Geelong Cereal is to provide a warm, encouraging and fun place for writers and artists to publish their work. Adult themes, a bit of strong language etc are totally fine, just be sensible and remember we want to provide a welcoming and inclusive space.

Word Counts

For our purposes:

Microfiction is fiction below 300 words.

Flash Fiction is fiction below 1500 words.

Short fiction is fiction below 5,000 words.

Stories above 3,000 words will probably be serialised as a "mini series".

Anything greater than 5,000 words will automatically be considered a serial and you will be asked to divide it clearly into installments before we can publish it.

Editorials or interest pieces should be between 500-2000 words.

We will aim to respond to all submissions as soon as we can but sometimes there may be delays. Please wait 14 days before reaching out.