The Mag, the people, and how to submit your work.
Mindfork is an indie literary magazine that flaunts divergence. We publish the dark, dream-like, and delirious voices who eat disobedience for dessert. We have a focus on uplifting voices that are queer, neurodivergent and/or female.
We serve:
Essays on life, work, and travel that’ll silence a room, and bite the lip.
Short fiction with teeth and a craving for bite-sized nightmares.
Poetry aperitifs that burst on the tongue and cleanse the bland.
Scroll down for submission guidelines ;) WE ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED FOR SUBMISSIONS
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We invite you to savour the weirdness, nourish the mind, and keep the fork.
What’s in the Mag
Memoir
Life Essays
Powerful memoir pieces exploring the mind, relationships, immigration, sexuality, and society.
The essays explore messy relationships, mind-bending epiphanies, and question the status quo of the world we live in. Unique perspectives that provide a lens into living a fulfilled life.
Career Essays
True stories that change the way we see and do work. Escape the corporate drudgery, and thrive without sacrificing individuality.
Travel Essays
Travel to the lesser-known corners of the world where authors adventure to find themselves as they come across surprising, life-changing events in unexpected places.
Fiction
Escape the chains of everyday life, and find new lenses through which to view our society. Mindfork’s short fiction pieces have a psychological focus, often touching on sci-fi, fantasy, and horror.
Poetry
The ultimate sensory experience from new and seasoned contemporary poets, navigating love, sexuality, secrets, grief, gender, neurodivergence, creative process, and food.
What you get as a subscriber
As a free subscriber, you’ll receive our monthly newsletter along with essays, poems, and fiction from our contributors. If you’re submitting work, your submissions will be prioritised.
As a paid subscriber, you’ll get access to Mindfork’s best essays, poems and fiction. Additionally, you will receive discounts on workshops and merch (mugs, stickers, pins), and access to the online edition of The Best of Mindfork, an annual issue featuring the best pieces from our online magazine.
As a founding member, you’ll get the annual print version of The Best of Mindfork, and your name will be published on the back of the magazine. That’s on top of all the perks of a paid sub!
Submissions
Closed for now, but check out our Chill Subs page for more info ;)
Rules
Rule #1: AI is the worst. Don't use it in any submissions. If we wanted a digital tech bro's story spawn, we'd prompt ChatGPT ourselves. We are looking for human vibes.
Rule #2: Don’t be mean.
Rule #3: Please read our magazine before submitting to avoid disappointment.
Publication and payment
£15 per published memoir or fiction piece, £5 per poem.
Each published submission has the opportunity to be in the best of Mindfork print edition.
The best of Mindfork is published in a print edition which is included in the Founder’s subscription.
Meet the Editors
Alexandra M. Gilbert - Founder & Editor
Alexandra is a sci-fi fiction author and poet based in London. Inspired by her MSc Neuroscience (UCL), she started Mindfork as a means of exploring the mind through obscure means.
Her fiction is published in podcasts and indie lit mags in support of developing publications.
She is a member of the Poetry Society, and does frequent poetry open mics across the city. Her poetry was longlisted for the Passionfruit Poetry Prize, published in Verbal Discharge magazine by Insurgent Press, as well as other magazines.
Victoria Bassett-Wilton - Marketing Director & Fiction Editor
Victoria is a writer from Australia and strongly believes in the power of art and literature as a cornerstorne of humanity.
She holds a Bachelor of Communications, Journalism from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and is working towards her Masters in Creative Writing. She was awarded Penguin Australia’s Write It Fellowship for her novel ‘ESTHER’, and worked with Penguin’s editors on ESTHER over the course of 2024.
She has two novellas, ROSE (fiction drama) and CEMENT COCOON (murder mystery), published by the Story Factory, and has also had a collection of poetry published by ‘The Comma’. She was nominated for a JERAA Ossie Awards Best Text-based story (over 750 words) for her article on sex work, and frequently participates in open mics and literary workshops in London and Europe. Victoria is currently working on a new novel.
