Submissions

G5A imprint encourages contributions from writers and artists across all mediums of contemporary art.
We believe great stories are everywhere, and we can’t wait to share them, uncensored. 

Do go through our submission guidelines before submitting a piece to us:

  • We only accept original and previously unpublished work. This includes print or digital publication (including social media). However, the work need not be new, we are open to labours of love that remain unpublished, waiting for the right home.
  • We accept submissions across 4 broad sections, viz., Text, Image, Sound, and Video.
    • Text: we publish diverse formats – essays (long/short form), opinion pieces, poetry, fiction, scripts, non-fiction, and more.
    • Image: we publish photo essays, visual art, illustrations, and more. Submissions must include a concept note which offers an insight or narrative of the piece.
    • Sound: we publish explorations in sound – this includes soundscapes, sound experiments, playlists, and more.
    • Video: we publish explorations in video – this includes short pieces of film, animation, stop motion, and more.
  • We encourage submissions in diverse languages, however the time required to review these pieces will be dependent on the language in question.
  • To familiarize yourself with our sections and the work we do, please see our previously published pieces.
  • All contributors to G5A imprint will be duly compensated. 

We only accept submissions through the form below and will only accept one submission per person, at the moment. The first one received will be considered.

Please note that while we read every submission, we are unable to respond to each one.

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editor's note

Volume 09

clay | chlorophyll | crimson

Grass is green where you water it. LC’s words float along over Misch’s guitar. It’s a phrase that feels so obvious, and I’m sure those who tend to gardens know this more than most, but it seems to land more than before. The impact noticeable, memorable, echoing through my being. Perhaps we’re ingrained to think it’s greener elsewhere. This patch is the problem and not whether we’re watering it. The key is in the watering. How we go about this practice is what defines our patch of grass. No matter where we go, our patch is, perhaps, the same. Some attributes and characteristics have been changed but the essence is the same: Us.

Stepping into Volume 09 of imprint, marks our third year. I am learning that this patch of green that we have been tending to for the last several years will mould, shift, and sculpt. This depends on how we water it and allow it to take its own shape. It has already happened in wonderfully unexpected ways. There is only so much structure or shape we can predetermine. Beyond that, it will absorb what it needs and reject all that is unnecessary. And perhaps, in this practice, we are changed. Our grass is watered as we water that of our writing, our image making, our practice, our magazine.

From light to dark, rigid to supple, new to old, there is so much in between that is bright and vibrant and unexpected. The practice of our magazine has focused on being open to what we receive; being open to deeply listening to what is shared; being open to work taking us to new journeys. This volume, and this year, will be no different. We will continue tending to it as we have done, learning along the way, from past seasons and present ones.

And yet, I know it will be entirely different.
But still.
It will be watered.