Submissions open
Deadline is midnight 20th Oct 2026
We warmly welcome submissions from the community for inclusion into our magazine in response to the theme “A / My / Our Radical Future”.
We welcome submissions in the form of essays, short stories, interviews, poetry, audio / visual, photography, and illustrations / comics.
We are looking for contributors who identify themselves as being under represented, misrepresented and living in the margins. The reasons for this can be based on age, gender, social situation, economic background, cultural background, visible or in-visible disability and more.
The final magazine will be available in February 2027 in advance of the ‘Wild Ones Conference in March 2027’.
We’re extremely privileged to welcome Catriona Reid as our Managing Editor for this call.
The prompts
For inspiration, we have chosen a selection of articles which were published in the first cycle of Good Day News. Please view them here: https://canva.link/x7wvcfx2q44c80c
Issue 1: The Rebirth of our Communities: Cork’s Anti Water Charges Campaign by Rachael O’Sullivan
Issue 2: Mná na hÉireann by Roos Demol
Issue 3: Students Stand Up To Get Their Voices Heard by Cailean Coffey
Issue 4: Eighteen by Jessica O’Brien
You must use either of these articles as prompts to discuss “A / My / Our Radical Future” in your chosen submission(s).
What can I submit?
- Prose (fiction, non-fiction, essays): up to 3,000 words
- Poetry: max 40 lines, max 2 poems per submission (one will be selected)
- Photography: maximum 2 photographs
- Video: min 90 seconds, max 4 minutes. It must have subtitles in English, font size 12.
- Audio (interviews, music, field recordings, podcast, poetry, vox pop): min 90 seconds, max 4 minutes. Please submit with transcript.
- Illustrations / comic strips: max one A4 page or 4-6 boxes in a comic strip to fit comfortably on A4 page with easy to read font type and font size.
Further guidelines:
Please take your time to read all the guidelines carefully for your consideration. If you need a clarification, please do not hesitate to email: features.gooddaycork[@]gmail.com
- You must be 18+ to submit.
- Submissions must be your own, original work – use of AI to create your submisison is not allowed. Using software to generate subtitles and transcript is accepted.
- There is no fee to submit, however we are unfortunately not in a position to offer an honorarium to successful submissions.
- You will be required to submit a bio or an artist statement when you make the submission using the Google form
- You can send no more than two submissions.
- You are allowed to submit to multiple formats, but only two submissions are allowed in total.Refer to above guideline.
- If your two pieces are related (e.g. a poem about your dog with a photo of your dog, it will be considered together). However, if your two pieces are unrelated, they will be considered separately.
- Videos without subtitles will not be accepted.
- Video submissions must be given through a link – e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, or Google Drive.
- Audio without transcript will not be accepted.
- Previously published work will be considered – please describe where it was previously published and ensure you have permission.
- Most importantly: do justice to your chosen format.
