All Princeton University affiliates (current and alumni undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff) are encouraged to submit to figments, Princeton’s premier speculative fiction publication. We publish two issues a year near the close of each academic semester, in print and on our website.
We are currently accepting submissions for our fall 2026 issue, with the optional theme “Fuse.” The deadline for submissions is October 25. Send us your work though the fall 2026 submission form.
What We Want:
We’re looking for imaginative, high-quality storytelling and/or analysis in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres: anything not quite of this world.
Magazine Submission Guidelines
- We can only accept submissions from affiliates of Princeton University.
- Your submissions should be speculative in nature. Any of the following are accepted: original fiction, poetry, artwork, comics/graphic narratives, genre-related essays/articles, or other creative content.
- Format text submissions as a Google Doc or Word Document in Times New Roman 12 pt font (double-spaced), and image submissions as a high-quality JPEG or PNG file.
- We read blind, so do not include identifying information in your submission or document title. Additionally, please include a list of content warnings at the top of your piece for potentially disturbing content (such as graphic descriptions of gore, sexual violence, or familial abuse). This is to protect our editors and ensure they are matched with pieces that they feel comfortable reading!
- Submitted pieces should be previously unpublished, though works previously included in high school literary magazines or personal blogs are acceptable.
- All art submissions will be printed in black and white, but they will be uploaded in color to the online version of the magazine.
- When submissions are open, look out for an issue-specific submission form sent through club-affiliated emails and Princeton listservs.
Questions about magazine submissions or joining the figments staff can be sent to the editor-in-chief at ob9873@princeton.edu.