Audio Submission Guidelines

Roses & Wildflowers accepts well-produced audio submissions. We will feature one audio submission in each issue. 

Primary criteria: mythopoetics and speculative fiction in all of its forms.

We will accept:

• Relevant original musical offerings or a new imagining of traditional story-songs, such as ancient works, ballads, or troubadour-era compositions. You must own all rights, covers are not accepted.
• Length: a multi-versed ballad, yes, a full symphony or opera, probably not. 
• Oral Storytelling. Your original poetic or short fiction performance. 
• We are not looking for a poem or story read into a microphone, but examples of the art of storytelling. Storytelling is an ancient artform and we will be looking for submissions that are superlative performances of the art. 
• “Theatre of the Mind” radio-style audio plays. 
• We love them. Send us your best. 
• Experimental myth-based works

As with all submissions to Roses and wildflowers we are not interested in depictions of graphic violence or sexual content, allegory, or content that denigrates anyone based upon age, gender, orientation, ethnicity, beliefs, or race. 

Live performance is accepted, however, be mindful of the clarity of the audio. 

Please send a query regarding your project addressing these questions to [email protected].

• Is your submission a musical composition, poetry or storytelling performance, or an audio-play?
• Length of your submission? (Rule of thumb: 3 to 5 minutes for a song or poetry performance, up to 10 minutes for a story, 20 -30 minutes for an audio-play.)
• Who owns the rights to your submission and do you have, or can you provide, all permissions for use?
• Is there accompanying artwork or prose narrative?

Please provide all performance and production credits along with all permissions for use.  

If we choose to review your submission, we will ask you to provide an mp3 of your submission using dropbox. 

You may also provide a private link to vimeo or bandcamp rather than dropbox.

While we do not fund projects, we do provide payment for publishing your work on the same basis as the artworks published in Roses & Wildflowers each issue. 

All copy and performance rights remain with the artists. 

Payment is provided upon acceptance. 

We do not, at this time, accept video.