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Individual Submissions:

TEMPORARILY CLOSED

(We are temporarily closed to all submissions until early 2026! Due to the volume of work we’ve received in 2025, we need to catch up on responding to all of your wonderful writers. Thank you for your patience! Submission guidelines below are for future reference.)

Please submit previously unpublished writing on mental illness, neurodivergence, and suicide prevention. We want to read original work from the author’s perspective. This means only submit work that reflects your own lived experience. Absolutely no use of artificial intelligence in generating the writing is allowed. Posthumous submissions are considered if the submitter retains the rights to the work. Please submit up to three poems or one prose piece, in the body of the email or attached as a .doc or .docx.

Limit poetry to 25 lines and prose to under 1,000 words. (We sometimes make exceptions for longer pieces). Include a short, third person biography. If accepted, we’ll need an author photo to include in publication and use for promotion of your work on social media.

We are currently responding to submissions within four weeks. If we do not reply within two months, please feel free to query in the same email thread.

If rejected, please wait a month before you submit again. If accepted, please wait a year before submitting once more.

Serotonin acquires first publication rights online and retains the right to publish in print anthologies. Authors retain rights to their work and do not need permission to publish elsewhere. Unfortunately we no longer pay for individual pieces, and now only pay authors for full manuscripts.

The use of artificial intelligence for any purpose will result in an instant rejection. All submissions are checked for artificial intelligence. We do not tolerate prejudice of any kind. We despise plagiarism. 

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS: TEMPORARILY CLOSED

Please submit .doc/.docx attachments via email. We are looking for poetry and prose manuscripts between 80-240 pages. We are looking for work that is original content written from the author’s perspective on their own mental illness. Poetry/prose hybrids welcome as well as creative non-fiction. Fiction may be considered if it is done with proper perspective but most will probably be rejected outright due to the difficult nature of approaching the subject. Manuscripts must be properly formatted with the awareness that unconventional formatting and structure may not translate well to the page. Authors will receive 50% of royalties and 20 author copies of their books. Please be aware that we are only publishing a few titles a year, so acceptance rates for book submissions will be much lower than our online individual publications. Please wait 3 months for a response before querying.

Send all submissions to: serotoninsubmissions@gmail.com