Attention: Pond Ripples is no longer taking submissions. Thank you.

Please Read Before Submitting!

General information

• Pond Ripples is no longer a paying market.
• Pond Ripples requires one time online use rights. The ownership of the piece remains with the author or creator.
• Pond Ripples will consider previously published work as long as the author or creator retains rights to the work.

All Submissions

• Must include a short bio. Your bio may include your website and email address. You may also include a head shot photograph of yourself.
• Must be family friendly, but not necessarily child oriented
• Must be proofread before submission
• Can come from authors, artists, and photographers of all ages and backgrounds
  • For Those Under Eighteen
    • You must have parent or guardian permission.
    • You must create a pen name.
    • You cannot leave your contact information in your bio, but I will forward compliments of your work to you.
• All submissions and bios should be typed in an easily readable font such at Times New Romans with reasonable margins and spacing.
• Include your name, address, phone number, and email address at the top of each submission.
• All snail mail submissions must include a SASE for my response.
• When submitting through email, send text submissions in the body of the email. You may attach art and photographs as a .jpg file.
• Do not send more than two submissions at once. Await my response before sending more.
• Do not send me your only copy!

Poetry and Short Story Submissions

• No profanity
• Short Stories must be 2,500 words or less. Longer submissions will not be considered.
• Poetry must be twenty-five lines or shorter.

Art and photographs

• God made the human body, but I will not publish nudity. Don’t send it!
• No excessive violence.

Send Submissions

By snail mail to

Rebecca Burgener, editor
Pond Ripples Magazine
P. O. Box 12308
Knoxville, TN 37912

Or electronically

RebeccaBurgener@gmail.com with “Pond Ripples Submission” in the subject line