Get Involved
Want to see your work in Irregular Magazine?
Deadline for submissions is: February 28th
We’re currently looking for: Swashbuckling, action/adventure content
It’s really easy to get involved, find out how you can be part of the team below:
Tutorials
Step by step tutorials are by far the easiest to follow, but this does mean you need to provide photographs of each step as well as the written content. Team up with a friend to take the photographs if you need to.
As a rough guide, tutorials are between 2-3 pages long when they are laid out, so approx 1000 words.
The instructions should be easy to follow, no matter what level of expertise is required for the tutorial; beginner, intermediate, advanced or expert; but please let us know who it is aimed at.
Photographs should be in focus, and preferably against a plain, white background, but we understand that’s not always possible. Please supply them in jpg format, with minimal compression (100% quality), and at 300dpi.
If you’re not sure, why not send us a test file early on?
This should be your own work, and if it has been published elsewhere we will need written permission to use the piece.
Please avoid using quotations from copyrighted works – unless you have written permission to include them.
Contact the team directly by emailing: irregularmagazine@gmail.com
Articles
Covering a huge range of subjects and games, there is a lot of scope to writing articles. The magazine currently covers RPG, wargames and now CCG – but if you think that could be expanded upon, we’d be interested to hear from you.
Ideally articles are 2000 words in length, and illustrated with artwork and/or photographs.
Let us know in advance if you are planning to write a piece that will require artwork.
Please make sure acronyms are explained fully the first time they are used, and make sure that your article can be understood by someone not fully experienced with the game.
All writing should be your own work, and if it has been published elsewhere we will need written permission to use the piece.
Please avoid using quotations from copyrighted works – unless you have written permission to include them in your article.
Contact the team directly by emailing: irregularmagazine@gmail.com
Short stories
We’re always looking for original, and inventive stories to inspire our readers.
Stories should be 1500 words in length, which will cover 2-3 pages of the magazine.
Extreme violence should be avoided, and swearing should be replaced with creative alternatives!
There are some great resources to help budding writers online, make sure your work is at its best to really showcase your talent.
All writing should be your own work, and if it has been published elsewhere we will need written permission to use the piece. We’d much prefer to have an exclusive story for the magazine.
Please avoid using quotations from copyrighted works, or using characters, locations or other registered elements – unless you have written permission to include them in your story.
Personally, we’d prefer to have an original piece.
Contact the team directly by emailing: irregularmagazine@gmail.com
Artwork
Every issue, we need lots of artwork to illustrate various articles, as well as a fantastic cover.
Please let us know if you are interested in supplying artwork, as the editors can give you a clear idea of what they are specifically looking for. Examples of previous work will help give them a sense of what would suit you best.
Artwork can be colour, grey-scale or black and white line art and and supplied as jpg files with minimal compression (100% quality) at a minimum 300 dpi.
All pieces should be your own work, and if they have been published elsewhere we will need written permission to use them.
Please avoid using copyrighted characters, symbols, or other registered imagery in your work – unless you have written permission to do so.
If you are interested in being a cover artist, please be warned there is already a queue, but we would be delighted to hear from you and see examples of you work.
Contact the team directly by emailing: irregularmagazine@gmail.com
Photography
Think beyond just photos of games in action and close ups of miniatures (although we want those too), we’re interested in photos to illustrate background articles as well. Photographs of re-enactment, weapons and beautiful vistas are on our wish list.
Photographs should be supplied as jpg files with minimal compression (100% quality) at a minimum 300 dpi.
All pieces should be your own work, and if they have been published elsewhere we will need written permission to use them.
Always make sure you have permission to photograph your subject/s.
If possible, take photos of miniatures against a plain, white background.
We would prefer photographs to be in colour, and supplied as separate files, rather than montages.
Contact the team directly by emailing: irregularmagazine@gmail.com
