UPPERCASE welcomes everyone and all identities, ages, talents and abilities. We share an inclusive, positive and community-minded point of view. Everyone is welcome to explore our creative challenges and submit to the magazine—you don't have to be a professional artist or writer.

<aside> 📌 Authorship and originality

By submitting to UPPERCASE, you confirm that you are the creator and author of the work and that you are not infringing on anyone's copyrighted material.

You are allowing UPPERCASE to publish the work in print, digitally and on our website and in any related magazine productions and promotions.

There is no fee to submit to UPPERCASE magazine with the exception of the Surface Pattern Design Guide entries which occur every two years. (Next SPDG auditions will be late 2026.)

Open calls: If work is selected for publication in the open calls, no remuneration or free copies be provided due to the volume of submissions. Thank you.

Commissioned articles and artwork are always compensated.

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<aside> 📌 No AI-generated or AI-assisted art or writing

UPPERCASE has always uplifted the handmade, the crafted and the heartfelt in its quarterly print magazine: we respect, appreciate and promote original art and thought. With this in mind, UPPERCASE publishing inc wants to be clear about the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in its publications.

We will not publish any artwork that makes use of generative AI in whole or in part. We require that all written and visual commissions and submissions to UPPERCASE be made solely by the writer, artist, illustrator or photographer. This creation includes the rough ideation, brainstorming, initial sketches, or article outline stages, too. The use of ChatGPT or any other large language model to generate content or outlines or any aspect for any UPPERCASE articles, illustration or photography assignments will not be accepted.

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Submission Tips

• You can pitch your own work, propose an article about someone else or suggest a topic that you would like to research.
• Please make sure that your submission is suitable for UPPERCASE magazine. Be familiar with the magazine and its writing and visual style.
• Please do not submit the same idea multiple times. Please do not email about the status of your submission; you will be contacted if your work is suitable for publication. UPPERCASE is quarterly and sometimes we're planning issues a year in advance. Thanks for your patience.
• Please remember that you are submitting to a print magazine. ****You don't have to be a professional writer but good communications skills are very important. If your idea is excellent and/or your visual submission is amazing, we can pair you with one of our writers, we can interview you or find other ways to feature the idea or your talent.
• Please follow the specific instructions in the submission forms.
• Take your time to write and gather images before submitting.
• When submitting images, please do not have any watermarks on them. Do not submit photo collages—each image should be separate.

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