International contest (deadline November 1, 2024; open to secondary school students worldwide): Write a piece (a poem, story, dialogue, essay, letter or other written work) that has to do with one of these animals: bird, cat, bear, fish, horse. It may involve more than one kind of animal, but please be sure to indicate the main animal in the subject line. The piece may be about the animal, evoke the animal, or speak from the animal’s perspective. For this contest, the entry must be written in English. Winners will be featured in the Autumn 2024 issue of Folyosó and will receive a printed certificate.
Please email your submission to diana.senechal at vargaszolnok.hu as a Word attachment or Google doc. The subject line should read “Submission: [Animal name]” (for example: Submission: Bear). In the body of your email, please provide your name, school, supporting teacher (and email address), town or city, and country. Please be sure to read the “General Submission Information” below.
For indirect inspiration, here is some recommended poetry: “Evening Hawk” by Robert Penn Warren; the Jeffrey (cat) passage in Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart; “The Bear” by Ted Hughes; “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop; and “Kindness to Horses” (originally “Хорошее отношение к лошадям”) by Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Open Call (year-round, open to Varga students only): Send us your best writing, in English, in any form (poem, story, essay, dialogue, etc.)–and send us your art. Please read this entire page and the FAQ page for details. To submit a piece for consideration, please email it as an attachment (Word for writing, high-quality image file for photography and art) to diana.senechal at vargaszolnok.hu. In the subject line, please include the word “Submission.” Please be sure to give your piece a title. If we accept your work for publication in Folyosó, we will publish it in the following issue or the subsequent one.
Hungarian Feature (year-round, open to secondary school students who write in Hungarian): Please send us your best stories, essays, poems, or other work in Hungarian (to diana.senechal@vargaszolnok.hu, with “Hungarian submission” in the subject line). Only a few pieces will be chosen. If we accept your work for publication in Folyosó, we will publish it in the following issue or the subsequent one.
Art (year-round, open to Varga students): Please send us your art. It must be entirely original: that is, not a digital adaptation of an existing work. We will select a few pieces to showcase. The Folyosó website does not allow for extremely large files, so we may have to reduce the size somewhat. If we accept your work for publication in Folyosó, we will publish it in the following issue or the subsequent one.
General Submission Information
By submitting your work, you are attesting that is original, unpublished, and not AI-assisted. You may quote briefly from other works, but please credit them properly. If your work is original but closely based on another work, please note this in your cover letter or in the piece itself.
The editor strives to encourage writers but reject a piece for any reason. If it even seems like a ChatGPT piece, the editor will reject it. (To avoid having your piece sound ChatGPT-like, use your own ideas and words, avoiding forced rhymes and formulaic plots.)
Please note that if your submission is accepted, it will be published under your name (no pseudonyms or anonymous entries allowed). This is for three reasons. First, authors and artists in this journal should be willing to put their name to their work; this is a matter of both responsibility and pride. Second, this allows the journal to be taken seriously by others. Third, when you put your name to your work, you allow others to compliment it, comment on it, and ask questions about it.
We look forward to publishing exciting, moving, unusual, and thought-provoking pieces (in different styles, forms, and moods). If your piece is not accepted, please try again with another piece. If accepted, it may still need to go through some revision and editing before it is ready for publication. Any changes will be made in consultation with the author.
We look forward to reading your work!