Literary Magazine Press · submission to print
Publish the school’s literary magazine: poems, prose, and art, laid out for a real print-ready book.
A literary magazine is a school’s showcase for student writing and art, and it deserves a real layout, not a photocopied packet. Literary Magazine Press is the desk where submissions come in, editors read and select, and a designer lays poems, short prose, and artwork into a print-ready book — on the same multi-surface publications editor that builds the school’s yearbook and newspaper, not a separate app to learn.
Free to start. Print runs are priced by the school, never below cost, and this page runs no checkout.
Submission to selection
A submission-to-selection workflow, then a print-ready layout for the book.
Credits from the real roster
Contributor credits build from the real staff roster, not a hand-kept list.
Priced by the school
Free to start; print runs are priced by the school, never below cost.
How a submission becomes a page
A student submits a poem, a piece of short prose, or artwork to the magazine’s submission queue. From there, the school’s editors read what has come in and select what moves forward — accept, decline, or hold for a revision pass — the same read-and-select rhythm a real literary magazine staff already runs, just off a shared desk instead of a stack of printouts.
An accepted piece does not go straight to print. Like every publication type on this platform, it passes through the adviser’s fail-closed approval gate before it can move into the layout stage — the engine will not let a piece into the print-ready spread without that gate clearing. What the editors selected and what the adviser has approved for the edition are not automatically the same thing, and the platform keeps that distinction rather than collapsing it.
The same publications editor that builds the yearbook and the newspaper
Once a piece clears the adviser gate, it is laid into the book on the same multi-surface publications editor that builds the school’s yearbook spreads and its newspaper pages — not a fourth, separate tool a school has to license and a staff has to learn on top of the others. A poem, a short story, and a piece of student art all sit on the same canvas, with the same typography and layout controls a spread designer already knows from the yearbook or the paper.
That matters for a small staff more than a large one: the student running layout for the lit mag this term may be the same student who lays out yearbook spreads next term, and the skills carry over because the tool does.
Contributor credits, built from the roster
A contributor’s credit line is drawn from the school’s own staff and student roster — the same one the platform already keeps for the yearbook and the newspaper — rather than a name someone retypes into a spreadsheet at deadline. Whether a piece’s credited name is printed follows the school’s own publication-consent setting, the same consent step the platform’s other publication types already use; this page does not assume a piece is always credited by name, and it does not describe that setting with any mechanics beyond what it plainly is: a consent step the school controls.
Student writing and art submitted to the magazine is never sold.
A gated online edition, not a page open to the whole web
The same pages that go to print export to a digital edition families can open — and it is gated to the school community, not posted open to the public web the way the school newspaper’s online edition is. A family reads the magazine; a search engine does not index it as a public page. That is a deliberate difference from the newspaper desk on the same platform, not an oversight.
How the money works, honestly
Literary Magazine Press is free to start. Print runs are priced by the school and never below cost — there is no separate price this page sets or discounts. This page describes that model plainly. It runs no checkout and takes no payment; a school’s actual print order is placed on its own terms.
Common questions
How does a piece move from submission to the printed book?
A student submits a poem, prose piece, or artwork to the submission queue. The school's editors read what came in and select what moves forward. An accepted piece then passes the adviser's fail-closed approval gate before it can enter the print-ready layout stage -- selection by the editors and approval by the adviser are kept as two distinct steps.
Is this a separate tool from the yearbook or the newspaper?
No. The literary magazine is laid out on the same multi-surface publications editor that builds the yearbook spreads and the newspaper pages -- one tool, three publication types, not a fourth app to license and learn.
Where do contributor credits come from?
From the school's own staff and student roster, the same one used for the yearbook and the newspaper -- not a hand-kept list retyped at deadline. Whether a credited name is printed follows the school's own publication-consent setting.
Is the digital edition open to the public, like a news site?
No. The same print pages export to a gated online edition families can open. It is gated to the school community, unlike the school newspaper's open public online edition on the same platform.
How much does it cost, and is there a checkout?
Literary Magazine Press is free to start. Print runs are priced by the school and never below cost. There is no checkout and no payment on this page; a school's print order is placed on its own terms.
Is submitted student writing or art ever sold?
No. Student writing and art submitted to the magazine is never sold.
How is this different from composition.software?
composition.software is the writing desk -- drafting, revising with tracked revision colors, and readability feedback -- for a piece before it is ever submitted anywhere. litmag.press picks up from there: the submission queue, the editors' read-and-select pass, the print-ready layout, and the gated family edition. Both ride the same underlying platform.
What this page is and is not claiming
Literary Magazine Press is a submission-to-selection workflow, a print-ready layout on the same multi-surface publications editor that builds the yearbook and the newspaper, contributor credits built from the real staff roster, and a gated online edition families can open — not a page posted open to the public web. Money is honest-off: free to start, print runs priced by the school and never below cost, and this page runs no checkout. Student writing and art submitted to the magazine is never sold. This is a for-profit vendor, not a charity, and nothing here is dressed up as a charitable gift. There are no invented submission counts, school counts, or testimonials here, and no competitor is named.