Cosplayer: Aesthel | Photo: Emily Rey
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Thanks for your interest in Cosplay Realm Magazine! Here you can find all of the information on our upcoming themes, our full submission guidelines, and everything that you need to know to have your work featured in the magazine!
Please fully read through our submission guidelines before sending your work in to us.
Make sure that others involved with your shoot are also aware of the guidelines and give their consent to publication.
Scroll down to the bottom of this page to see what themes we have coming up that you can be featured in!
Please send all submissions to our submission email at cosplayrealmmagazine@gmail.com
Contribution Guidelines:
(Full legal Terms and Conditions can be found at the bottom of this page)
Check in with your creative team before submitting.
Written and or digital permission to submit from both parties of cosplay model and photographer (depending on which party is submitting) via screen shot or photography release for publication is REQUIRED.
Please read FULLY through our entire submission page. If certain requirements are not met with your submission we cannot publish it, no matter how much we may like your photos.
Characters may be original designs or canon compliant.
If you would like the chance to be shared on the Cosplay Realm social media, please do not delete your shared files after the issue is released!
You may submit your work to any of the upcoming magazine themes as long as it is before the submission deadline noted for that particular theme.
All accepted submissions will receive a digital tearsheet within 48 hours after a magazine’s release.
*Please be aware that we CANNOT edit tear-sheets or the magazine after the issue release.*
BY SUBMITTING YOUR WORK TO COSPLAY REALM MAGAZINE YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY COSPLAY REALM MAGAZINE FOR ALL COSTS INCURRED BY COSPLAY REALM AS A RESULT OF PUBLISHING AND OR POSTING BASED UPON PROVIDED INFORMATION.
(I.E. A cosplayer providing incorrect photographer credit information and the correct photographer pursuing legal action.)
Email Guidelines:
Please title your submission email subject with the month or theme that you are submitting work for.
A list of our upcoming themes may be found at the bottom of this page.
Please include information about the cosplay you are submitting (Character name, Series/Property name, etc.). Please include this information within the email itself.
Do not send a mix of different themes, models, photographers, etc in one submission.
You may submit multiple submissions. There is no limit to how many submissions you can send in to us.
Groups and shoots with multiple cosplayers may be sent in one email.
You may submit 1-10 images per submission.
Full shoots have a higher chance of a full spread.
We do not accept submissions transferred with WeTransfer or SmugMug as fetching files from those sources has proven troublesome in the past. Google Drive or Dropbox is preferred.
Write ups are optional but may be included with your submission.
If you would like to include a write up with your submission, please be sure to thoroughly read through our writing requirements on this page.
Credit Information:
We take crediting everyone involved in a shoot very seriously, but it is not our responsibility to correct misspelled credits emailed to us post the initial submission post issue release.
Errors in credit information cannot be edited after publication of the magazine. You must ensure that all credit information is correct and spelled correctly when it is sent to us.
Provide information for the whole creative team behind your submission.
(Cosplayer, photographer, prop commissioner, seamstress, wig stylist, etc) whatever is specifically applicable for your submission.
Do not include more than 2 links per person.
Ideally an Instagram or Facebook page, plus an official handle / name is preferred.
We do not require to know your real name for submissions. If you do not want to have real names published as part of your credit information, please do not include them when formatting the credit information for your submission.
Please ensure that all credit information is spelled and formatted correctly in your email, we will be copying the credit information exactly how you write it when you submit to us.
Example of a good way to credit your team in your email:
Cosplayer: [Alias]
[Instagram Username], [Twitter Username]
Photographer: [Alias]
[Instagram Username]
[Website]In this example the text is formatted cleanly and will be the best for us to work with!
Example of how you should NOT credit your team in your email:
“Here is my submission for the magazine. Cosplay is by me. My friend [username] took these photos for me.”
In this example we cannot copy the text directly to the spread because of how it is written.
Saying “Cosplay by me” is not sufficient crediting! Oftentimes we get emails where people forget to credit themselves! Please be sure to include your own usernames and information in your submission!
Image Requirements:
Files may be sent as JPEG and PNG format.
For file handling we suggest Dropbox or Google Drive. Copy and paste a sharelink in your email.
Please be sure to double check your link is correct when sending your email. Sometimes share links do not attach properly to the emails or links may only link to one image instead of the folder. Double check your link is accurate before sending your submission please!
Images submitted must be at least high resolution and quality files for print. We cannot print visibly pixelated images.
Some other types of images that we may not be able to print include images that:
Are too dark for print
Are blurry
Include some kind of copywritten content (please do not send edits with character side by sides unless the side by side is original art)
Minimum file size for submission is 1 MB 700 x 1050 pixels
This is the absolute minimum file size, we cannot print something smaller than this.
If you would like a better chance at a full page spread please send us the highest resolution images you can.
You may need to contact your photographer to get the highest resolution files to send to us.
High resolution images MUST be attached in your initial email to reduce back and forth’s via email.
If you send a visibly low resolution image it will be sorted into the reject folder immediately.
Articles and Write Ups:
We accept write ups along with submissions! If you would like to have some text with your photo in the magazine please include that in your email.
Write ups may be about:
Crafting or behind the scenes of a project
Why you have chosen a particular cosplay and what it means to you
A cosplay, photography, or convention story
Something based on the theme concept
And more!
Most anything goes! If you have an idea for something you want to write about with your cosplay submission please include it! Whatever you feel appropriate to include with your submission is welcome!
Please thoroughly read through all write ups before submitting them to us
Please be sure to check all spelling and grammar in your blurb before submitting to us
Write ups may have to be edited down due to size limitations in our print issues. Due to size limitations, not all write ups may be able to be included in our print issues. Please be aware of this when writing your blurb with your submission.
It is very helpful to us if you section out the write up in the formatting of your email. For example, just starting of off with the text “Blurb:” or “Write Up:” to signify that you would like to submit that writing as part of your submission.
Tear Sheets:
Digital Tear Sheets Are Provided
We send out tear sheets within the first 48 hours post release date of each issue.
You are allowed to post your tear sheet (s) on your websites and or social medias with proper tagging.
If you have not received your tear sheet after the 48 allotted hours please shoot us a follow up email!
Please do not send us emails regarding missing tear sheets until 48 hours have passed since the initial magazine release in order to give us the allotted time to send them all out.
We send each tear sheet out individually and require a certain amount of time to send them all through.
CRM is currently a print-on-demand magazine and does not offer complimentary copies.
We answer and sort submissions after the end of the submission period of the month.
Got something that would be perfect for one of the themes listed above? We want to see it!
Be sure to follow all of the outlined requirements and email your submission to us at cosplayrealmmagazine@gmail.com