Pitch your work

Rocky Street Press publishes any kind of creativity that’ll stick to a web page: fiction, poetry, visual art, photography, short films, music, spoken word audio, and non-fiction articles on arts related topics. 

Pitches are welcome from people living right across regional and rural Australia. Contributors from the Central Queensland region get first preference - that’s roughly the area from Mackay to Bundaberg and west to the Gemfields.  We welcome works by First Nations writers and artists in any medium.

Please note Rocky Street Press is currently unable to pay contributors.

Ready to pitch your work? Drop us a line at rockystreetpress [at] gmail.com!

Here’s the fine print:

  • Short fiction: up to 1500 words, extracts from longer works welcome if they work as a standalone piece.

  • Poetry: up to 20 lines, multiple submissions welcome.

  • Visual art and photography: up to five images, or links to images on Instagram, Flickr or a similar hosting service which we can embed into a post.

  • Short films: documentary or fiction welcome. Please supply a link to the film on Youtube, Vimeo, or a similar hosting service. Teasers and extracts from longer films welcome. We’re generally looking for films up to four minutes long, but this is a guideline rather than a hard rule.

  • Music & spoken word audio: please supply a link to the track(s) on Soundcloud, Youtube, or a similar hosting service. We’re generally looking for tracks up to four minutes long, but this is a guideline rather than a hard rule.

  • Nonfiction: up to 1500 words, longer pieces may be split across multiple posts. Images to accompany stories welcome: if you didn’t take the photo yourself, please ensure you have the copyright owner’s permission to use it, and permission from everyone in the photo.

  • By sending your work to us you agree there are no other publication agreements in place which may affect our ability to publish the piece. 

  • We don’t have any specific formatting requirements, just keep it clean and simple and use one of the common file types.

  • We buy non-exclusive single-use rights to your work. That means you still own the copyright and you’re still free to sell or publish it elsewhere, and we agree we’ll only publish it once, here on the website.

  • Absolutely no AI generated content.

Here are the things we don't cover at Rocky Street Press:

  • Sport

  • Politics, unless it's specifically related to the arts such as regional arts policy

  • Crime, police, court and legal issues

  • Non-locally-owned businesses, including any form of MLM or pyramid scheme

  • Anything explicitly sexual, violent or gory

  • Gross out, cringe or toilet humour

  • Hate speech, and any like material that is objectionable or in bad taste (the editor’s decision is final)

  • Defamation, or material which may be legally problematic.