Written Guidelines
The Bygone Bureau accepts unsolicited article submissions. To submit, email your piece to submissions@bygonebureau.com.
Please attach submissions in Word or Pages document format, accompanied with a brief abstract and short bio of the author in the body of the email. If you submit more than one article, please send a separate email for each.
We only publish original pieces. Also, let us know if you’re currently submitting it elsewhere. We try to turn submissions around in a week. If you haven’t heard from us after a week, feel free to nudge politely. If your submission is accepted, you retain the rights to your work.
What we like: essays about our changing relationship with technology and culture; opinion pieces with a strong personal connection; observational, vignette-style event coverage; travel narratives about misadventures abroad; absurdist humor pieces that are as funny as they are strange; any other creative way to tell a story.
What we like, but don’t run: fiction, reviews, lists, satirical faux news stories (The Onion does it best)
Illustrations
If you are interested in illustrating, please send a link to your blog or portfolio or samples of your work in jpeg format to art@bygonebureau.com. If selected, you will be considered to illustrate upcoming and future articles based on your availability and agreement. We love to feature a wide variety of styles and mediums, and give illustrators a great degree of creative freedom.
Visual Essays
We’re interested in featuring different forms of visual storytelling. Comics and other illustrated narratives are welcomed. We do not publish purely fictional work, but don’t hesitate to bring us your new and strange takes on reality. Please send any submissions, proposals or questions to art@bygonebureau.com.