Our Mission
Welcome to PentaCat Press, home of the quarterly $5 digital journal featuring short stories, poetry, prose, art, and more!
PentaCat Press was formed by writers and artists, so a great deal of our roots lie in rebelliousness against greedy publishing practices. We know how much work and passion goes into these pieces, how many hours of meticulous editing to find that perfect word or angle. To charge those who put in that work so that we might consider publishing it is a practice we find exploitative and detrimental to continued success in the arts. If your work is good, you should not have to pay someone to see that.
Our goal is to provide a platform to these talented artists who have worked hard and take pride in their creations, to spread the word and show that work to all of our readers. We want to stand behind those writers and support them, not simply profit off them.
So, here, at PentaCat Press, we have only two rules:
- We will not charge for submissions.
- We will publish the material we enjoy.
Be it a response to a prompt, a story you've been working on, some of your artwork or anything else, we hope you will consider sending it in for us to publish. We look forward to receiving your entries.
And if anyone out there shares our values (or enjoys reading fun and interesting stuff), consider signing up for our quarterly digital magazine. It helps us to keep this operation running and to continue providing support to our writers and artists.
Thank you for reading.