Send IN your creation - submit Aussie kids' art, writing, photos and more to theINmag.

A grown-up needs to fill this in with you. They're the one giving permission for your creation to be considered for the mag.

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Got questions before you send IN?

theINmag drops three times a year - February, June, and October. Submissions are always open. Send yours in any time and we'll consider it for the next issue.

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We can't publish every creation - there are more incredible kids than there are pages. If yours doesn't make this issue, don't get discouraged - keep creating, making, and sharing it with the world.

  • Use a phone or iPad camera, not a laptop one - the photo will be way clearer.
  • Take it somewhere bright, with no shadows across your creation.
  • Save it as big as you can - small fuzzy pictures don't print well.
  • Make it yours - we only publish stuff kids made themselves.
  • Tell us about it - two or three sentences about how you made it makes it land.

Anything you're proud of. Writing, drawings, photos, jokes, facts, puzzles, songs, recipes, hobbies - even things you've built like shelters, veggie patches, sculptures, or a really great box.

By sending it IN, you inspire other kids - and you could see yourself in print.

Parent questions

  • Any Aussie kid up to age 16 - we've published creators as young as three. International kids are welcome too, we just only print and post within Australia.

  • You'll see a celebration screen. Then a real human reviews every submission - we never auto-publish anything. If your creation is selected for print and you provided a parent email on the form, we'll be in touch before the issue drops. (The parent email is optional, so we only contact families who chose to share it.)

  • There are more incredible kids than there are pages, so not every creation makes it into print. Every submission that doesn't make this issue still goes up in our gallery so other kids can see what you made. A couple of things help your chances next time: we always notice when a kid has put serious effort into a creation, and kids who send IN lots of different things across the year have more chances of being picked. Keep creating.

  • Kid safety is locked in across the whole process. We never collect contactable details from kids - only the parent on the form, and that's optional. We never publish full names, schools, addresses, contact info, or faces in photos. We follow proper Australian child-safety guidelines and protocols across every submission.

  • Yes - email heyhey@theinmag.com.au and we'll remove it from the website and gallery within 7 days. Print copies already shipped can't be recalled, but nothing future-facing stays up if you ask us to take it down.