We want to showcase your simp stories in our book, successful or not! Who’s been on your mind and what did you do about it? Accepting creative nonfiction mediums of any kind (hybrid and experimental forms encouraged!), including personal essays, lyric essays, lists, dream logs, journal entries, and anything else you can think of.

Email all submissions to simpalignment (at) gmail (dot) com.

Submission Guidelines:

  • Include your artist name, contact information (email & phone number), a third person bio, and any relevant information about your piece (optional) in the body of your email.

  • Include the simp alignment category for your story in the body of the email (sun simp, moon simp, shadow simp, or earth simp). This doesn’t have to be the category you most align with generally—but rather, the alignment that your specific story falls under.

  • Keep your submission to 5000 words or less (not a hard limit; exceptions can be made).

  • Times New Roman, 12pt font preferred. PDF and DOC/DOCX accepted.

Not sure what kind of stories would fall under each simp alignment? Look below for inspiration! But remember that the alignments are flexible and up for interpretation, so take these with a grain of salt.

Possible Sun Simp Stories:

  • The boldest thing you’ve ever done to ask someone on a date

  • How you and a partner overcame difficult circumstances in a relationship

  • Worst thing you've done to sabotage another relationship to be with a person

Possible Earth Simp Stories:

  • Breaking things off with someone when incompatibilities showed up, even though you loved them

  • An extensive checklist of what you look for in a partner

  • Crafting the most elaborate plan to find out who your crush's crush is before confessing your feelings

Possible Moon Simp Stories:

  • The one time you crushed on your coworker and didn't do anything about it

  • Overlooking that major red flag because you were just too enamored

  • The most unlikely crush you had on someone you knew you would never see again

Possible Shadow Simp Stories:

  • The one time you ghosted your crush because you were afraid of intimacy

  • Getting over a breakup quickly

  • The quickest turn off that killed a date