Length and Quality
Essays can be from 500 to 2500 words in length but the moocat heavily favours those no longer than about 1000 words. If your essay is longer than 1000 words, please include the word count in your submission (it helps me with doing the layout).

Clichés are inherently evil and must be destroyed. So please don't use them, unless you're doing it intentionally to somehow comment on the cliché itself.

I'm interested in publishing essays on many themes, with the goal of taking the reader on a pleasant and unusual little mind-ride. I'm not interested in erotica for porn's sake or anything vituperative, mean-spirited, or rapturously religious. The moocat is a gentle cat.

Original works only. I'm willing to consider simultaneous submissions, but please check the simultaneous submission checkbox in your submission form. Only works sent in via the online submission form will be considered.

Copyright Considerations
Contributors retain copyright over their works after publication. The only form of payment I can offer is the knowledge that your work is being read by anonymous Internet users.

Other Stuff
I will only post material sent from contributors with a working e-mail address. If you have a compelling reason to not post a link to your e-mail address, please let me know, and I'll consider it. Submission to moocat.net is tantamount to permission to web-publish your material as submitted and to link to your email address.

I'll try to notify all submitters if their work is rejected (at least, until the incoming stream gets too torrential). I'll certainly notify contributors if I'd like to use their work, and will provide them with a cyber-"blueline" for a quick sanity-check before final publication.

Guidelines for Other Categories

I have read these guidelines and agree to abide by them.