Quarks Post Office

Your quiet talent now has
a mailing address. Post it.

Need a place to send your story, the song you hummed in the shower, the doodle you made on the back of a notebook, or just something you want to get off your chest? Quarks is a place for it. No pitch, no committee, only creativity is needed. Give the piece a title, attach the file, and we will showcase it for you. You can be an anonymous sender.

Story

Anything told in prose — fiction, essays, opinion, rants, reviews, travelogues.

Poem

Verse of any length, in any language.

Picture & art

Photos, doodles, illustration, design, comics.

Crossword & puzzle

A whole mini, a single stubborn clue, or anything that can stump the campus.

News & tips

Something that happened, or should have been announced and wasn't.

Idea & suggestion

A column we should run, a section we don't have, a thing you'd like to exist.

and if it fits none of these, send it anyway — that is usually the good stuff

About staying anonymous

Only the name of the piece and the file itself are required. Leave the rest blank and your submission reaches us with nothing attached to it but the work. If you do give us a name, we will publish it alongside your piece.

Notice!

If your piece contains inappropriate content which we can't publish or we face other issues, we will write to you and ask. If you posted anonymously or the contact details are wrong, then we may not publish the content.

The piece

Required
A working title is fine. So is “untitled”. Give the piece a name so we know what to call it.
Attach a file — that's the one thing we can't do without.

About you

Optional

Leave all three blank to stay anonymous. We will ask for all three details compulsarily in case you fill them.

Add your name too, or clear this section to stay anonymous.
That email doesn't look right — fix it or clear this section.
Add where you're writing from too, or clear this section to stay anonymous.

Anything else

Optional

Goes straight to the Quarks inbox. Nothing is published automatically — the Quarks team reads everything first.

Rather not use a form? Write to quarks.ug@iisc.ac.in yourself, any time, about anything — this page exists only to make your submissions anonymous.