Since 1988, House Rabbit Society’s magazine, the House Rabbit Journal, has been educating and entertaining readers with professional-quality veterinary, educational, and creative articles that celebrate life with house rabbits. We accept inspiring or informative articles and thoughtful essays that support the HRS philosophy as well as original photography, artwork, and poetry.

Please carefully review the submission guidelines below before sending in your work. We also encourage you to browse past issues at houserabbit.org/journal to see the types of works we typically publish. 

Note: We take great pride in originality and human-authored submissions. Any submission found to have used or be generated by AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, etc.) will not be considered for publication. We also do not reprint previously published articles, including blog posts.  

Suggested Subjects

• Rabbit medicine (subject to veterinary review)

• New ideas in rabbit rescue/rabbit sheltering

• Discussion of rescue efforts and lessons learned

• Review of rabbit-related or veterinary books or articles written in the last 3 years (and not previously reviewed in the HRJ)

• Review of rabbit topics covered at veterinary or professional conferences

• Discussion of rabbit activism initiatives

• Rabbit care and behavior topics

• Rabbit-related how-to articles

• Rabbit-related topics with an educational message

Word Count, Formatting, and Images/Graphics

Articles usually vary in length between 600 and 1,500 words, depending on the topic and format. We accept Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) articles sent as email attachments, or invites to articles written in Google Docs that we can then download to Microsoft Word. Include the title of your piece, your name as you would like it credited, your relationship to House Rabbit Society (volunteer, donor, adopter, etc.), and your email address at the top of your submission. 

Please send photographs or original artwork to accompany your article, along with suggested captions. You may also submit stand-alone photographs or artwork, which we will pair with an article or feature in an upcoming issue. Images or artwork must be created by you, or, you must have permission to share them. It is also recommended to have a model release for any people in your photos. Photos must be sent in digital form at the largest size available as email attachments. Photographs that are out of focus, low in contrast, or very small may not be usable. Authors are expected to obtain permissions for any copyrighted material used prior to submission, including graphics, quotes, and tables.

Artwork and illustrations must be scanned and sent via email. Please include the name of the artist or photographer when submitting graphics and artwork so that we may give credit.

All submissions must come via email to communications@houserabbit.org. Selected contributors will work with our editor to polish their piece for publication. Once your article is published in print, it will also become available on our website. HRJ authors and photographers are not paid.