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Email/Postmark submission deadline: December 31, 2013

Issue 10 of Workers Write! will be More Tales from the Cubicle and will contain stories and poems from the office worker's point of view.

The deadline for submissions is Dec. 31, 2013. Submit your stories and poems via e-mail to:

cubicleATworkerswritejournalDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to .) or send a hard copy to:

Blue Cubicle Press
P.O. Box 250382
Plano, TX 75025-0382

Word count: 500 to 5,000 words / Payment: Between $5 and $50 (depending on length and rights requested). We will consider previously published material. Visit our website for more information.

2014 CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW Special Issue Feature Awards in Poetry, Fiction, & Literary Nonfiction
Submissions Link.
Magazine website.
$1,500 prize in each genre
All Entries must be submitted through SUBMITTABLE.

October 1, 2013 – November 15, 2013
Entry Fee: $22.50 per initial entry
(additional entries $10.00; up to two additional entries)
All entrants receive a year’s subscription ($20.00)
(additional entries receive one back issue each entry)


BELOW ARE THE GUIDELINES FOR THIS YEAR'S SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURE AWARDS:

Entries should fit the topic the CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW Summer/Fall 2014 special issue, “The West Coast and Beyond,” focusing on writing exploring the people, places, history, and changes shaping these U.S. States, Commonwealths, and Territories: California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States Virgin Islands, and other areas which have been a part of the United States beyond the Lower 48 States (excepting those States listed here).

One winner in each genre category—Poetry, Fiction, and Literary Nonfiction—will be selected by the editors of Crab Orchard Review to be published in the issue and receive a $1500.00 award. The editors are looking for the work in each genre that best embodies the topic of the special issue. Entries must be previously unpublished*, original work written in English by a United States citizen or permanent resident (current students and employees at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are not eligible). The author's name should not appear on any page.

All entries must be submitted online between October 1, 2013 and the end of November 15, 2013 (entries will be accepted online until 11:59:59 PM (PST) on November 15, 2013). All entrants will receive notification of the results by email by December 15, 2013.

All entries will also be considered for publication in the Summer/Fall 2014 special issue, “The West Coast and Beyond.” Regular Crab Orchard Review contributor’s payment rates ($25 (US) per magazine page. $50 minimum for poetry; $100 minimum for prose) apply to any accepted work that is not a genre winner.
We hope to make all editorial decisions for the issue by the end of January 2014.

GUIDELINES:

Poetry entries should consist of one poem up to five pages in length (this is a change in the entry instructions from last year**).

Prose entry length: up to 6000 words for fiction and up to 6500 words for literary nonfiction.

One initial Special Issue Feature Award poetry entry, or one story entry in fiction, or one essay entry in literary nonfiction per $22.50 online entry fee. If you wish to enter a 2nd or 3rd entry, please follow the instructions for a 2nd or 3rd entry and use the "2nd or 3rd Special Issue Feature Award Entry." Entering a 2nd or 3rd entry will each cost $10.00. A writer may send up to three entries in one genre or a total of three entries if entering all competitions, but please do not submit more than three entries total.

The initial $22.50 fee entitles entrant to one copy of the 2014 Winter/Spring issue of CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW, and one copy of the 2014 Summer/Fall issue of CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW, our special issue "The West Coast and Beyond,” which will include the winners of these competitions. If you already have a CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW subscription we will extend your subscription for one additional year.

If you submit two or three entries, please use the entry link for "2nd or 3rd Special Issue Feature Award Entry." Entering a 2nd or 3rd entry will each cost $10.00 and will entitle you to one of the following past issues of CRAB ORCHARD.

—Crab Orchard Review Vol. 15, No. 2, our special fifteenth anniversary issue "Land of Lincoln ~ Writing about and from Illinois"
—Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 16, No. 1
—Crab Orchard Review Vol. 16, No. 2, our special issue "Old & New ~ Re-Visions of the American South"
—Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 17, No. 1

—Crab Orchard Review Vol. 17, No. 2, our special issue "Due North"
Please indicate the back issue you wish to receive for a 2nd or 3rd Special Issue Feature Award entry in your cover letter through Submittable.

Cairn Press LLC will have a submission period from February 1 through March 31. We seek remarkable, completed, fine-tuned fiction manuscripts. We look for prose that rises off the page,characters that infect our dreams, stories that alter us. If you have a novel that can only be identified as literature, has taken you years to write and is quite good, then please send a kind email to:

editor(at)cairnpress.com (change (at) to @ )

with "submission" in the subject line. We will need a one-page query and the opening 20 pages attached as.doc/.docx/.pdf/.rtf files in order to consider the work. Please see our submission guidelines for more information.

Thank you,
Angie Brown
Cairn Press
Acquisitions Manager
Associate Editor

Tuscany Press would like to make everyone aware that the 2013 Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction will begin on January 1, 2013. We have made three major changes for 2013.

1.) The submission deadline is June 30, 2013.  We decided to make this change, so Tuscany Press can make available the Tuscany Prize Winners for Christmas 2013.
 

Greetings from Reunion: The Dallas Review

We are now accepting submissions. Reunion is a rising literary and fine arts journal sponsored by the School of Arts and Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas, featuring high-quality poetry, fiction, non-fiction, visual arts, translation and drama.

We are seeking well-crafted quality work from across the nation and abroad to be featured in our large format, full color annual publication. Our current deadline is Dec. 15. Please visit our website to submit your work.

Call for Submissions:

Black Lawrence Press is now accepting submissions for an anthology of essays by immigrant poets in America, celebrating their contributions to the landscape of American poetry. The title, Others Will Enter the Gates, is taken from Walt Whitman's poem, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry".

Immigrant poets living in the United States are invited to submit essays of between 700-5000 words for the anthology. Poets can address one of four themes in their essays:

1) Influence(s)
2) How the poet's work fits within the American poetic tradition
3) How the poet's work fits within the poetic tradition of his/her home country and
4) What it means to be a poet in America.

Essays can be creative or academic. However, essays need to be accessible since the anthology is also for a general audience.

Abayomi Animashaun, Nigerian émigré and author of The Giving of Pears, will serve as editor. Questions? You may contact him at .

Submissions will be accepted via Submittable.

Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2013.

Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose has published an award-winning print journal since 2000 through Fairfield University. We welcome entries in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for its annual contest with a $1000 grand prize for one winning entry.

The grand prize winner will be chosen from winners in nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Winners in the other two genres will receive prizes of $250. Entry fee is $15; all submissions considered for publication in the 12th annual edition of this print and e-pub journal. Submissions accepted online between August 1 and October 15, 2012. Please use our online submission manager for your submissions.

Results of the contest will be announced in Spring 2013 and published in the 2013 issue of Dogwood.

JUDGES

FICTION: Roxane Gay`s work has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2012, NOON, American Short Fiction, West Branch, Oxford American, The Rumpus, and many others. She is a columnist for Salon, edits various publications, teaches, and lives in the Midwest.

POETRY: Adrian Matejka is the author of The Devil's Garden (Alice James Books, 2003), Mixology (Penguin, 2009) which was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series, and The Big Smoke (Penguin, forthcoming in 2013). He is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and fellowships from Cave Canem and the Lannan Foundation. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, and Poetry among other journals and anthologies. He teaches creative writing at Indiana University.

NONFICTION: Adriana Páramo is a cultural anthropologist and author of My Mother's Funeral and Looking for Esperanza, winner of the 2011 Social Justice and Equality Award. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Consequence Magazine, So to Speak, Carolina Quarterly Review, The Los Angeles Review, and others. She has worked for Voice of Witness, a book series focusing on contemporary social injustice.

Fiction and Nonfiction Submission Guidelines

Submit fiction or nonfiction up to 25 pages using this online submission manager.
Please title your submission with the title of your piece.
Please double space and use 12-point font.
Include a brief bio with contact information in the cover letter field on the submission manager, but no name should appear on the mss.
Simultaneous submissions allowed if Dogwood is notified of acceptance elsewhere.
Previously published work is not eligible.
Poetry Submission Guidelines

Submit one, two, or three poems (max ten pages)
Please include all poems in one document.
Please double space and use 12-point font.
In the submission manager, please include the titles of all poems in your submission title (rather than "Three Poems").
Include a brief bio with contact information in the cover letter field on the submission manager, but no name should appear on the mss.
Simultaneous submissions allowed if Dogwood is notified of acceptance elsewhere.
Previously published work is not eligible.
Deadline: October 15, 2012
Work not meeting the above guidelines will not be considered for publication. All contest entries meeting these requirements will be considered for publication in Spring 2013 Issue of Dogwood along with selected non-contest submissions.

Updated: If you choose not to send to the contest, please also use the submission manager but select "Non-Contest" and follow the guidelines above. We are asking for a $3 fee to support the work of the journal for non-contest submissions. For more information, please email:

 shuber(at)fairfield.edu (replace (at) with @). Current and former employees and students of Fairfield University are ineligible for publication. All work considered anonymously.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Places We’ve Been: Field Reports from Travelers Under 35 is looking for nonfiction narratives that challenge conventional tourism.

From West Africa to Vietnam, Tokyo to Paris, the book’s focus is to show exactly where on the map our wide peer group has gone so far, and the distinctive niche of travel experiences that defines us. The book, which is an anthology of literary nonfiction, aims to draw readers through its vivid and transportive stories, told by the most adventurous and insightful of our group’s literary and raconteur peers. Examples of the types of stories we’re looking to include, are:

- A Chicago native’s true story of four days spent stuck on a boat on the Amazon River, after the annual folkloric festival in Parintins
- An American school teacher’s reportage from Cameroon, of a day spent dodging machete blades and hiding from the angry mob that overtook her campus after a controversial election
- A Japanese New Yorker’s tale of one year spent tending bar at her aunt’s Tokyo nightclub and learning about the private lives and secrets of her mother’s extended family
- An asthmatic hedge fund analyst’s strident portrayal of his month-long trek through Central Asia from Kathmandu to Everest Base Camp

The book will be released in January 2013, available in eBook and paperback.
Interested?

SUBMISSION is open through October 15, 2012. In addition to personal experience, the narrative should portray a strong sense of place. Creative nonfiction is the name of the game. There’s no set form, but memoir, literary journalism, essay, profile, ethnography, and interview (among other forms) are all welcome.

GUIDELINES: Submissions must be typed and sent as a Word document. Please include your full name, city and state, phone number, email address, and a biography no longer than two short paragraphs. Previously published work will not be considered. Please, no simultaneous submissions. No minimum word count; maximum 5,000 words. No fabricated narratives or pen names. Compensation varies.

Please allow four weeks for a response. Submissions will not be published without the writer’s consent. Feel free to check back with us if after four weeks you haven’t received a response.
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO SUBMIT, CONTACT:

stories(at)theplaces35.com (replace (at) with @ in sending email).

The editors of Tapestry, the annual literary magazine of Delta State University, welcome poetry submissions that focus on the Mississippi Delta or small-town southern life. For the Spring, 2013 issue, submissions should be sent as Word attachment by December 3, 2012 to:

tapestry(at)deltastate.edu (replace (at) with @ in sending email)

(Please include in the body of the e-mail complete contact information, including mailing address. Payment will be one copy of the issue in which the accepted work appears.)

Tapestry, founded in 1988 by Dorothy Shawhan and Marion Barnwell, is supported by Delta State University and the Garrard Library Fund. To order Tapestry, you may write to:

Division of Languages and Literature
P.O. Box 3215
Delta State University
Cleveland, Ms 38733

Current issues are $5.00 each and back issues may be purchased for $3.00 each. For more information phone: 662-846-4060 or E-mail:

 whays(at)deltastate.edu (replace (at) with @)

New literary journal called Blue Lyra Review is currently open for Fall & Spring submissions. We are an online journal but we will print an annual best-of issue. beginning Dec 2013.

Our aim is to bring together the voices of writers and artists from a diverse array of backgrounds, paying special homage to minorities including Jewish writers and those from communities that are historically underrepresented in literary magazines.

Profits earned from this will be donated to the charities listed on our Web Site.

You can submit poems, nonfiction, fiction, artistic images, or translations through Submittable.

Nonfiction:
We’re interested in 500 – 4,000 word (maximum) personal essays, memoirs, creative non-fiction which have a strong story at its core, and where the author shows up on the page with passion, a personal stake, or meaningful reflection. Sorry, but essays over 4,000 words will not be reviewed. We are open to all topics but are especially interested in nature- or Jewish-oriented pieces. Make sure your submission has your contact information (name, address, phone number, email) on the attached (brief) cover letter ONLY. Please do NOT have any identifying information on any page of your submission except the cover page!

Poetry:
While poetry is full for issue 1.2, please begin submitting for Spring issue 2.1! Whether narrative or lyrical or experimental or prose poetry, we are simply looking for something that moves us. Please attach 3-5 poems at a time in a single file with a .doc, .docx, or .pdf extension, and put your name and poems in subject line (Silverman – poems). Don’t send just one poem unless it’s a long poem (more than three pages). We want to get a sense of your style as a writer, and one poem is not enough to do this. Make sure your submission has your contact information (name, address, phone number, email) on the attached (brief) cover letter ONLY. Please do NOT have any identifying information on any page of your submission except the cover page! Type the titles of your poems, separated by commas, in the Title box.

Fiction:
The most important thing is that it needs to be based more on truth than experimentation for experimentation’s sake. It can be light or it can be serious, but for it to be worthy, it must reflect life, with some fundamental human idea. Fiction should be organic and natural, and accept its premise (whatever it may be) without a wink or a nod. We’re currently looking for works that thrum on all cylinders and that are confident in a unique way. We’re interested in solid stories with weight, regardless of length (anywhere from 200 to 7,500 words). Send your submissions in .doc or .docx format with your contact information (name, address, phone number and email address) on your (brief) cover letter. Please make sure that you put the word count on the first page of the submission or in the cover letter! Please do NOT have any identifying information on any page of your submissions except the cover page. You may submit 1-3 micro pieces, but any pieces 500 words or longer must be submitted alone.

Translations:
We are looking for translations that read as if they were originally written in English, rather than as "translations." We especially prize translations that "honor" the music of the original text. In addition, translators should choose poems of high literary merit. We consider previously unpublished translations of poetry from any language. Submissions should include 3-6 poems, and should include both the original and the translation. Biographies of both the author and translator should be included in a cover letter, as well as a short paragraph on the process of translating these particular poems and/or why this particular author was chosen. Translators are expected to have acquired copyright permission to publish (online and in print) the original poems, if they are not in the public domain, BEFORE submitting.

Simultaneous submissions to other literary journals are okay, but please do not send more than one submission until you have received a response to your first submission.

Send original, unpublished material only.


JOB OPENING: We are looking for a web editor and copy editor—hopefully a Web & Copy Editor rolled into one to manage layout, fix any problems that arise, and add post content (poetry, nonfiction, art, fiction, interviews, etc.) for each issue, as well as to maintain the website (keep information up-to-date). After the web editor receives the content to add to the website, we hope he/she can accomplish this within 2 week time frame with issues being released 3 times per year.

If a candidate is talented and ambitious and would like to revamp the web design, that is welcome (but not necessary). This, like all positions here are volunteer positions.

Qualifications:
**Some HTML knowledge preferred.
**Must have done web editing in some capacity before. We use WordPress for our website. It’s pretty easy. We are not married to this and would be open to change.
**Must be fairly good at grammar and formatting.
.
Application Materials:

**A very brief letter explaining your past experiences editing and designing websites with any links to websites you’ve worked on in the past.
**Send all application materials to:

 bluelyrareview(at)gmail.com (replace (at) with @ in sending email). Put “Web/ Copy Editor Position” in the subject line of your email.

Call for Submissions: Found Poetry Anthology

Found Patrick is a poetry anthology for found poetry taken from selected articles written by Patrick Sokas, M.D. Compensation is $25 plus a copy of the anthology.

Articles to be used for source material are posted here, along with submission guidelines.

Publication in 2013, but acceptances will be on a rolling basis. Submission period closes December 1, 2012.

The 2012 Open City Magazine No-Fee RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest @ Anderbo

2012 RRofihe Trophy
(9th Year!)

For an unpublished short story
(Minimum word count: 3,500; maximum to 5,000 words)

Winner Receives:
$500 cash
Trophy
Announcement & Publication on anderbo.com

Judged by Rick Rofihe
2012 Contest Assistant: Carolyn Wilsey
Carolyn Wilsey has read fiction for Esquire and Swink, and is the Managing Editor of Anderbo

Guidelines:
–Stories should be typed, double-spaced, with the author's name, the story's title, and contact information on the first page
–Submissions must be received by December 31st, 2012
–Limit one submission per author
–Author must not have been previously published in Open City Magazine or on Anderbo
–E-mail submissions to:

editors(at)anderbo.com (replace (at) with @)

RROFIHE TROPHY in the subject line
–YOU MUST SUBMIT YOUR STORY-MANUSCRIPT ENTRY WITHIN THE BODY OF THE E-MAIL—NO ATTACHMENTS!
–THERE IS NO READING FEE and all literary rights will remain with the author

Contest Judge Rick Rofihe is the author of FATHER MUST, a collection of short stories published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Grand Street, Open City, Swink, Unsaid, and on epiphanyzine, slushpilemag, and fictionaut. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, SPY, and The East Hampton Star, and on mrbellersneighborhood. A recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award, he has taught MFA writing at Columbia University. He currently teaches privately in New York City, and was an advisor to the Vilcek Foundation for their 2011 prizes in the field of literature. Rick is the Editor of Anderbo.

Talking Writing is an online literary magazine that supports writers and those interested in literature by encouraging creative discussion of the writing process.

Talking Writing features the work of poets, fiction and creative nonfiction writers, visual artists, and photographers. TW includes long reviews and personal essays, pieces that are often hard to place in print. We are committed to a new kind of magazine, one that’s dynamic, talky, inspiring, and not too dusty.

From June 1 to July 15, Talking Writing is looking for poetry submissions for an issue on prose poems, and for a general issue. We are also looking for creative nonfiction on Writing that Crosses Mediums.
Follow this link to our front page, and the link to the submissions manager will be on the masthead.

The Los Angeles Review literary journal is looking for three to five book reviewers. These reviewers will primarily be responsible for our new online review section, which includes reviews of self-published books. Some reviews may also be published in the print journal. Fiction, poetry and nonfiction reviewers are all welcome to apply.

Online reviews are 200 to 500 words in length. Print reviews are 200 to 300 words.

Applicants should have some experience reviewing books, preferably for a literary journal. This is a volunteer position at this time; a stipend may be added in the future.

To apply, please send an email to the Book Review Editor, at:

 LAReview.bookreviews(at)gmail.com (replace (at) with @) in sending email).

A resume/CV and links to published reviews are appreciated. To find out more about us, please visit our web site.

Jet Fuel Review
Call for Submissions: Fall 2011 issue (November, 2011)
Reading Period: now through the end of September
The Jet Fuel Review is a new, online literary journal. Our first issue was released this spring featuring the work of students, alumni, and many nationally-published authors. We are now accepting submissions for the fall issue, to be released this November.

We are accepting fiction (short stories, flash fiction, micro shorts), non-fiction (lyrical essays, memoirs, hybrid works, etc), poems, and artwork. Please consider submitting!

General guidelines for submissions:

Fiction: Submissions should be 3000 words or less.
Non-Fiction: May also include critical literary essays of 3000 words, reviews of chapbooks or novels of 3500 words, and personal narratives of 5000 words or less are preferred.
Poetry: Poems or prose poems of less than 100 lines. Please do not send more than 6 poems within a reading period.
Artwork: You may send up to 3 pieces of artwork within a reading period. When submitting artwork, we request that you caption the artwork with a title, if available, and the medium in which you worked. We can only literally publish virtual art, that is, art that is transferable to an online format. If you wish to submit a painting or a sculpture, you are welcome to send a photo of the piece.

Please email all submissions as attachments to:
lewislitjournal(at)gmail.com (replace (at) with @ in sending e-mail)

Please use a subject line in this format: last name/genre/title.

All art submissions must be sent in .jpg or .png format for ease of viewing and posting.

All text submissions must be sent in .doc format or .rtf format; please do not send documents in .docx format.

Please include a short bio and contact information with your submissions in the body of the email. If we don’t have your contact information, we cannot publish your work! This would make us sad.

The content for Jet Fuel Review’s fall 2011 Issue is exclusively online. Jet Fuel Review claims first publishing rights, which revert back to the author upon publication. While we allow simultaneous submissions, please do notify us as soon as possible if your work becomes unavailable as we do not publish previously published work, whether that publication occurred online or in print.

If you submit work, expect to hear back from us prior to October of this year (publication is scheduled for November). If you become concerned that we have overlooked your submission, please verify that  you sent contact information.

The Trust & Treachery anthology, is now open for submissions.
Check out the details here.


Payment: $20.00 per accepted story. $5.00 per accepted poem.


Length: 1000-5000 words for fiction. No more than 3 poems per submission.

Submission Period: June 15-Dec. 15, 2011

“We are pleased to announce Trust & Treachery: Tales of Power, Intrigue, and Violence. Power struggles, politics, posturing: whether it’s parliament, the royal family, a coven, or your homeowner’s association, power breeds distrust, intrigue, and violence…
We want your awesomest stories!”

Cooper Dillon Books is a small poetry press founded on promoting and maintaining the values that make poems timeless. Through the publication and distribution of full-length collections and chapbooks, our intention is to nurture the poet and reader who finds joy in aesthetic, beauty, honesty and intimacy.

Between April and August, we welcome submission of chapbook and full-length poetry manuscripts.
As a new independent literary press devoted exclusively to poetry we're excited to consider all types of poems. Cooper Dillon Books intends to select two full-length manuscripts and two chapbooks per year. Find all the details here.

Note: There is an $10.00 reading fee, or you can purchase a book from their publication list.

cream city review is pleased to announce a special section for our upcoming Spring 2011 issue:  “Dispatches from the Front: Labor and the Fight For Worker’s Rights.”

Do you have a recent, related experience that you would like to share with the world, whether protesting at the Capital in Madison or working in your community to support the rights of workers? We are seeking  submissions of personal narrative, poetry, art, even fiction, that seeks to document the ongoing protest over the dissolution of workers' rights in Wisconsin.

Ideally, we are looking for local Wisconsin voices that represent a wide range of communities and identities, but will also consider work from those in solidarity from around the world. We also welcome voices of protest from communities impacted by other recent policy enactment in Madison (cuts in health care,educations, etc…). Preference will be given to voices that have fewer resources for having their voice  in print; cream city review will also seek to juxtapose those voices with work from published writers/journalists that offer a personal perspective on their experience.

We invite writers and artists to submit their work via our online submission manager.

Please selectthe appropriate genre for your work, i.e. “Labor poetry” or “Labor visual art,”etc. Submissions selected for this special section will be published in or around May/June 2011. Deadline for submissions is May 1, 2011.

Founded in 1975, cream city review is a biannual literary journal, edited andpublished by graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. We receive support form the Graduate Program in Creative Writing, private donations, and a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board. The journal is distributed nationally and internationally by Ingram Periodicals and can be found in independent and chain booksellers in the United States and Canada. More information can be found here.

If you are a teenager currently enrolled in high school, grades 9-12, Crashtest, the new online literary magazine for high school writers, would like to hear from you!

Though we read all year round, our deadline for work to be considered for our inagural issue is APRIL 15. After that we will be reading for our Fall/Winter issue due out in December.

Crashtest publishes poetry, stories and creative non-fiction in the form of personal essays, imaginative investigation, experimental interviews, or whatever else you would like to call it. We're looking for writing that has both a perspective and a personality. We're looking for authors who have something to say. Our first issue will be up in the spring, but in the meantime please check us out.

Guidelines: Crashtest only accepts email submissions. Send submissions, in the form of a .doc or .rtf attachment only, and any queries to:
editor(at)crashtestmag.com (replace (at) with @ in sending e-mail).

Poetry: 3-5 poems at a time.

Fiction: 1 piece at a time (no word or page limit)

Creative Non-Fiction: 1 piece at a time (no word or page limit)

Please go to our site for complete guidelines.

Submit for our first issue!
Spittoon is an independent contemporary literary zine dedicated to the publication of quality contemporary poetry and fiction. This publication will publish work by poets and writers, both well known and up-and -coming. Our only goal is to feature excellent work, so there are no form or content restrictions; however, we will never publish "cookie cutter" writers (you know who you are). We want original work that affects the reader in a physical and emotional way. To us, the form is as important as the content and they should both work together to develop the intended effect.

Guidelines:
Spittoon accepts submissions year-round. Response times will vary, but they are generally between 3 to 5 months.

No previously published work.
Simultaneous submissions okay.
Do not submit to Spittoon more than once at a time; please wait for response before submitting again.
No photographs or clip art should be in any of the files; we should only see words on the page, unless the visuals are actually part of the piece and used to help the piece achieve its intended effect.
Upon publication, Spittoon claims First Rights; after publication, all rights revert to the author, with the understanding that Spittoon will receive credit if the piece is published elsewhere.
Please read our mission to better understand the kind of work we want before submitting.
Include a short bio / cover letter.
Any submission that does not follow the guidelines will be deleted.

Poetry

Submit up to 5 poems at a time. No length requirement. All should be saved in a single .pdf, .doc, or .rtf document, with author's identifying information at the top of the first page. For poems that are more than one page, indicate page number with last name and poem title at the top of each page.

To submit via postal (snail) mail, include a cover letter with bio and
an SASE. Send to:

Spittoon
Poetry Editor
725 S. Taft Hill Rd.
Fort Collins, CO 80521

Fiction

Submit a single piece (up to 5,000 words) or up to three short-shorts. All should be saved in a single .pdf, .doc, or .rtf document, with author's identifying information at the top left of first page, and author last name with title and page number at the top of each
additional page. All text should be double-spaced in size 12 font.

To submit via postal (snail) mail, include a cover letter with bio and an SASE. Send to:

Spittoon
Fiction Editor
725 S. Taft Hill Rd.
Fort Collins, CO 80521

For more information or to contact the editor, email:

spittoonmag(at)gmail.com (replace (at) with @ in sending e-mail) or visit our site.

In honor of National Poetry Month, the staff of Thin Air Magazine are proud to announce the 2011 Writers' Challenge.  To participate, simply write 30 pieces in 30 days -- any genre!  Each day, the editors will select a submitted piece to be featured on the blog as one of the best pieces ever written during April 2011.  Check out our blog for all the details.

You can also look for us on Facebook as Thin Air Magazine.  We hope that you will consider joining us, and we look forward to reading your submissions!

Respectfully,

The Editors of Thin Air Magazine
thinairmagazine.com

OVS MAGAZINE Open for Submissions of poetry and black & white art.

Please submit to us at: ovsmag(at)gmail.com (replace (at) with @ in sending e-mail).

Please note that we only accept one submission per author/ artist during our reading period. Simultaneous submissions are welcome with immediate notification of acceptance elsewhere. No previously published work, please. Reading Period for the Summer Issue 2011: January 31st 2011 - May 31st 2011.

Art Submissions:
All art submissions must have ART SUBMISSION: (ART SUBMISSION: YOUR NAME HERE) in the subject line or they will not be opened. Please send no more than 2 images. We are currently only accepting Black & White images. Email to:

ovsmag(at)gmail.com (replace (at) with @).

Please send art as a jpeg attachment. If we need a higher resolution image for final publication, we will contact you.

A cover letter with contact information and bio in the third person is required, and should be pasted into your email message and addressed to the editors. Please list your attachment's name in the body of your
cover letter.

Poetry Submissions:
All poetry submissions must have POETRY SUBMISSION: (POETRY SUBMISSION: YOUR NAME HERE) in the subject line or they will not be opened. Please send 3-6 poems (max of 10pgs) Email to:

ovsmag(at)gmail.com (replace (at) with @).

Please send poetry in a single attachment formatted for MS Word or .rtf. Name attachment with your last name and POETRY (EXAMPLE: SmithPoetry.doc). A cover letter with contact information and bio in the third person is required, and should be pasted into your email message and addressed to the editors.

OVS Magazine will hold the First North American Electronic Serial Rights for the piece for the issue in which the piece is printed. At the end of the month, rights revert back to the author, though OVS Magazine reserves the rights to archive the piece. If the piece is chosen to appear in a later print edition, the author will be contacted for OVS Magazine to reserve First North American Print Serial Rights. OVS Magazine cannot offer payment for accepted submissions to the magazine. Each contributor will receive a free PDF copy of the journal.

Online survival focused journal The Survivor Chronicles just got its own website and is inviting submissions in the visual art and written work categories.

The Survivor Chronicles is a small independent publication dedicated to trauma release, healing and survival.

We want to hear from you:

* If you have survived a major trauma, or are in the process of surviving it.
* If someone close to you has survived a major trauma or is in the process of surviving it.
* If you are a social worker or health worker or any other professional and have seen trauma at close range.
* If you are a writer or artist who deeply empathizes with the human condition and can portray trauma and its process and/or effects honestly and sensitively.
* If you are a photographer who has documented trauma and its survival.

Here are some general submission guidelines:

We prefer shorter pieces to longer ones, owing to the attention spanof the average internet reader.

We love poetry, well crafted short fiction, and arealso interested in analytical opinion pieces (non fiction) and musingsabout trauma survival.

In the body of an email, paste 1-5 poems, or short fiction/non fiction within 1500 words.

Artists and photographers can send 1-5 pieces for consideration; email as separate attachments.

We reserve the one time right to publish your work and archive it on our website forever. Publications are online and on a rolling basis.

However, all rights revert to the author once we publish the work. Currently, we are not interested in previously published work.

If it is important for you to remain anonymous, please feel free to use a pseudonym. Otherwise, please send a short bio.

If at any point after you have sent us a submission but before publication, you feel the need to use a pseudonym please contact us at once. We are very protective of your identity and will not post your name if you feel uncomfortable about it.

Where to send your submissions:

In the subject line of your email, write your Name, Type of Submission, Submission and send it to:

thesurvivorchronicles(at)gmail.com (replace (at) with @ in sending e-mail)

Call for Submissions for a Special **Adaptations** Issue of WHR (Spring 2011) ::: the editors invite submissions that exemplify or address the phenomenon of ADAPTATION.

Fiction, poetry and criticism are all welcome, as well as writing in hybrid genres that combine or adapt more traditional forms.

edited by Lance Olsen // Scott Black // Craig Dworkin // Paisley Rekdal ///
Submission Period: January 1, 2011 through March 15, 2011 (postmark date)

Guidelines: If one long prosaic piece (essays, fiction, etc.), no more than 25 pages; If poems or shorter pieces, up to 5 pieces (totaling not more than 25 pages) /// Everything should be in a format that can be printed in WHR's standard journal format (black and white), and should be sent via regular mail.

Send questions to:
whr(at)mail.hum.utah.edu (replace(at) with @) )

Submit your Adaptations to (please do not forget to mark as for the "Adaptations Issue"):

Western Humanities Review
ADAPTATIONS ISSUE
c/o dawn lonsinger
University of Utah English Dept.
255 S. Central Campus Dr., LNCO 3500
Salt Lake City, UT 841112

A few weeks ago I offered to bust readers’ excuses for not pitching magazines — or, if they’re pitching, for approaching only low/no-pay pubs. (By the way, if you have an excuse you’d like me to bust, you can send it to [email protected].)

Here’s Steve’s excuse: It’s not that I don’t pitch or query, but that I don’t do it enough. There are mindsets that tell me that I can’t truly pitch unless I visit the bookstore and read up real well on the market, and also the fact that is has been drummed into me to avoid magazines and just write for businesses.

I certainly don’t want to tell you that you shouldn’t research your markets, but if it’s something that’s keeping you from pitching, you need to find a way around it. Here are a few tips:

1. Research the market online. Most newsstand magazines now have websites with content and even sometimes their editorial masthead. There are many directories of newsstand magazines online, and I recommend tradepubs.com to find, well, trade pubs.

2. Pitch the magazines you already read. No research required! (You do read magazines, right?)

3. Find a niche. It’s not very efficient to come up with an idea on, say, martial arts and then spend five days at the bookstore examining every magazine in the martial arts section. You probably know what topics you’d like to write about most. Get to know the magazines in those areas over time. Whenever you head to the bookstore, read through an issue or two. Soon you’ll pick up a good, broad knowledge of the markets. You don’t need to cram for pitching!

4. Idea first, then market. Many writers, like our own Diana Burrell, like to find the market first, and then formulate a pitch for it. I prefer to come up with an idea and then find a market to match. Both ways are fine, but in your particular case, if you brainstorm ideas first, you won’t be stymied by the fact that you don’t have a perfect knowledge of the market yet.

As for writing for businesses instead of magazines: Well, business writing certainly pays more! But it’s always good to diversify so that if one market dries up, you still have others to rely on.

I hope that helps! [lf]