Poetry Submissions
Submit up to 3 poems, no more than 3 pages total. Please submit all poems in one document, not individually. Just email us if you have to withdraw one of the poems. Again, all poems in one uploaded document, and only one submission per reading period. Thanks!
Name, address, phone number, and email address on top of page for each poem.
Poems should be single spaced, titled, with clear stanza breaks.
Fiction Submissions
Submit one short story (really, just one, no more than 5,000 words) or one to three pieces of flash fiction (in one document).Stories should be double spaced, 12-point font, one-inch margins. Name, address, phone number, and email address on first page. Last name and story title (abbreviated, if long) on pages that follow. Pages should be numbered.
Creative Nonfiction Submissions
Submit one creative nonfiction piece (no more than 3,000 words)..Work should be double spaced, 12-point font, one-inch margins. Name, address, phone number, and email address on first page. Last name and story title (abbreviated, if long) on pages that follow. Pages should be numbered.
"Sprints" category:
“Flashbulb memories” are vivid recollections, brief windows into moments in time: a scene, an experience, or a state of being. Such memories tend to be more accurate than most, seared as they are inside the mind. When told as short, short stories, such memorable events or observations can make for compelling nonfiction: To the point. Yet haunting afterwards. The pieces in our flash nonfiction or micro-memoir feature, titled Sprints, capture this sense of memory and experience in fewer than 750 words, with an eye to the universal tale told well. - Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson
If you would like your work considered for this category, please make “Sprint” the first word of your submission title and enter it here, the creative nonfiction category. Shorter is better. If you don’t need all 750 of those words, don’t feel compelled to use them. Thanks!
Contest Submissions - $10.00
It’s energy. It’s intensity. It’s passion. It consumes you. It dissolves, melts, bakes. It’s a fever, or just a blush. It’s a night in a cheap motel, a barefoot walk on hot sand, a complicated meal in a rowhouse kitchen. It’s nuclear fusion or the Senate floor. It’s jalapeno and habanero peppers. It’s the cops.Heat.
It’s the contest theme for our summer issue.
Submit work in the fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry categories. We will select 1st place, 2nd place, and 3rd place winners from among all three categories. So winners could be two poems and one story, one creative nonfiction piece and two stories, etc. You get the picture.
Submit all contest entries, in whatever genre, through the submission system’s Contest category. Do not submit contest entries through the non-contest categories. This will work. Trust me.
Judging is blind. Please do not include identifying information on your work. Do include name, address, phone number, and email address in the cover letter/bio box.
3,000 word max for prose. Best to keep poems to one page.
Submit one story, one creative nonfiction piece, or 1-3 poems.
$10 entry fee.
1st place prize - $300, 2nd place prize $200, 3rd place prize $100. First-place winner will be published. All entries will be considered for publication.
Deadline: May 30, 2012
Visual
It’s energy. It’s intensity. It’s passion. It consumes you. It dissolves, melts, bakes. It’s a fever, or just a blush. It’s a night in a cheap motel, a barefoot walk on hot sand, a complicated meal in a rowhouse kitchen. It’s nuclear fusion or the Senate floor. It’s jalapeno and habanero peppers. It’s the cops.Heat.
It’s the contest theme for our summer issue, and we would love to have wonderful visual art related to the Heat theme.
All photos submitted should be related to the Heat theme and have as much to say as a poem or short story. You know what they say about how many words a picture is worth. Photos may be photos of original artwork. Actually, we encourage photos of original artwork.
Submit one to three photos.
If your visual art is selected, we will request an artist's statement, and we will be happy to include a link to your web page. We will also probably be inspired to respond to your art with our own words, in hopes of a happy inter-arts marriage.
Deadline is May 30.
Video
Size limit: Three minutes or less
Tell us a story, We have always wanted to be told stories. For thousands of years, we have wanted to hear the storyteller's voice. That's nothing new. But the technology is.Submit your story in a YouTube or vimeo format, but you still have to tell us a story. If you narrate, we will listen. We will also look for an innovative visual experience to accompany your narration. A compelling oral storytelling presence. An energetic spoken word poem in story form. Animation. Acting. Art. Anything. As long as we hear your voice telling us a story
Three minutes or less, please.
We want to include you in the spring issue.