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Friday Call for Submissions: carbonate: Satisfy Your Read

Friday Call for Submissions: carbonate: Satisfy Your Read

carbonate

Deadline for Fall issue: August 31, 2015

About

carbonate is a quarterly literary magazine published online in January, April, July, and October. We accept submissions of poetry, essays, short fiction, novel excerpts, art, and photography year-round.

Originating in the heart of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, carbonate® is produced by The Foundry/Rocky Mountain Centre for Writing, a non-profit organization increasing access and visibility of the literary arts in the mountain regions.

We are seeking deeply human, fully realized work from far and wide, and always hope to include voices new to us and new to publication. We publish online: one story, one portfolio of poems, one essay or piece of narrative nonfiction, and visual art. Subscribers and selected contributors get the full edition electronically in a beautifully formatted, full color e-book.

We’re exceptionally partial to works that are well-written and engaging.

Please send us work that truly resonates and brings the reader to a new place. The online journal also publishes interviews with accepted authors and artists. Please inquire before submitting interviews.

We’ll take a look at everything, but boring work will probably not find a home here. Send us your best. Try something new. We might love it.

Deadline for Fall issue: August 31, 2015

Send your submission as an attachment to: carbonatemagazine@gmail.com

Put your contact information and a short bio in the body of the email.

Submission Guidelines

Short Fiction: 5,000 words or less.

Short fiction submitted to the magazine must be original and previously unpublished. carbonate considers work that has appeared online (including on blogs and Facebook) to be previously published.

All manuscripts must be typed and double-spaced, with the author’s name, address, phone number, and approximate word count at the top of the first page, and numbered throughout and sent as a WORD attachment to the email address listed herein.

Send only your best work. Submit only one story at a time.

We are not accepting paper submissions at this time. All paper submissions will be recycled upon receipt.

All manuscripts must be written in English. Translations are acceptable, but must be accompanied by a copy of the original text.

Poetry: 3-5 poems (no more than 8 pages)

Novel Excerpts: 5,000 words or less.  You must indicate that your submission is part of an unpublished novel.  The ideal excerpt will be self contained in terms of characterization and storyline.  We will not print setups or explanations of what is taking place.  Your writing should embody a smaller version of the overall story arc.

Creative Non-Fiction: We draw heavily from unsolicited submissions. Our editors believe that providing a platform for emerging writers and helping them find readers is an essential role of literary magazines, and it’s been our privilege to work with many fine writers early in their careers. A typical issue of carbonate contains at least one essay by a previously unpublished writer.

We’re open to all types of creative nonfiction, from immersion reportage to personal essay to memoir. Our editors tend to gravitate toward submissions structured around narratives, but we’re always happy to be pleasantly surprised by work that breaks outside this general mold. Above all, we’re most interested in writing that blends style with substance, and reaches beyond the personal to tell us something new about the world. We firmly believe that great writing can make any subject interesting to a general audience.

Art: Please submit only 4-6 pieces per email. However, you may submit more than one email. We prefer to receive submissions digitally as JPEGs or PNGs sent via email to salidafoundry@gmail.com. Please make sure that your name and contact information appears in the body of the email. Each piece should be accompanied by the work’s title (if any), medium, and contact information should one of our readers want to purchase your work.

We are unable to provide critiques or feedback regarding art submissions or the selection process. If your artwork is selected for publication, you will be notified by telephone or email with further information.  If you do not hear from us in 4-8 week’s time, you should assume that your submission was not a fit for our publication at this time, but we will place them in our files for potential use in future publications. We do accept professionally presented pencil or pen/ink images.

Photography: The photography published in ‘carbonate’ is very high level, professional-quality imagery suitable for commercial purposes. If you are a recreational photographer/hobbyist, unfortunately your work will likely not be a fit for our product lines.

Submission Deadlines

The following publishing deadlines are set for the forthcoming publications.  If we receive a submission between deadlines, we will assume it is meant for the next issue.

October 2015   deadline August 31, 2015

January 2016  deadline October 31, 2016

April 2016  deadline February 1, 2016

July 2016 deadline May 1, 2016

October 2016 deadline August 31, 2016

Publication Rights

Simultaneous submissions must be marked as such, and you should notify us immediately in the event your work is accepted elsewhere.

We do not pay contributors for any work published in carbonate. However, accepted contributors will receive a 1-year digital subscription beginning with the edition your work appears in.

Upon acceptance, we acquire first rights for publication in our online magazine and one-time rights for pieces selected for re-publication. Following publication, all rights revert to the author. Should we desire to use your work in any other context (primarily, this might occur in an advertisement-type context), we will contact you via email requesting the appropriate permission.

Visit carbonate: http://carbonatemagazine.org/

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Special Thursday Call for Submissions: That, Brand New Litmag Wants Your Work

Brand New Litmag Seeking Submissions

That Literary Review

About THAT

THAT Literary Review is affiliated with the Creative Writing Program, the Department of English and Philosophy, and the College of Arts and Sciences at Auburn University at Montgomery. Published annually, THAT will be available online with print copies available at additional cost.

Submission Guidelines

All manuscripts should be in 12-point type, preferably Times Roman. All poems should be submitted in a single document. Fiction must be double-spaced, poetry single-spaced. Please send us your work as a .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .rtf file via the Submittable portal below. We do not accept submissions by post.

Our reporting time is three months; if you have not heard from us by then, feel free to query us at editor@thatliteraryreview.com.

The author’s name, address, telephone number, email address, and approximate word count should be typed at the top of the first page; all other pages should include the page number and the author’s last name in the header.

Fiction

We’re looking for excellently written fiction between 100 and 5,000 words in length.
It should be surprising, relentlessly engaging, fun, and humming with vibrancy. Include compelling characters, lively but minimal dialogue, and plots charting the unexpected.

Poetry

The poetry that we prefer is alive and idiosyncratic and that opens new vistas to the reader. We stay away from rhyming poetry, conventional forms, and love poetry unless brilliantly revisited. Three poems may be submitted (as a single document) at a time, with a total maximum of twenty pages.

General Guidelines

– We are interested only in work that has not appeared previously in either electronic or print format.

– Submit only one story or three poems at one time. If you have material under consideration with THAT, please do not submit additional work until you have heard back from us.

– Simultaneous submissions are permissible, but notify us if the work you’ve sent to us has been accepted elsewhere.

– It is recommended that all interested writers take a look at a sample issue of THAT. It really helps.

-THAT acquires first serial rights, including both print and electronic rights. Copyright remains with the author.

Payment

Authors published in THAT will receive a print copy of the issue in which they appear.

Website for That: http://www.thatliteraryreview.com/home.html

 

 

 

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Monday Must Read! Erica Plouffe Lazure, Heard Around Town

ericaMust Read Monday! Erica Plouffe Lazure, Heard Around Town

This week, meet Erica Plouffe Lazure, author of the flash fiction collection, Heard Around Town, winner of the 2014 Arcadia Fiction Chapbook Prize. Another fiction chapbook, Dry Dock, was published by Red Bird Press in Spring 2015.

Her fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, the Greensboro Review, Meridian, American Short Fiction, The Journal of Micro Literature, Fiction Southeast, Flash: the International Short-Short Story Magazine (UK), and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in Exeter, NH

Erica’s website: ericaplouffelazure.com

Erica’s books!

Pre-order Heard Around Town:

http://www.arcadiamagazine.org/#!product/prd15/4198023721/heard-around-town-pre-order

Get Dry Dock: http://www.redbirdchapbooks.com/store/p181/Dry_Dock_by_Erica_Plouffe_Lazure.html

Interview with Erica at American Short Fiction: http://americanshortfiction.org/2014/09/07/online-fiction-interview-erica-plouffe-lazure/

Interview with Erica at One Bike, One Year, by the fabulous Devi Lockwood:

https://onebikeoneyear.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/interview-with-erica-plouffe-lazure/

Read more from Erica online:

MadHat Lit: http://madhatlit.com/red-thread-erica-plouffe-lazure/

Smokelong Quarterly: http://www.smokelong.com/smoking-with-erica-plouffe-lazure/

Black Heart Magazine: http://blackheartmagazine.com/2014/11/06/hickory-wind-by-erica-plouffe-lazure/  

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Synaesthesia: “Tell us where you’re going”

Friday Call for Submissions Love!

Synaesthesia

Theme

ATLAS

DEADLINE: 30 July 2015

noun | a book of maps or charts

Tell us where you’re going. Tell us about the bridge above the river that looks like milk. Point out your favourite spot. Map out your route. Show us how it happened, where he was, where he is now. Circle the place you first kissed, the place you kissed him last. Show us where you left him, do it in red. Take us to Tibet. Get us lost. Take us home again. Draw us a map of your hand. The muscles and tendons. Where she kissed it, where she pinched it, scratched it, slapped it, held it. Send us tickets and postcards. Think about structure, style. Break conventions: give us stories and poems told through graphs, tables, charts and maps.

Be part of our collection about maps and the roads that fall between them. Be part of the atlas that makes us human, or not.

About

Editors are mothers. They cradle words in their ink-stained hands and rock them gently until they hiccup and burp and sleep without fidgeting. Sometimes they have to be strict, and tell words that they can’t play with that other word because that other word isn’t good for them. Sometimes they have to say no because that’s how stories get better. But mostly they love words and just want to see them grow into great, great stories that others point at and go, heck, I wish I’d written that.

So we’ve decided to write about what we like and what we don’t like in our submissions. And if you don’t like what we do like, then that’s fine. Maybe it’s just not meant to be. It’s important to remember that your submission absolutely doesn’t have to be perfect. We’re not expecting Shakespeare. If you bring us something that makes us coo we’ll tell you it makes us coo, and we’ll work with you to turn that extra o into an r so it makes us go corr.


We like poetry that howls from the rooftops. We don’t like poetry that shouts into a microphone. One commands, the other imposes rudely. We like modest poetry, poetry that tells us, actually, it’s pretty terrifying being human but y’know what? Here’s a puddle. Look at its rainbow.


We’re not particularly drawn to poetry that laments, or mourns, or talks about how much it misses its boyfriend. We don’t like poetry that feels sorry for itself.


We like poetry that talks to us like we’re humans, sometimes even friends, and poetry that goes bungee jumping and, if it’s not feeling up to it, puts its feet up and flicks through crappy TV channels. Not because it can’t be bothered, but because it’s honest. It doesn’t try hard. 


We like short stories that come to bed with you and kiss you somewhere you didn’t know you liked. Stories that tease and don’t necessarily give us what we want. If there’s a word in your story that you have to think twice about, get rid of it. Get in and get out. We don’t like stodgy prose or long-winded narratives.

 

We like short stories that say hey, babe, take a walk on the wide side. We like stories that pad barefoot into the kitchen on a summer night, spilling secrets. Short stories that are the beginnings of a knock knock joke but not the end. We don’t like sob stories, but we do like stories that whisper, I had to write this.

Guidelines

We like short stories that come to bed with you and kiss you somewhere you didn’t know you liked. Stories that pad barefoot into the kitchen on a summer night, spilling secrets. We like short stories that say hey, babe, take a walk on the wide side.

We like poems that jump into puddles. Poems about the ordinary: these yellow wellington boots, your hand-me-down prom dress. We like poems that have been gunned down to the ground and come back fighting.

We like short stories that are the beginnings of a knock knock joke but not the end. Stories that hum, some that blister. We don’t like sob stories, but we do like stories that whisper, I had to write this.

We are currently open for submissions for our ATLAS issue (publishing late summer/autumn). We will announce our last theme of the year very soon. Please read our submission guidelines before submitting (seriously, please do it, it will help you), and remember the following:

  • Your submission must correspond to the current theme in some way, however loosely you interpret it
  • Simultaneous submissions are totally fine and heartily encouraged, but if your submission is accepted elsewhere please inform us asap
  • We do not accept previously published submissions. We obtain First Serial Rights, which means we have the rights to publish your work for the first time. More info on our guidelines page
  • It’s completely free to submit to us and read our magazine
  • As part of the magazine’s ethos, we blend art and writing – please be aware that your work may be accompanied with another form of art
  • Response time: approx 1-4 months.

Okay, your turn now. Blow our senses

Guidelines and Submit Here: https://synaesthesia.submittable.com/submit

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Special Wednesday Call for Submissions: Snapdragon, Art & Healing

I’ve been thinking a lot about Art & Healing lately ❤

Special Wednesday Call for Submissions

Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing

Open July 1- July 31

“Your Wild and Precious Life” Issue

“Open for submissions for our 3rd issue due out in September! We publish previously published work so send us your new or old poems on the theme “your wild and precious life” (we love Mary Oliver). Spread the word! Thanks!”

About

“Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing aims to be the premier online literary journal for writers and all who are looking to creativity as a way to process and express the healing journey.

Whether experiencing or looking for physical, emotional, or spiritual healing, we hope this will be a place to which you come as you journey the luminous path to wholeness. AtSnapdragon Journal, in addition to poetry and creative nonfiction, we are now highlighting photography! Eventually, we will publish research articles and interviews of those doing this work in the field.

Why the Name?

“We could not think of a better name for this journal other thanSnapdragon! At its deepest level, the Snapdragon flower essence helps the soul to distinguish its use of creative forces — especially those which radiate from the lower energy centers, and those which are used for spoken word. The Snapdragon flower is often used as a remedy to help persons — particularly those who experience extreme tension in the jaw and mouth — to re-direct their powerful metabolic energy into its rightful channels. By harmonizing the relationship between these energy centers, the soul evolves in its use of creative power. And so, with Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, our desire is to provide a platform for your self-expression and soul’s healing!”

Guidelines

“We’re using Submittable to receive your poetry, creative nonfiction and photography. We will only accept, via email, research papers on art and healing. All other submissions via email will not be accepted. Our Submittable link will go live the first of each month we are open for submissions (Jan., April, July, Oct.). See our themes and guidelines below. Also sign up for our mailing list to receive notifications. Thanks!”

We consider new and previously published work on the theme of healing (emotional, physical, spiritual, community, etc.).

See detailed guidelines here: http://www.snapdragonjournal.com/submit.html

 

 

 

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Writing Workshops for the Fall: Writing through the Chakras, Writing the Spiritual Life, and More

Good morning!

I’m beginning to schedule weekend and one-day workshops for the Fall 🙂

Check out my workshop and contact page for details.

https://marycarrollhackett.com/contact/

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If you’re in the Mid-Atlantic area and you’re interested in having me teach a workshop in your area, email me and let’s make your beautiful work even better!

Hope it’s beautiful where you are today!

xo

Mary

 

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Pretend It’s Still Friday Call for Submissions: Apogee, Reclaiming the Margins

I was out of town with sick family (good thoughts, good energy, prayer in whatever your fashion appreciated), so we’re gonna pretend it’s still Friday, and get some

Call for Submissions Love!

Apogee

About

“Apogee is a literary journal specializing in art and literature that engage with issues of identity politics: race, gender, sexuality, class, and hyphenated identities. We currently produce a biannual issue featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Our goal is to publish exciting work that interrogates the status quo, providing a platform for unheard voices, including emerging writers of color.

The word “apogee” denotes the point in an object’s orbit that is farthest from the center. Our mission combines literary aesthetic with political activism. We believe that by elevating underrepresented literary voices we can effect real change: change in readers’ attitudes, change in writers’ positions in literature, and broader change in society.”

 

Submit

Submissions for Issue 6 are now open! Issue 6 will be published in print fall/winter 2015. Here are our guidelines:

    • – We accept original poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction.
    • – Please keep your prose submissions under 6,000 words and send no more than 3 poems for consideration.
    • – Send your submissions in either .doc or .docx format.


Apogee Journal’s dual purpose is to showcase writers from the periphery and to provide a platform for all writers to thoughtfully engage with issues of race, class, and identity. Our goal is to publish exciting work that sits at some distance from the mainstream and to provide a forum where unheard issues and voices can rise to the fore. To get a sense of what we publish, please browse our previous two issues or click here to order a hard copy of our current issue: http://www.apogeejournal.org/issue-three/

 

Year Round on the Blog


Submissions for our blog Perigee are open year round. We will consider completed interviews, critical and lyrical essays, book reviews and flash fiction for publication.

http://www.apogeejournal.org/blog/

 

 

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Special Wednesday Call for Submissions: MIEL: Nonfiction & Poetry Chapbooks

Special Wednesday Call for Submissions

Nonfiction writers! Poets too! Got a chapbook? Send it in!  

Only 1 week left to submit!

MIEL

“We are looking to add four more chapbooks: two of poetry (of any kind), two of prose (fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, cross-discipline, multigenre).”

“We encourage women writers, non-binary writers, trans writers, and writers of color to send work.

We are looking for work that is experimental or conceptual without a disregard for embodiment.

We are looking for work that is socially aware and alive.

We are looking for work that feels like springtime.

We would love to see work about faith, religion, science, nature, history, power, philosophy, politics, art.”

About

MIEL was established in 2011 to promote and publish difficult, innovative, intelligent, and deeply felt writing and visual art.

As a small, independent press, we exist because of subscriptions and book sales. You can support us by purchasing books in our shop.

We read manuscript submissions in June via Submittable. We read work for our biannual literary magazine 111O much of the year.

Guidelines

Open reading 2015

We will read work in June for chapbooks to add to our 2016 list. You can send work to us via Submittable. (Note that we are on Belgian time, which means our June 1 may begin before yours, and our June 30 may end before yours.)

For our 2015 reading period, there will be no reading fee. If you would like to make a gesture of support for the press, please take a look at the books in our shop and purchase one. (You can use the code IHEARTMIEL2015 for 30% off from June 1 – 30, Belgian time.) All work will be given consideration regardless of purchase.

Our 2016 list already contains three art chapbooks, two poetry chapbooks, and two nonfiction chapbooks. We are looking to add four more chapbooks: two of poetry (of any kind), two of prose (fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, cross-discipline, multigenre). Reading the work we have already published is the best way to see whether your work would be a good fit for MIEL. There are sample texts in each book page in the shop, as well as many sample poems on our website.

Website: http://miel.ohbara.com/wordpress/

On Submittable: https://111o.submittable.com/submit

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Special Monday Call for Submissions: HOAX: Counter-Argument to the Commonplace

Special Monday Call for Submissions: HOAX

Only two weeks left to submit for Issue 6!

HOAX

About

“We strongly encourage submissions from women, PoC, LGBTQIA people, differently-abled people and other underrepresented people and minorities.

HOAX is a counter-argument to the commonplace notion that art and creative writing are mutually exclusive. We champion all creative work that incorporates text in some way. HOAX is an artist-run, printed journal dedicated to publishing creative works incorporating text. Issue 6 will be available in galleries, bookshops and creative spaces across Europe, North America and Asia.

Started in early 2012, HOAX is an independent, artist-led project providing a space in print and online to show all forms of creative work incorporating text alongside each other without prejudice or predefined “rules” about the look, format, content or execution of the work. Our output is the weekly publication of new work to our website, alongside a free-of-charge, one-sheet print edition featuring works by artists/writers throughout the world, of which each issue is curated to be strong, dynamic, interesting and innovative.

We publish new work to our website every Thursday and a new printed issue every 6 months, with side-projects in between.”

Guidelines

Issue 6 submissions deadline Monday 6 July 2015
We are always accepting submissions to the HOAX website.

“We are constantly seeking innovative and interesting new submissions for both our website and the publication itself. The website features a new work every Thursday; the printed publication currently comes out bi-annually but is set to increase to quarterly- please bear with us as our reach grows!


Anyone can submit creative work incorporating text for either the publication or the website at any time by emailing it to hoaxpublication@gmail.com, providing the work is previously unpublished and created relatively recently. We strongly encourage submissions from women, PoC, LGBTQIA people, differently-abled people and other underrepresented people and minorities. There are no themes or briefs, however we do recommend that you read our manifesto before submitting work so that you have a good understanding of the project and its intentions.

All submissions for the print publication will be printed only in black ink and must be able to be confined to one side of A5 paper (if your work can’t fit this, please see below). Any work that doesn’t fit the print guidelines for the publication itself (above) will be taken as submissions for the website. Submissions for the website can take the form of images, text, video or sound files. There is no minimum or maximum size.

Image files must be large and of good quality; text files must be properly formatted as you would like them to appear to a viewer- we recommend that you also send a screenshot of the text file so that this can be as accurate as possible; video files are best uploaded to a hosting site (e.g. Youtube) and then the links sent to us.

When submitting work, please include (where possible):

– Your name
– The title of the piece
– A link to your professional website

Please send submissions to hoaxpublication@gmail.com

Due to the volume of submissions we receive, we will only contact you if and when we would like to publish your work, however all submissions will be held onto for possible future publishing as appropriate to the project’s curation. Please do not expect an immediate reply. If you would like to withdraw a submission for any reason please notify us via email.

Thank you!”

Website: hoaxpublication.co.uk

Guidelines: http://goo.gl/11ltc1

Donate towards HOAX at http://goo.gl/0D1xb1

HOAX on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1376281546025771/

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Friday Call for Submissions Bonus: The Grief Diaries

Because it seems right for this sad week.

 

The Grief Diaries: An Online Magazine Created to Exhibit Art That Speaks to Grief and Loss.

About

The Grief Diaries was founded by Kristi DiLallo, an MFA candidate in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University. She is currently working on a memoir, which is largely a meditation on grief, trauma, and memory. She has struggled with the stigma of writing about personal tragedy, so she chose to create a safe space where grief can be discussed openly through art across all genres and media.

Guidelines

The Grief Diaries is a brand new independent online journal interested in exhibiting writing and other forms of art that center on the concept of grief/mourning/loss. We are open to submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photography, artwork, etc. that speak to the experience of dealing with loss of any kind. Submission guidelines are flexible: we know that grief looks different to everyone, so we just want our journal to reflect what grief means to you, no matter the form, style, or genre.

Please send relevant submissions by email at griefdiary@gmail.com

We are looking to publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photography, and artwork that relates in some way to grief/loss/mourning. The term “grief” is open to interpretation. We are looking for powerful, moving works of art that speak to the incredible journey of living after we have lost.

There are no preferences in terms of formatting or style. The grieving process looks different to everyone, so we want the work in our magazine to reflect that.

We accept submissions on a rolling basis. We have a very small team (one person!) so please be patient. You will receive a response as soon as possible.

Please understand that we cannot pay contributors at this time.

Visit The Grief Diaries at http://www.thegriefdiaries.org/

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