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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Oyez Review
Friday Call for Submissions Love!
Oyez Review
Submissions Now live!
Submission Guidelines
Oyez Review accepts previously unpublished submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction,poetry, and art. There are no restrictions on style, theme, or subject matter. Oyez Reviewis open for submissions from August 1st to October 1st each year, but please check each genre category, as certain genres may close earlier than others. The journal seeks First North American Serial Rights on all submissions, in addition to the requisite digital rights to distribute each issue of the journal as an e-book. Simultaneous submissions in any category are not accepted.
Format
All Manuscripts:
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Standard font and font size.
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8.5″ x 11″ white paper is preferred.
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction:
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Typed and double-spaced.
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No strict length restrictions, but because of space limitations, we are unlikely to publish manuscripts longer than 15-20 pages (4,500-5,500 words).
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Up to five poems, not to exceed ten pages total.
We feature one visual artist per issue, whose work appears on the front and back covers of the magazine and in an eight-page spread at the magazine’s center. We feature both color and black-and-white work. Please send us a thoughtful sampling of about thirty high-resolution images. We cannot consider work less than 300 dpi. We prefer to receive your work via Submittable, but if you are submitting by mail, please send your art on a CD or a flash drive, and be sure to include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Do not send original artworks.
How To Submit
The annual reading period is August 1 through October 1. Submissions received before or after this period will be returned unread. Simultaneous submissions and previously published work will not be considered.
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Submit to us online via Submittable
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Or you can send your work via snail mail:
Oyez Review
Attn: Janet Wondra
Department of Literature & Languages
Roosevelt University
430 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60605
If submitting via postal mail, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope with sufficient postage for reply.
Need to get in touch?
If you have any additional questions, e-mail at: oyezreview@roosevelt.edu
Oyez Review Website: https://oyezreview.wordpress.com/
Special Thursday Call for Submissions :-) Shapeshifting
Little Patuxent Review
Seeking Works that Witness Shape Shifting
Submissions
Little Patuxent Review will accept submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and artwork for the Winter 2016 Myth issue.
Mythology both shapes and reflects culture—forming a bridge between individual and universal experience. How do you cross the bridge from past to present—or from individual to universal? How do you travel the mythic quality of life? LPR seeks works that witness shape shifting in micro and macro ways. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel prize in literature suggests: “The writer who shuts himself up in a room and goes on a journey inside will, over the years, discover literature’s eternal rule; he/she must have the artistry to tell their own stories as if they were other people’s stories, and to tell other people’s stories as their own…”
Submissions are open from August 1, 2015 to October 24, 2015.
Little Patuxent Review is a community-based publication focused on writers and artists from the Mid-Atlantic region, but all excellent work originating in the United States will be considered.
Although our issues are organized around themes, we allow considerable leeway in how contributors interpret them in order to ensure access to the broadest range of high-quality work.
Submissions details here: http://littlepatuxentreview.org/
Yay! Publication in one of my favorite journals!
So thrilled to be included in the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts from Matter Press 🙂 Thanks to the editors and rock on!
A Lil Something Published at Life in 10 Minutes
Thanks to Valley for including me at Life in 10 Minutes 🙂
http://www.lifein10minutes.com/your-10/2015/8/11/brother-bill
Monday Must Read! Ellen Hagan: Hemisphere and Crowned
Monday Must Read!
This weeek, meet Ellen Hagan, writer, performer, and educator. Her latest collection of poetry Hemisphere was released from Northwestern University Press, Spring 2015. Ellen’s poems and essays can be found in the pages of Creative Nonfiction, Underwired Magazine, She Walks in Beauty (edited by Caroline Kennedy), Huizache, Small Batch, and Southern Sin. Her first collection of poetry, Crowned was published by Sawyer House Press in 2010.
Ellen recently joined the poetry faculty at West Virginia Wesleyan in their low-residency MFA program. She teaches Memoir, Poetry & Nature, and co-leads the Alice Hoffman Young Writer’s Retreat at Adelphi University. She is Poetry Chair of the DreamYard Project. A proud Kentucky writer, Ellen is a member of the Affrilachian Poets, Conjure Women, and is co-founder of the girlstory collective. She lives with her husband and daughters in New York City.
Website
Buy Local
Hemisphere: Poems | IndieBound
Review
BOOK: Ellen Hagan’s ‘Hemisphere’ – LEO Weekly
Duende Literary Magazine
Friday Call for Submissions Love! Sediments Literary-Arts Journal
Friday Call for Submissions Love!
Sediments Literary-Arts Journal
About
Sediments Literary-Arts Journal is a quarterly online literary journal that features work from new and emerging writers and artists as well as the established ones who inspire them. We understand how hard it is to get that first publication under your belt. The process can sometimes be disheartening. Unsure of what publishers really want, new artists can be blown with the wind, changing their aesthetic and losing their passion in order to conform to standards they think publishers want. Here at Sediments, we provide a platform where you can deposit your artistic style. We want your submissions to be compelling, thought-provoking, and force us to question our reality. We love diversity, and we are obsessed with controversy. Help us build a rock of unpublished artists whose voices are finally scratching the surface of the literary sphere. We accept poetry, flash fiction, short stories, and art.
Submit to Sediments
Sediments Literary-Arts Journal accepts poetry, short stories, and art. Accepted work will be published to the homepage every Sunday at 11AM, as well as be collected into a quarterly, digital zine. View previous issues here.
What We Want…
Art
- Please submit your paintings, illustrations, drawings, digital media, photography, etc.
- You may submit up to 15 pieces. We most likely will select more than one, and we want a lot to choose from.
- Include your preferred name, third-person biography, the preferred title(s) of your piece(s), and the medium you used (photography, acrylic on canvas, etc.) in your cover letter.
- Artwork should be high-resolution digital copies.
- Images of your artwork must be in jpeg, png, or tiff format.
- All submitted artwork will automatically be considered for the cover art of that issue.
Poetry
- Please submit 3-5 poems of any length (keeping in mind that shorter poems have a higher chance of being published) in ONE Word document (DOC or DOCX only).
- Separate ONE poem per page.
- We’d love to see prose/narrative or lyrical poems and poems that experiment with form.
- Submit your poems about anything. We accept poems on a variety of topics, humorous or serious. We’re not against love poems, but give those love poems some edge, something we’ve never seen before!
Fiction
- Please submit ONE short story up to 3,500 words or no more than THREE flash fiction pieces up to 1,000 words each.
- Flash fiction pieces should be in ONE document. Each story should start on a new page.
- Submit your fiction in Word documents only (DOC or DOCX).
- Your pieces should be well-written, adult literary fiction.
- Although we welcome genres like science fiction, horror, fantasy, and even erotica, your stories should be written within the scope of adult literary fiction with elements of the aforementioned genres very subtle.
- Formatting should be in 12-point Times New Roman or a font that is easy to read, with one-inch margins and double-spaced.
- Please include the word count in the top left-hand margin of the first page.
Read Current Issue of Sediments Literary-Arts Journal: http://sedimentslit.com/project-type/issue-four/
A VERY Special Special Call for Submissions: HeartWood: Getting to the Heart of the Matter
Why is this one special special?
Because in the company of an amazing group of people, this Call for Submissions is coming directly from me!
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Allow me to introduce
HeartWood
an online literary journal in association with West Virginia Wesleyan’s Low-Residency MFA program, publishes twice yearly, in April and October. Our inaugural issue will go live April 2016.
General Submissions
We accept submissions year round through Submittable, and welcome previously unpublished poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, from both established and emerging writers.
What We Want:
We are interested in writing that pushes into, dares to reveal, its own truth, that takes emotional risks, that gets to the heart of the matter.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, provided you notify us if the work is accepted elsewhere.
We also welcome queries from Appalachian artists (writers, visual artists, musicians, performers, folk artists, etc) interested in being included in our Appalachian Arts section.
Submission Details
Prose submissions, fiction or nonfiction, should be 3000 words or less.
Fiction: Fiction submissions may include short stories, flash fiction, or novel excerpts if the excerpt can stand alone. You may submit more than one piece of flash fiction, as long as the total word count does not exceed 3000 words.
Creative Nonfiction: We’re open to a wide range of nonfiction, with the exception of academic articles, or that which would be considered more traditionally journalistic. Personal essay, memoir, lyric, literary journalism, or some blurring in between, are all acceptable.
Poetry: Poets should submit no more than 3-5 single-spaced poems at a time. Include all poems in a single document for upload. Lyric, narrative, experimental, we’re open to all variations of the poetic voice.
Surprise us. Make us think. Make us feel. Make our hearts race.
Appalachian Arts Interviews
We also welcome queries from Appalachian artists (writers, visual artists, musicians, performers, folk artists, etc) interested in being included in our Appalachian Arts section. We define Appalachian artists as an artist who is heavily influenced by the Appalachian region and its traditions, history, and people. At HeartWood, we are looking for artists who take these traditions and speak to them in a new and unexpected way.
To query about possible inclusion in the Appalachian Arts section: Submit the following in one document (doc, docx) through the Appalachian Arts link on our Submittable page:
- Artist bio
- Artist statement addressing what being an “Appalachian artist” means to you, how you uniquely define yourself as an Appalachian artist, and how your connection to Appalachia as you see/define it connects (or doesn’t) to your work.
- At least one link to where artwork or samples can be seen/heard (artist website, other publications, YouTube, etc).
If we’re interested, based on the query, editors will email requesting additional information and work sample.
What We’ll Do
Submissions will be responded to within three months. If you haven’t heard from us after three months, feel free to inquire by sending us a note through Submittable.
If your work is accepted, HeartWood acquires first North American rights. All rights revert to the author upon publication, but we do ask for first publication attribution in any future publications. We also reserve the right to include accepted pieces in any future anthologies or promotions.
If we have passed on a submission, please wait 6 months before submitting again.
Submit here:
http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/submit/
Write on! We can’t wait to hear from you!
Two New Publications :-) Grateful to Generous Editors
My house concert tour isn’t over, but has been put on hold while my oldest sister, a tiny fierce woman named Andrea but whom we call Crickett because she’s only 4’9 and quick as all get out 🙂 and who has worked as a nurse for more than forty years, primarily attending to those at the end of their journey, those tender hands midwifing soul after soul after soul into the next life, has been battling cancer herself. Twelve years older than me, she wagged that little finger at me, touting her position as ‘the elder’ in our family now, and told me I ‘better not be neglecting that writin!’ So, while my travel has been limited mostly to running back and forth from Virginia to North Carolina, I have been sending these crazy lil prose pomes out into the world.
“A Chant Against Lonely” at Josephine Quarterly (This poem will be included in my book, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, coming out from FutureCycle Press in 2016)
http://issuu.com/josephinequarterly/docs/summer_2015_issue/5?e=6563413%2F14573219
The Girl Who Read the Land” at Sediments Literary-Arts Journal (This poem is included in my most recent book, The Night I Heard Everything, available now from FutureCycle Press)
http://sedimentslit.com/portfolio/the-girl-who-read-the-land-mary-carroll-hackett/
I’m very grateful to the kind editors who have made homes for some of them. ❤
Monday Must Read! Marcene Gandolfo: Angles of Departure
Monday Must Read!
This week, meet Marcene Gandolfo. Her debut book, Angles of Departure, recently won Foreword Reviews’ Silver Book of the Year Award in Poetry. Marcene’s poems have been published widely in literary journals, including Poet Lore, Bellingham Review, Bayou, DMQ Review, and Paterson Literary Review. She has taught writing and literature at several northern California colleges.
Get Marcene’s Book: http://www.amazon.com/Angles-Departure-Marcene-Gandolfo/dp/1625490658
Marcene’s Website
http://www.marcenegandolfo.com/
Reviews of Marcene’s Book:
http://www.sundresspublications.com/stirring/archives/v17/e7/gandolfo.htm
More from Marcene Online:
Bellingham Review
http://bhreview.org/2014/10/05/after/
http://bhreview.org/2014/10/05/again/
http://bhreview.org/2014/10/05/broken-chord/
Jet Fuel Review
http://www.jetfuelreview.com/previous-issues/issue-8-fall-2014/poetry/marcene-gandolfo/
DMQ Review
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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