CALL-4-SUBMISSIONS: The Southern Review

The Southern Review: Published Quarterly at the State Louisiana University

Submission Guidelines for Poetry and Fiction

The Southern Review publishes fiction, poetry, and excerpts from novels
in progress. We subscribe to the set of standards for good art staked
out by John Gardner in his book On Becoming a Novelist: the work must
(1) create a vivid and continuous dream; (2) demonstrate authorial generosity; (3) reveal intellectual and emotional significance; (4) be rendered with elegance and efficiency; and (5) exhibit an element of strangeness.

Although we are willing to publish experimental writing that appears to have a valid artistic purpose, The Southern Review also agrees with Flannery O’Connor’s observation that a writer is free to try and get away with whatever he wants, but that it had been her experience that there wasn’t much one could get away with. We are, finally, looking to publish the best work that arrives in the mail. Poetry lengths preferred are one to four pages; fiction, four to eight thousand words.

Manuscripts must be typewritten—fiction double-spaced—and accompanied by self-addressed, stamped envelopes with sufficient postage to cover return.
Only occasionally, at the editors’ discretion, will a response be e-mailed to
an author. We are sorry, but we cannot accept international postage coupons in lieu of an SASE. Queries are not necessary. Only previously unpublished works will be considered. Allow at least two months for editorial decisions.

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SHORT STORY AWARD for NEW WRITERS category:

Spring: February 1 – March 31. Results will be posted at http://www.glimmertrain.org/ on July 1.

Fall: August 1 – September 30. Results will be posted at http://www.glimmertrain.org/ on January 2.

Reading fee: $15 per story.

Prizes: 1st place wins $1,200, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies of that issue. 2nd/ 3rd-place: $500/$300, respectively.

Other considerations:

Open only to writers whose fiction has not appeared in any publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Entries must be entirely unpublished.)
Stories not to exceed 12,000 words.

I suspect that more than a few editors fail to read beyond the first paragraph of stories sent them by unknown writers. Not so with the editors of Glimmer Train—they seek out new voices in fiction and provide them with valuable exposure. Shortly after my work appeared in Glimmer Train, a collection of my short stories was accepted for publication. —George Makana Clark

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Welcome to Duotrope's Digest, a database of over 1650 current markets for short fiction, poetry, and novels/collections.

CALL-4-SUBMISSIONS: Experimental Fiction

Literary Chaos is looking for courageous, experimental writers in the spirit of Julio Cortazar, Donald Barthelme, and Italo Calvino. We will publish fiction authors and poets monthly.

Please do the necessary research to know what an experimental writer is.

Play with form, language, style, anything—and make it brilliant. When submitting to Lit Chaos, please do not send previously published work or simultaneous submissions. If you feel we have kept a piece for too long, tell us you are submitting it elsewhere. We should respond within a month although anything is possible. See more info for more info. After that:
Send submissions to editor@litchaos.com

In the subject line of your email, please include:

Submission — category — title.
For example, if you are submitting a poem titled "The Pack of Peanuts ", write:
"Submission — Poetry — The Pack of Peanuts"
In the body of the email, paste your story or poem(s) and attach it as a Word document with no smart quotes, please.
Include a short biography, and (if you think it's necessary) a one sentence summary of the piece.
For more info click here.
Also, consider our Cronopios' Flash Fiction Prize. The winner will earn cash and outstanding bragging rights! See Contest Rules!

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Third Coast publishes poetry, fiction (including traditional and experimental fiction, shorts, and novel excerpts, but not genre fiction), creative nonfiction (including reportage, essay, and memoir), drama (including both performed and unperformed pieces) and translations. We encourage new as well as established writers.
We recommend you look at an issue before submitting. You may order single issues (a current issue is $8; a back issue is $6) by sending a check made out to Third Coast; see address below. Write “Sample Current Issue” or “Sample Back Issue” on the envelope.
Third Coast considers only unpublished work. We accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you notify us immediately if your piece is accepted elsewhere.

Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE). Submissions without SASEs or international reply coupons cannot be acknowledged or returned. Direct your submission to the appropriate editors:

Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry or Drama Third CoastDepartment of EnglishWestern Michigan UniversityKalamazoo, MI 49008-5331


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Tahoma West Submission Guidelines

Accepting:
Any thought expressed in a creative, unique, specific, and purposeful way!
Previously unpublished work only in the following genres:
Fiction
There is a 3000 word limit on fiction writing, which includes short stories, experimental fiction, humor, stage plays, screenplays, comedies, horror, romantic, western, science fiction, or any imaginary writing.

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Coming April 4, 2007

SHALLA CHATS with Alice Andrews

“Biofiction Introduced”

by

Shalla DeGuzman

First of all, who’s Alice?


Alice teaches psychology with an evolutionary lens at the

State University of New York at New Paltz, and is the editor/publisher of Entelechy: Mind & Culture, an evolutionarily-informed interdisciplinary online journal. She is also the author of Trine Erotic, a novel that explores evolutionary psychology and other behavioral science themes.

Alice is currently working on a book (based on her essay with the same title, published at

Metanexus) called An Evolutionary Mind

(to be published as part of Imprint Academic's series: "Societas: Essays in Political and Cultural Criticism"), and plans to begin writing another novel soon.

only at:

www.shalladeguzman.com

What does Entelechy publish?

Heard of BIOFICTION?

Biofiction is not a neologism. (See below for its other uses and meanings.)

In the sense that I am using it, however, it is new; it refers to fiction or creative nonfiction that uses biological, neurological, psychological and/or evolutionary language and/or lenses. That is, a work of biofiction might explicitly deal with biological and /or evolutionary ideas, or it might incorporate biolanguage (see below). It may also do both, as my writing often, but not always, does.

For a while I used the term evolutionary fiction when writing about my own fiction and that of some others; but I soon realized that that term was too limiting (though I still use it in specific instances). At the same time that I felt evolutionary fiction was too restrictive, I was engaged in thinking about literature from a Darwinian and cognitive perspective and doing so primarily through a list called biopoets.

-Alice Andrews, editor, Entelechy: Mind & Culture

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Modern Drunkard Magazine (does not publish experimental fiction, but here is what it does like)

Make sure your piece is specifically about drinking. Specifically. Send your submissions to mailto:editor@moderndrunkardmagazine.comin either .txt or Microsoft Word .doc format. There's a large backlog, so it may be a while before you hear from us. If at all. If you don't hear from us within four months, you may deduce your submission wasn't selected. We edit for content and space, sometimes rather heavily. Be prepared for changes.

We accept all manner of fiction, though experimental fiction is less likely to be published. Hemingway, F.Scott, Mencken and Bukowski are good models to follow. The story should be imbued with drinking. If alcohol hasn't reared its lovely head by the second page, you're on the wrong track. Putting a drink in the hand of your protagonist does not a drinking story make. If you can replace the booze with coffee and the plot isn't affected, you're trying to pull a fast one. Avoid writing about writing and being a writer. And while it's commendable that you wrote the piece while hammered, that's no excuse for haphazard grammar and bizarre punctuation. Leave that to us, we're quite good at it. Exclamation points do not make a sentence more powerful. Not even triple exclamation points. The vast majority of our submissions are fiction, so realize the competition is ferocious. One to four thousand words.

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CALL-4-SUBMISSIONS: The Laurel Review

The Laurel Review prints poetry, short fiction, essays and reviews. Aesthetic schools don't matter to us; what matters is that the poem or story or essay presents a real investigation of the art and what it is to be human. We read from September 1 to May 1, and we try to reply promptly, though we don't always manage that. We prefer a submission be three to five poems or a single story. Please include a brief cover letter, and a SASE for our reply.

Send Submissions to:

GreenTower PressDepartment of EnglishNorthwest Missouri State University800 University DriveMaryville, MO 64468

In short, we want good poems and stories, we hope to be able to recognize them when we get them, and we print what we believe to be the best work submitted.

Best Wishes
The Editors The Laurel Review

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Coming April 4, 2007

SHALLA CHATS with Alice Andrews

“Biofiction Introduced”

by

Shalla DeGuzman

First of all, who’s Alice?


Alice teaches psychology with an evolutionary lens at the

State University of New York at New Paltz, and is the editor/publisher of Entelechy: Mind & Culture, an evolutionarily-informed interdisciplinary online journal. She is also the author of Trine Erotic, a novel that explores evolutionary psychology and other behavioral science themes.

Alice is currently working on a book (based on her essay with the same title, published at

Metanexus) called An Evolutionary Mind

(to be published as part of Imprint Academic's series: "Societas: Essays in Political and Cultural Criticism"), and plans to begin writing another novel soon.

only at:

www.shalladeguzman.com

What does Entelechy publish?

Heard of BIOFICTION?

Biofiction is not a neologism. (See below for its other uses and meanings.)

In the sense that I am using it, however, it is new; it refers to fiction or creative nonfiction that uses biological, neurological, psychological and/or evolutionary language and/or lenses. That is, a work of biofiction might explicitly deal with biological and /or evolutionary ideas, or it might incorporate biolanguage (see below). It may also do both, as my writing often, but not always, does.

For a while I used the term evolutionary fiction when writing about my own fiction and that of some others; but I soon realized that that term was too limiting (though I still use it in specific instances). At the same time that I felt evolutionary fiction was too restrictive, I was engaged in thinking about literature from a Darwinian and cognitive perspective and doing so primarily through a list called biopoets.

-Alice Andrews, editor, Entelechy: Mind & Culture

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***********************************

Read Shalla?

"The Fish In My Bed"

by

Shalla de Guzman

Shalla LIVE! On MadHatters Review Issue 6

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And, ever dated someone from online?

E-Crush

by

Shalla de Guzman

now on Word Riot: good writing, no remorse

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Joyce Carol Oates, what a talented writer!

Have you read her short story, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

How about, The Assignation: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates

Editorial Reviews from Amazon.com

In 44 short narratives, "Oates has captured precisely an essential presence and instant in the lives of her characters," commented PW. " Logical as daydreams, with endings similarly as interrupted or unforeseen, these stories reveal a master of the form, writing at her efficient, full-tilt best ." Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. See all Editorial Reviews

Joyce Carol Oates and Literary Journals that Feature her work

And did you know???

Here's one run by Raymond Smith and Joyce Carol Oates ONTARIO REVIEW PRESS and Ontario Review.

For more: JCO

Like Experimental Fiction?

Check out Gertrude Stein and her use of Cubism

Tender Buttons: Gertrude Stein Online. in-depth literary analysis on Stein.
Gertrude Stein. Stein links.
Gertrude Stein Resources. A list of useful Stein links & info.
Gertrude Stein Collection at Bartleby.com. full text of Stein's prose poem "Tender Buttons" and her classic work of fiction Three Lives.
Gertrude Stein (University of Pennsylvania). A compilation of Stein original works.
Gertrude Stein Quotations (MemorableQuotations.com).

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CALL-4-SUBMISSIONS: Mid American Review

Mid-American Review is an international literary journal dedicated to publishing the best contemporary fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and translations.

Founded in 1981, MAR is an official publication of the Department of English and the College of Arts & Sciences at Bowling Green State University.

MAR is proud of its tradition of featuring the work of established artists. Writers such as Carl Dennis, Rita Dove, Stephen Dunn, Linda Gregg, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Mary Oliver, Richard Russo, William Stafford, James Tate, Melanie Rae Thon, David Foster Wallace, and C.K. Williams have all appeared in MAR. But we also pride ourselves on our publication of new and up-and-coming writers, case in point our recent Unpublished Writers Issue.

Lastly, MAR is dedicated to introducing non-English speaking voices to our audience through our translation chapbook series. Work from MAR has been reprinted in The Best American Poetry, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Pushcart: Best of the Small Presses, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, New Stories from the South, Poetry Daily, and Harper's Magazine.

MAR also sponsors the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award, James Wright Poetry Award, and Creative Nonfiction Award, as well as the Fineline Competition for Prose Poems, Short Shorts, and Anything In Between

Submission Guidelines:

Stories, poems, and essays will generally be returned or accepted within one to five months, depending on our publication schedule. MAR does accept and read submissions year round. As of now, we do not accept electronic submissions.

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