SCHUYKILL VALLEY JOURNAL Seeks Submissions

The Schuykill Valley Journal comes out in the spring and fall, and publishes poetry, short stories, and critical essays. We prefer previously unpublished work, though published work is acceptable (indicate where previously published). Simultaneous submissions are OK (please notify us if your work is published elsewhere). All submissions will be considered for our print and online journals.

Poetry: Send 3-5 poems, contact information and bio in the body of an e-mail to svjpoetry[at]yahoo[dot]com. Please include your last name and the words "Poetry Submission" in the subject line. Submission without bio and complete contact information will be unread. Send only your best work.

Please send poetry submissions to Bill Wunder at the follow address.

Bill Wunder, Poetry Editor
svjpoetry[at]yahoo[dot]com

Submissions may be sent by regular mail, but email is preferred. Send to:

Bill Wunder, Poetry Editor
Schuylkill Valley Journal
24 Jay St.
Feasterville, PA 19053

Short Stories: 1-2 stories. Short-shorts of approximately 1,000 words; short stories of approximately 2,000 words. We like fiction that tells a story or illuminates a character. We look for original use of language, fresh voices and diversity. We also seek writers who have insights into the mysteries of every day life, relationships and the world around us. Stories can pose questions and answer them or not; however, they must be well-crafted. Stories must be typed, double-spaced, one side only with name, address, word count and bio on the first page.

Please send fiction to Fran Metzman at the following address.

Fran Metzman, Fiction Editor
Schuylkill Valley Journal
1900 JF Kennedy Boulevard/301
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Essays: should be no more than 3,000 words on topics of literary or artistic interest (critical interpretations of writers, artists and their work, historical perspectives, personal reflections, etc.) Essays must be typed, double-spaced, one side only with name, home address and email address, word count and bio on the first page.

Please send nonfiction to Schuykill Valley Journal at the following address.

Peter Krok, Editor, Non-Fiction
Schuylkill Valley Journal
240 Golf Hills Road
Havertown, PA 1083

General: Do not send us your only copy. Submission will be recycled. We will correspond to you by email. Payment is one copy of SVJ upon publication. Additional copies are $5 each. All rights revert to the author upon publication. The cost of Schuykill Valley Journal is $7 an issue and $9 is sent via mail. For other information about the journal, contact Peter Krok, the editor and Humanities Director of the Manayunk Art Center (MAC), at macpoet1[at]aol[dot]com
or call the MAC at 212.482.3363.

To learn more about us and to read our on-line edtion visit the SVJ website at:
http://www.svjlit.com/

THINK JOURNAL Now Accepts Email Submissions

THINK JOURNAL is a quartely review of poetry, short stories, novel excerpts, and essays.

Submissions are welcome from rational thinkers who believe that words have meaning, and that when you deal with words, you are dealing with the mind. This journal is for those who Think. In order to do this, one must first have an I. The basic literary values that will be considered are: content and meaning; words that are logically conceived and arranged; evidence of an active imagination; structure; as well as the integration of emotional and intellectual facets. The central criterion for acceptance is merit, which will be judged based on two aspects: content and literary artistry.

"As the name might suggest, the poetry is formal, metered and carefully thought out, often dealing with classical or philosophical themes. The essays support the editorial stance. Yet the fiction (one story, one Chapter 1) is more slice-of-life."--Think Journal 1.1 Review in Iconoclast #101

Submission Guidelines
Always include a SASE with snail mail submissions. Cover letter and brief biography preferred. Please include your email address on the cover page for further communications. Include your name and address on each page of your submission.

Alternatively we now accept email submission adressed to: thinkjournal[at]yahoo[dot]com
Please include the following in the body of your email:

• Your name, mailing address and email address.
• A brief biography.
• Your work copied and pasted into the body of the email. (No attachments, please.)

Format: Quarterly print literary journal.
Deadlines: Reads submissions year round.
Response Time: one or two months.
Publication Date: 6-12 months.
Payment: 1 contributor's copy.
Reprints: No previously published work.
Simultaneous Submissions: Please don't.
Rights: Revert to author upon publication.

Poetry
Submit three to five pomes, no restrictions on lenghth. Interested in seeing longer poems.

Short Stories
Submit one story, 2,000 - 3,000 words (sometimes will consider longer it the space allows). Will not consider anything under 2,000 words, unless the piece can say everything it has to say in that amount of words.

Novel Excerpts
3,000 + words. Please send a summary of what the novel is about the general theme/purpose of the piece of work, and where the excerpt fits into the novel. Open to accepting a work in progress. Open to serializing.

Essays
Submit one or two essays, under 2,500 words on any intellectual topic.

Art Work
The journal will accept one original piece of art that will be printed in black and white only, and will be showcased on the front cover of each issue. Please mail a query letter first with samples. If your work is accepted, you will need to email the artwork as an attachment.

Letter to the Editor
The journal will publish one letter to the editor in each issue that comments on the previous issue, whether about an individual work or the issue as whole. Letters will onlu be accepted if appropriate, and respectful to the journal and the contributing artists.

Please be aware that upon acceptance, your work may be discussed in a forthcoming issue.

Christine Yurick, Editor
THINK JOURNAL
P.O. Box 454
Downingtown PA 19335
thinkjournal[at]yahoo[dot]com
http://web.mac.com/christineyurick/Think_Journal/Home_Page.html
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Think-Journal/54153747671


Think Journal is published by Reason Publishing LLC, and is supported by sponsorships from individuals. Founding editor Christine Yurick, an ambitious entrepreneur, also writes poetry and is currently working on her first novel.

Information about submissions and subscriptions can be found on Think Journal’s website, http://web.mac.com/christineyurick/Think_Journal/Home_Page.html. Inquiries, requests for guidelines and subscriptions can be sent to: Think Journal, Christine Yurick, Editor; P.O. Box 454, Downingtown PA 19335

SP Quill Seeks Etherees by August 31, 2009

The SP Quill, a biannual magazine from Shadow Poetry, is now a perfect-bound 6" x 9" biannual magazine for poets, writers, and poetry lovers filled with poetry, stories, articles, and fun. It is an interactive magazine, as well as one you can curl up with for bedtime reading.

Two issues will be offered yearly to be released in the months of May and November respectively. Issue #21, celebrating the cinquain form was released this month, May 2009. Issue #22 will come out in November 2009 and will celebrate the etheree. Submissions are being seeked for Issue #22 through August 31, 2009. You can submit up to 3 unpublished etherees in their final well-edited version, with a cover letter, and a short poet profile written in 3rd person for consideration by e-mail to spquill@shadowpoetry.com or by using their electronic form. For complete details please visit the SP Quill page at ShadowPoetry.com:

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/magazine/spquill.html.

An etheree consists of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables.

Named for the Arkansas poet that developed this from, Etheree Taylor Armstrong, the etheree consists of ten lines of unmetered and unrhymed verse, the first line having one syllable with each succeeding line adding a syllable, for a poem consisting of 55 syllables.

This concise form is meant to focus on one idea or subject.

Other short poetic forms (under 30 lines), short/flash stories, poet/author profiles, personal quotes, essays, articles, or poetic features will be considered should they be submitted.

Submission Deadlines:

August 31 - Volume 6, No. 2 (Issue #22)

NOTE: As this is a small press operation, SP Quill does not pay its contributors nor does it provide free contributor copies.

The SP Quill will have first-time publishing rights to all accepted material until after the release of the said issue when copyrights will revert back to the original author/artist so that he/she may republish the same material elsewhere. We also reserve the right to republish any work that has been accepted into a SP Quill Magazine for any furture SP Quill or Shadow Poetry publication without prior notification. Again, contributor copies will not be given or supplied to any poet, author and/or artist appearing within these publications. Neither Shadow Poetry nor the SP Quill will ever take or sell the copyrights to anyone’s works.

Acceptance letters will be sent out to all poets and authors appearing within an issue at least three weeks before the magazine is scheduled for release. For works submitted long before the deadline, we will respond to works within one month.




Also, please submit your Asian influenced verse and haiga to our sister publication White Lotus, a classy 5.5" x 8.5" chapbook style biannual magazine featuring haiku, senryu, tanka and haiga. Taiga, sumi-e and haiku related articles and/or book reviews are also welcome. Two issues will be offered yearly: Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer of corresponding seasonal themed haiku, senryu, tanka, and haiga released in August and February respectively.

Submission Deadlines:

June 30 - Fall/Winter Issue
December 31 - Spring/Summer Issue

For more details visit: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/magazine/whitelotus.html
E-mail: whitelotus@shadowpoetry.com

HEROIN LOVE SONGS: Call for XX Chromosome Edition - Deadline July 1

Heroin Love Songs: Call for XX Chromosome Edition - Deadline July 1


Specific Submission Request to the Homogametic SexShare

Definition: The XY sex-determination system is the sex-determination system found in humans, most other mammals, some insects (Drosophila) and some plants (Ginkgo). In this system, females have two of the same kind of sex chromosome (XX), and are called the homogametic sex. Males have two distinct sex chromosomes (XY), and are called the heterogametic sex.

Idea: Based on a conversation I had on the radio the other day I thought it would be interesting to have an all-female, XX chromosome edition of the underread, never immitated, generally ignored HEROIN LOVE SONGS. What I am looking for is hard hitting, completely honest, fearless to a fault writing on any topic, theme, subject, idea, or concept. There are no limits on language, structure, style, devision, presentation and whatnot. And all from the female POV.

Submission:

Poem: 3-5 EMBEDDED into an email to jackhenry951@hotmail.com. Make sure I can tell when one poem ends and the next one begins. This seems to confuse people.

Prose: Short fiction is better, no more than 2-3 per submission. Same email address. Still embedded.

Other: If there is an "other" and it is good, send it. Same email address. Still embedded.

NO simultaneous submissions
NO previously published work

Deadline: July 1, 2009

So pass it along to anyone you think might be interested. I will present it as a hardcopy, a PDF download and an e-book.

Publication date: August 1, 2009 (Hopefully)

Cheers

any questions or thoughts send them to the email above.

Again, jackhenry951@hotmail.com


jck

www.deadbeatpress.blogspot.com
www.heroinlovesongsjournal.blogspot.com
issuu.com/jackhenry951
jackhenry951@hotmail.com

Bicycle Review Seeks Submissions

Bicycle Review Seeks Submissions for its Inaugural Issue
Wanted:
Contemporary Poetry & Fiction
General Intellectual Promiscuity

The Bicycle Review is seeking poetry, fiction, and essays for it's first issue, coming out June 15th.

Submit your poetry,fiction, essays to thebicyclereview@gmail.com. Please include a brief but entertaing bio.

Deadline June 1st.

The Bicycle Review seeks no publishing rights of any kind.

Join us on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1776349658

J. de Salvo, editor
thebicyclereview@gmail.com
http://thebicyclereview.synthasite.com/

LIPS 30/31 Publication and Celebration

LIPS #30/31 Publication Celebration in Clifton, NJ

Stanley Barkan · Mark Brunetti · David Stanford Burr,
Linda A. Cronin · Jessica G. deKoninck · Suzanne Rae Deshchidn
Aleksey Dayen · Marilyn S. Gelman · Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Jim Gwyn · Gloria Rovder Healy · Mark Hillringhouse,
Tina Kelley · Adele Kenny · Deborah LaVeglia · Michelle Lerner
Sheila O'Neil Massoni · F.L. Niccoletti · Susan Rappaport
Christine Redman-Waldeyer · Susanna Rich · Susan Tepper
John J. Trause · Bruce Weber
plus surprise guests

@
Thursday, May 14, 7:30P.M.
Barnes & Noble
395 Route 3 East
( Clifton Commons)
Clifton, NJ

Free Open Reading ( time permitting)

Contact: Laura Boss ( Editor) ( 201) 662-1303
or Store :(973) 779-5500

Lips, a magazine of poetry founded in 1981 by Laura Boss, has published poems by: Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg, Ruth Stone, David Ignatow, Marge Piercy, Michael Benedikt, Nicholas Christopher, Anne Waldman, Ishmael Reed, Gregory Corso, Lyn Lifshin, Ted Berrigan, Paul Hoover, Jana Harris, Toi Derricotte, Joseph Bruchac, Alice Notley, Warren Woessner, Robert Phillips, Hal Sirowitz, Theodore Weiss, Alicia Ostriker, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Stanley H. Barkan, Michael Weaver, Molly Peacock & Richard Kostelanetz. For submission policy and subscription please visit http://home.earthlink.net/~poetry_magazine/Lips.html

Balkan Anthology seeks Haiku on War, Human Rights Violation and Discrimination

Spring evening.
The wheel of a troop carrier
crushes a lizard.

DIMITAR ANAKIEV, an independent filmmaker, was born in Belgrade in 1960. He is also a well-known haiku poet, a co-founder of World Haiku Association. His most cited haiku, written during the Yugoslav wars, 1992.

Dimitar Anakiev seeks haiku (preferably with English translation) for the Balkan haiku anthology on the topic of war, violations of human rights and discrimination:

ANTHOLOGY OF 50 BALKAN HAIKU
ABOUT WAR, VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS & DISCRIMINATION

Edited by: Dimitar Anakiev

Please email your submissions in the body of the email to Dimitar Anakiev at mao1935@live.com To avoid landing in the the spam folder please include the word "anthology" in the subject line.

Dimitar Anakiev
http://dimitar.anakiev.googlepages.com/home


Special thanks to Tatjana Debeljački for forwarding this submission call.

QUALE PRESS offers new eBook by Bob Heman

Sunday, April 26, 2009 2:06 AM

Subject: the first full length collection of my prose poems is now available as a free download

Hi Folks - this is just to let you all know that the first full-length collection of my prose poems, titled Demographics, or, The Hats They Are Allowed to Wear, has just been published by Gian Lombardo's Quale Press - it's available as a free downloadable e-book that you can read on line or print off or download onto your hard drive - just follow the link to http://www.quale.com/Demographics_BH.html

i hope you enjoy it - feel free to pass the word

and in case you missed it Quale also did a smaller collection of mine in 2007 which you can find at the end of this link: http://www.quale.com/How_BH.html

be well

- Bob


Bob Heman
clwnwr@earthlink.net

__________________________________________________________

Demographics, or, The Hats They Are Allowed to Wear
by Bob Heman

eBook, Free
Publication Date: April 2009
5 x 7 inches, 112 pages
PROSE POETRY
New from Quale Press

When is a door a door that is not a door? When is a door a door that is a door that is not a door? From a distance, Bob Heman’s prose poems in Demographics, or, The Hats They Are Allowed to Wear appear to be neat containers for singular thoughts, descriptions of objects or ideas. Strung together, these containers form a narrative, an allegory, perhaps, of men and forest and animals and ocean and stones, of the beginning or the end of time. In “Containers,” Heman writes, “The container contains what it contains.” This is more than a simple tautology — it is a clue, an urging, for the reader to take a closer look. Within Heman’s taut containers, surfaces start out straightforward, then refract; the natural order of perception subtly shifts. “The cars are placed where the roads are drawn,” “There were wings there waiting for a new animal to hold them down” — these are fervent synecdoches, where the replacement of part for whole disrupts established hierarchies. The guides supersede that which they’re guiding.

Rather than using language to create a new world, Heman uses language as a mirror held up to itself. Thus, the known world reveals itself anew. Like the best poetry, Heman’s masterful prose poems allow us to re-see the familiar. Whether revealing that “Each man has his own animal inside,” or suggesting that a buoy is “What the boat is,” Heman consistently shows us, in his own words, “The same room always different.”

© Quale Press LLC, 2009.

Reprinted from http://www.quale.com/Demographics_BH.html

PERSEPHONOUS BLUE Seeks Submissions by June 30, 2009

Persephonous Blue is a new literary publication that features confessional poetry and inspired short fiction. Inspired by the myth of Persephone, the Greek goddess of the underworld - a woman bound to darkness a third of her life. Persephonous Blue is raw, frank, and honest.

Persephonous Blue is about madness, darkness, revitalization, redemption. It is a literary publication for "she/he who destroys the light."

Persephonous Blue loves Allen Ginsberg, Riot Grrl, Liz Phair, Tori Amos, Ani DiFranco, Fiona Apple, Alanis Morrisette, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Anne Sexton, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, and Morrissey.

Persephonous Blue is edgy, passionate, ugly, beautiful, intense, at-your-throat, and heart-on-your-sleeve.

Persephonous Blue Quarterly
Currently Seeking Submissions

We are currently seeking submissions for our first volume. Previously published work is fine but please let us know where the piece has appeared. Ditto simultaneous submissions.

Deadline: June 30, 2009

Please send 3-5 poems or 2,000 words of fiction to:

TangledUpInBlueProductions@Gmail.com

Or snail mail (with SASE) to:

Persephonous Blue
c/o Tangled Up In Blue Productions
629 Grand Street
Brooklyn, New York 11211

Reprinted from http://www.janicebrabaw.com/Persephonous-Blue.html

New from Terrace Books: MY DIVA

Coming in May from UW Press...

“These deeply personal, campy, and insightful essays illuminate the eternal bond between gay men and their fabulous diva icons.”—Michael Musto

MY DIVA
65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them
Edited by Michael Montlack

Publication Date: May 7, 2009

ISBN: 978-0-299-23120-0, Cloth, $24.95, 320 pages
Terrace Books: A trade imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press

“I’m living for this book—What a thrill! Even if I wasn't one of the Divas myself I would be curling up with this tome and letting the multiple muses enthrall me. These women are lifelines to creativity, self-actualization and freedom of spirit. Uh-Mazing! ”—Justin Bond (a.k.a. Kiki Durane)

From Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Midler, and Diana Ross to Queen Elizabeth I, Julia Child, and Princess Leia, these divas have been sister, alter ego, fairy godmother, or model for survival to gay men and the closeted boys they once were. And anyone—straight or gay, young or old, male or female—who ever needed a muse, or found one, will see their own longing mirrored here as well.

These witty and poignant short essays explore reasons for diva-worship as diverse as the writers themselves. My Diva offers both depth and glamour as it pays tribute with joy, intelligence, and fierce, fierce love.

“Inspiration is contagious—and inspiration, excitement, and appreciation resonate through these essays. This is a story about how in the worst of times, there are the best of women—women in whom we find our courage and sometimes our heartbroken tenderness. My Diva is an act of love, well deserved and without reservation. Read it in the spirit in which it was made—this act of adoration, awe, and yes, love.”—Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina



Editor Michael Montlack splits his time between New York City, where he is professor of English at Berkeley College, and San Francisco. He has published two chapbooks of poetry, Girls, Girls, Girls and Cover Charge. This book was inspired by his love for Stevie Nicks.

MY DIVA
65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them
Edited by Michael Montlack

Publication Date: May 7, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-299-23120-0, Cloth, $24.95, 320 pages

Terrace Books – A Trade Imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press

“A completely fascinating and lovely book. In every case the diva is a kind of saint—for her suffering, for the emotional warble in her voice, as she sang, as she spoke those classic lines. It’s hard to miss the dovetailing of the gay male writer’s psyche and the voluptuous (much more than her body) voice of the diva. She shines her light on the way. Man, does she ever.”—Eileen Myles, author of Sorry, Tree

Featuring...

D. A. Powell on Eartha Kitt
Joseph Campana on Audrey Hepburn
Rigoberto González on Rocío Dúrcal
Michael Klein on Laura Nyro
Lloyd Schwartz on Gracie Allen
David Bergman on Lotta Lenya
Edward Field on Gloria Swanson
Kenji Oshima on Margaret Cho
Michael J. Andrews on Parker Posey
Brian Teare on Virginia Woolf
Forrest Hamer on Mahalia Jackson
Alfred Corn on Billie Holiday
Mark Doty on Grace Paley
Patrick Letellier on Queen Elizabeth I
Walter Holland on Marlene Dietrich
Michael Broder on Sappho
Michael Schiavi on Karen Black
Guillermo Castro on Evita
Peron Wayne Koestenbaum on Anna Moffo
Richard Blanco on Endora
Jonathan Howle on Patti LuPone
Regie Cabico on Nina Simone
Timothy Liu on Rickie Lee Jones
Lewis DeSimone on Auntie Mame
Christopher Murray on Margaret Dumont
Bill Fogle on Julia Child
Jason Schneiderman on Liza Minnelli
John Dimes on Björk
Christopher Lee Nutter on Sade
Jeff Oaks on Wonder Woman
David Trinidad on Joan Crawford versus Bette Davis . . .

________________________________________________________

Dear Friends;

Please join me in celebrating the publication of MY DIVA at one or both of the NYC DIVA EVENTS.

AND look for the piece on it in TIME OUT NEW YORK THIS WEEK!

NYC DIVA EVENTS:

APRIL 27 (Mon) 7pm. MY DIVA READING.
Barnes & Noble. 82nd &
Broadway. 2289 Broadway.
With Michael Klein, Walter Holland, Jason Schneiderman
& Michael Montlack.

MAY 13 (Wed) 6pm - 9pm. RECEPTION & READING.
Out Professionals My Diva Event.
At the LGBT Center: 208 West 13th Street. (West Village).
With Mark Wunderlich, Tim Liu, Michael Broder,
Richard Tayson, Steven Cordova & Michael Montlack.

Thanks and hope to see you,

Michael

PS Doing events in Fort Lauderdale, New Orleans, San Francisco, Rhode Island, Philadelphia, DC, Portland, Atlanta, and more soon (if you're not in NYC).

THE BEST OF STAIN Volume I Released 4/20/2009

In the fall of 2008, Janice Brabaw created the music and literary series Stained Glass Confessional in Brooklyn, New York. After nearly forty performers and features in Time Out, New York, The Greenline, The Brooklyn Eagle, AMNY, and The NY Daily News, Janice is proud to announce the release of the chapbook anthology, The Best of Stain, Volume One.

THE BEST OF STAIN, Volume I, Winter 08 - 09 (released on 4/20/2009), a chapbook anthology celebrating April is National Poetry Month, features many of the writers and performers from Janice Brabaw's An Echo, A Stain and Stained Glass Confessional performance & reading series at Stain Bar including Swapan Basu, Janice Brabaw, Patricia Carragon, Mike Fiorito, Roxanne Hoffman, Valerie Jupe, Laurel Kallen, Nina Karacosta, James Kass, Frank Kelly, Jee Leong Koh, Harry Bentivenga Lichtenstein, Nick Loss-Eaton (a.k.a. Leland Sundries), Jason Madison, Puma Perl, James Skidmore, Carrie VanDenburg, Darcie VanHamlin, and Joe Yoga. Edited by Janice Brabaw with an introduction by James Kass, Host of Stained Glass Confessional.

Available NOW through Paypal for $7 (includes shipping), or purchase for $5 at Stain Bar, 766 Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

To order and find out more about her music & literary series visit Ms. Brabaw's website at http://www.janicebrabaw.com/

CONCLAVE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS THRU JULY 1, 2009

CONCLAVE OPENS FOR SUBMISSIONS
APRIL 1, 2009 until JULY 1, 2009

Conclave: A Journal of Character is looking for character-driven writing and photography.

Conclave is an annual print journal that focuses on character-driven writing in short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and prose poems. Conclave also includes black and white photographs and excerpts from plays: monologues, scenes, single acts, or one-act plays.

This year Conclave is also awarding the 2009 Conclave Character Prizes in Fiction, Poetry, and Photography. All submissions will be accepted April 1 through July 1, 2009.

For more information, see online submission guidelines at www.conclavejournal.com

We're also on Twitter:
http://twitter. com/conclavejour nal

I hope to see some of your writing!
Thank you.

Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Editor
Conclave: A Journal of Character
http://www.conclavejournal.com

CONCLAVE: A Journal of Character
GUIDELINES
Conclave is an annual print journal that focuses on character-driven writing in short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and prose poems; we also print black and white photographs, and excerpts from plays: monologues, scenes, single acts, or one-act plays.

Conclave seeks writing that centers around well-crafted characters—complex and authentic: like Leopold Bloom, Huckleberry Finn, Anna Karenina, Hamlet, Miss Havisham, Hannibal Lecter, Hester Prynne, and others. Whether you love them or hate them, these characters are unforgettable and infuse their stories with life beyond the page. Those are the kinds of enduring characters we'd like to have populate the artfully crafted stories in Conclave.

What makes a good character?

CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION ABOUT
THE 2009 CONCLAVE CHARACTER PRIZE
GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• All submissions must be online submissions. We do not accept submissions by post or email.
• Submissions should be previously unpublished in North America. We do not accept previously published work, this includes work published online.
• Cover letters are welcome but not required.
• Conclave does not usually consider simultaneous submissions.
• You can now check the status of your submission on our online submission manager. We are unable to offer comments or suggestions on manuscripts.
• If a submission is known to be included in a book already accepted by a publisher, please notify us of this fact (and of the anticipated date of book publication) in a cover letter/email.
• International submissions are encouraged, but all submissions must be in English.
• We cannot return submissions--we delete them! So we encourage you to save a copy of whatever you are submitting to us.

PAYMENT:
At this time we can offer one contributor's copy per author for accepted work. We hope that will change in the future. We reserve the right to put your piece on our web site d/or publish it electronically if it has appeared in our journal. If we accept your work, we understand you grant us first North American serial rights (and Conclave anthology rights). All subsequent rights are yours, though we expect any future publication to carry acknowledgment that the work first appeared in Conclave.

FICTION & FLASH FICTION SUBMISSIONS

• Fiction should be up to 6,500 words, double spaced with numbered pages and one-inch margins.
• For short fiction, please submit only one short story at a time.
• Excerpts from unpublished novels will be considered, but they must be able to stand alone.
• Please include name and contact information at the beginning of the work.
• For flash fiction submissions: Please send three to five short-shorts, each less than 1000 words.
• Understand the flash form: flashes should still contain classic story elements: protagonist, conflict, and resolution. However the limited word length dictates that some elements will remain unwritten or implied in the written story. The most famous example is Ernest Hemingway's six-word flash, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
• A few tips for flash fiction submissions

CREATIVE NONFICTION & PERSONAL ESSAY SUBMISSIONS

• All submissions should be double-spaced and also up to 6,500 words.
• Personal essays should be 750-1200 words
• Excerpts from unpublished book-length nonfiction manuscripts will be considered, but they must be able to stand alone.
• There is no restriction on topic, but the creative nonfiction must focus around a person or group or people (refer to the works or Gay Talese, Annie Dillard, Joyce Carol Oats, or Truman Capote).

POETRY & PROSE POEM SUBMISSIONS

• Poetry should be single-spaced and include three to five poems per submission, up to ten manuscript pages at a time.

• The poet's name and contact information must appear at the top of every poem.

• We certainly welcome the informal narratives that currently seem to dominate North American poetry, however we are also interested in formal poetry that is character-driven.
• We will also consider English translations of poetry, if a brief biography of the poet is included.

• For prose poems, please send three to five prose poems, each less than 1000 words.
• Understand the prose poem form: the prose poem appears as prose, but reads like poetry. In the first issue of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, editor Peter Johnson explained, "Just as black humor straddles the fine line between comedy and tragedy, so the prose poem plants one foot in prose, the other in poetry, both heels resting precariously on banana peels."

PLAY/SCREENPLAY SUBMISSIONS

• Short one act plays, short scripts or dramatic monologues up to 12 minutes performing time -- no longer than 3,500 words.
• Please submit only one longer dramatic excerpt or three monologues at a time.

PHOTOGRAPHY SUBMISSIONS
What are we looking for in a photograph?

• Submissions should include approximately 3 to 5 high-quality JPEGs of 300 dpi, 5" x 7".
• Because the interior of the magazine is printed in black and white, only black and white submissions may be included.
• Outstanding color submissions as well as black and white submissions will be considered for the front cover.
• Submissions to be considered only for the cover should be marked "Cover Only" in the comments section.

* * *NEW PHOTOGRAPHY SUBMISSION CATEGORY ADDED FOR 2009! * * *
For 2009, we will select one non-news picture story or photo essay on a single theme.

• The story is limited to 8-10 photographs, and must be in black and white with a character-focus.
• We will accept submissions through our online submissions manager, as well as through our flickr site.
• More information will be posted closer to the opening of our submission period.

***TEXT AND IMAGE***
In our 2009 Issue, we will also welcome work from writers and photographers working with both image and text to tell a character-focused story.
More information will be posted closer to the opening of our submission period

Reprinted from http://www.conclavejournal.com/submissions/submissions.html.