Guidelines for Submissions: 

We are a tri-monthly E-Zine and will be accepting submissions only during reading periods. The reading periods are as follows:

• Sept 1 – Nov. 21
• Dec 1 – Feb. 21
• March 1 — May 21
• June 1 – August 21

Deadlines for reading periods are: Nov. 1, Feb. 1, May 1, and Aug. 1.

• Submissions must be attached to an email with brief bio. included in the body of the email. One submission at a time.
• The subject header of your email should read SUBMISSION- [genre]-[your last name]. If you use any other subject header you risk your submission being lost.
• 5 in. spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman with 1 in. margins.
• All submissions should have a header that states your name, email address, and word count.
• Include a brief bio (in 3rd person), and note if this will be your first publication.
• Simultaneous submissions are fine but please notify us immediately if the piece is accepted elsewhere.
• We do not consider translations.
• We anticipate a six to eight week response time. If you have not heard from us after three months, please send an email and include STATUS as the subject of the email.

FICTION:

• We prefer literary fiction 2,000 – 6,000 wds. (We are not opposed to genre fiction as long as it encompasses elements of literary fiction.)

NON-FICTION:

• Open to memoir, literary non-fiction, and the like. 2,000 – 4,000 wds.

FLASH FICTION:

• Make it bizarre. 500 – 800 wds.

PROSE:

• Limit submissions to 3 – 5 prose pieces.
• Bizarre, weird, abstract, and short prose are accepted.
• Prose at 500 wds.
• No more than 2 pages per piece.

What we are NOT looking for and will NOT publish:——-Sex scenes. Shooting, hacking, and too much blood and gore. Vampires. Violence towards women, children, or animals. Anything that denigrates a specific race, gender, or disability. Anything focused on perversions.

ART:

anything goes– keep it at 600×600 web or less.

First serial rights.