Submission Guidelines

What We Want: "School Me" Fall, 2010

Dedicated to UN Millennium Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education.
• Teach us something. We’re looking for words and images exploring all facets of education. What’s the most important thing you ever learned? Who taught you? What have you tried to teach? Why? What did you first learn? What lessons stayed with you? What didn’t look like a typical education but taught you more than any class?
• We are always looking for crackheads. That is to say, we seek creators of words and art capable of inducing a metaphorical skull fissure within our readers, allowing new light to reach dark recesses. The heart, of course, must be as involved as the brain.
• We welcome work that reflects an engaged consciousness alive in the world.
• We have a limited budget to lighten the hunger inherent in the phrase "starving artist." If your work is accepted for publication, expect payment between $10 - $50.
• We love work in any language. Please include author-approved English translation. All text will appear in English, original language, and any other author-provided translations.
• Sorry, previously published work, including publication in an online venue which provides edited image or word content, is not accepted.
• Simultaneous submissions are encouraged. Please notify us upon acceptance elsewhere. Submitting across the artistic spectrum is welcome.
• We acquire First Serial Rights to publish on our website, to print, and the right to keep credited work in our archives.

What's Next?

Winter 2010: Girls Will Be Women

Dedicated to UN Millennium Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

What is gender? What is equality? What does it mean to “empower women?” The word “empower” bears within its meaning an inherent giver. Who permits woman to have or to lose power? Does equality mean the same?

Guidelines for Creative Nonfiction

• We accept personal narratives, immersion journalism, satires, reflections, meditations, and textual & cultural analyses.
• Most published pieces range from 1,000 to 5,000 words.
• We welcome work in any language. Please include author-approved English translation. All text will appear in English, original language, and any other author-provided translations.
• Acceptable submission formats are .doc, .rtf., .pdf., and .docx
• Each submission is reviewed by several editorial board members before a publication decision is made.
• We have a policy of blind selection. Please do not include your name anywhere in the body of your submission.
• Do include a brief note in an e-mail introducing yourself and your submission.

Guidelines for Poetry

• We accept all genres of poetry.
• Please send up to 5 poems, no more than 10 pages.
• We welcome work in any language. Please include author-approved English translation. All text will appear in English, original language, and any other author-provided translations.
• Please send poetry as an attachment. Acceptable submission formats are .doc, .rtf., .pdf., and .docx

Guidelines for Visual Media

• We accept photography, paintings, drawings, and computer art. Photography may not be computer-manipulated in any way.
• Cover art will be printed in full color and should be of dimensions 6x9 inches. It will include the name of the journal and the issue number (see examples).
• Artwork published within the journal will be printed in b&w, though we make make a limited run of color interiors. The images will also be displayed on our online version, where they will be full color.
• There are no restrictions or thematic guidelines for subject matter.
• Submissions can be png, jpg, jpeg, or gif file type, and don't need to be full resolution. Something like 800x600 pixels is fine, and must be smaller than 2mb in size.
• Please send no more than 15 images.