Category: Calls for Submissions
Posted on July 3, 2009 | No Comments »
The LiteraryMary, journal of the beautiful, unusual and eclectic, will be publishing our second print issue in Spring of 2010. We are now accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, and black and white photography. We are also open to experimental pieces that don’t necessarily fall into any of those categories. Rather than ask you to familiarize yourself with our style, you should keep in mind that although we have plenty of class, we have no style. We intend to publish a myriad of styles, our main concern being that what you submit is written well. We do not believe that good writing needs to be style specific, but it does need to be sincere, honest and absolutely free of grammatical errors, spelling errors and the kind of mistakes professionals just don’t make. Please no previously published work. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but let us know if your work gets accepted somewhere else as soon as possible. Finally, we ask that if your writing has been workshopped over the internet you take it offline when you submit to us. Submit to us. I like the sound of that.
It is important that you read this next part carefully, because if you do not submit in exactly the manner described below, we will reject your submission. If doing last year’s journal taught us anything, it is that there is a reason editors are so tight assed about submission guidelines.
If you are interested, please send up to six of your best pieces of poetry regardless of length and/or up to three pieces of fiction, for a total of no more than 4000 words, as separate attachments (using either .doc, docx, .rtf, or .wpd file extensions) to literary.mary.submissions@gmail.com. We will not accept submissions pasted into the body of an email or a single document. Do not zip your files. Experimental pieces and black and white photography should also be sent to this address. Please include your name and the best description you can come up with for what you’re submitting in the subject line, such as ‘poetry’ or ‘fiction’ etc. If you do not include a description in the subject line we will not read it. Don’t forget to include the email address at which you’d prefer to be contacted, a snail mail address, telephone number and a short bio in the body of the email.
Submissions will be chosen in a mostly anonymous process and we will notify you whether or not you’ve been accepted in as timely a manner as possible. The deadline for submissions will be December 31, 2009. Payment will be one contributor’s copy since our staff works on a volunteer basis and that’s all we can afford right now. Extra copies will be available for purchase on the LiteraryMary website, and hopefully at a bookstore near you. Regardless, we will eventually take over the world.
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