1/26/09 Calls for submissions
SALiT stands for Savannah Art & Literature. SALiT is actually pronounced SALT. As in, “A good coarse grade of salt is the best abrasive for cleaning any left-over grime from cast-iron pans. Never use soap!” Do you get it? The ‘i’ is silent.
The intention is to provide an open format for Art and Literature. This includes poetry, short stories, photography and images of paintings, sculpture, works on paper, etc.
SALiT Magazine is published quarterly and is open to all styles and formats of writing, regardless of subject matter. Please try and keep all poems to a three page maximum in length, and submit no more than five poems at one time. Short Stories should hang at approximately 1,500 to 3,000 words. If you are submitting an excerpt from a novel please make sure the story still reads as a whole.
All forms of artwork; painting, works on paper, objects, sculpture, photography, installation views, etc. are eagerly accepted. Submit no more than three images at one time.
When submitting writing, attach a word file to your e-mail. If you have special formatting needs, make sure the parameters are clearly stated in the e-mail. If you are submitting art images, attach the image files (jpg format, low-resolution thumbnails) to your e-mail. If your images are chosen for an issue you will be contacted and asked to send higher resolution images. No simultaneous submissions please. By accepting attachment files the magazine is putting its own hardware at risk, so please don’t play the virus game and screw the magazine over.
Send your work to salitmagazine@heathritch.com. Please write ‘poetry submission’ -or- ’short story submission’ -or- ‘artwork submission’ in the subject line of you e-mails. SALiT magazine will respond as soon as possible to all submissions, so be patient.
Take note of the Submission Deadlines.
If your work is accepted, you will be contacted by way of e-mail. By agreeing to publication you are granting SALiT Magazine first-publication rights. Once your work has been published, all rights revert back to you. After the printed issue containing your work expires, an electronic version will still be posted online until you or the magazine indicates otherwise.
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Make/shift: Feminisms In Motion is a magazine creating, documenting, and engaging with contemporary feminist culture and activism.
Currently need; investigative journalism – photojournalism – critical essays – personal essays – profiles of feminists activists, artists, projects, and thinkers – fiction and poetry – art and photography – book, maga/zine, film, art, and event reviews – hybrid pieces and content for the following regular make/shift features;
Everyday Actions: scenes of feminist action in everyday life (200 to 400 words)
Documents: documents of feminist discourse in progress (doodle-covered meeting minutes, e-mail exchanges, and the like)
Make/Plans: listings for our international calendar of upcoming events (submit info for events occurring between March and September 2009)
Participate: opportunities for people to get active in art, activist, and community projects
Make/shift pays $.02/word plus two copies.
Send pitches or full-draft submissions to info@makeshiftmag.com. Submit no more than three poems or two pieces of prose at a time. Feel free to pitch multiple ideas at once. Accepts pitches and submissions on a rolling basis.
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STANDARDS is an annual online electronic journal that welcomes the submission of unsolicited manuscripts and images from authors and artists around the world. Original, unpublished fiction; prose; poetry; drama/performance art; photography/visual art; essays; educational syllabi or lesson plans; and all points in between, may be submitted by email, throughout the year. They occasionally consider reprints with original publication information.
Texts authored in languages other than English and Spanish are accepted, with accompanying translation to English. In opposition to the negative effects of current “English Only” laws on the burgeoning Latino/Spanish speaking populations of the United States, they continue to publish “Spanish only” texts in our journal.
Send submissions to standards.journal@gmail.com with “Submission” as the subject line.
Do not send attachments. Paste submissions within the body of your email. If accepted, special characters and formatting may be sent in an attached document. Previously published works are not accepted, unless solicited. Submissions of text should be fewer than 15 type-written pages. Longer works may be considered for serialization. Submissions of graphics, photography, painting, and other visual arts may be sent as links to personal web sites. If that is not an option, please email standards.journal@gmail.com for more information. Include the title of the work(s); author/artist name; email address; and a short contributor’s note with each submission. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable with notification immediately in writing to negotiate copyright information. Except in the case of books sent for review, they discourage sending hard-copy materials. Allow 6-8 weeks for response.
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feministing.com calls for submissions for anthology on rape culture, Yes Means Yes! to be published by Seal Press in Fall 2008.
Imagine a world where women enjoy sex on their own terms and aren’t shamed for it. Imagine a world where men treat their sexual partners as collaborators, not conquests. Imagine a world where rape is rare and swiftly punished.
Yes Means Yes! will fly in the face of the conventional feminist wisdom that rape has nothing to do with sex. We are looking to collect sharp and insightful essays, from voices both established and new that demonstrate how empowering female sexual pleasure is the key to dismantling rape culture.
Potential essay subjects could include;
* Revamping how public sex education is taught, and to whom.
* The new backlash against rape survivors (i.e., media obsession with drinking, Girls Gone Wild culture being to blame for assault)
* Bringing men back into the conversation, making men leaders in the movement to end rape culture
* Thoughts on “enthusiastic consent”
* Taking Back the Porn: How changing the pornography industry can stop rape
* The power of language (naming rape for what it is, or the new myth of “gray rape”)
* A primer for men on sexual assault
* How good sex (where women’s pleasure is central) can mean an end to rape culture, and how a society that values genuine female sexual pleasure will make it easier to identify and prosecute rapists.
* Rethinking sexual interaction as a private joint performance, as opposed to as an exchange of a commodity or service
* An analysis of the economics of female sexual alienation/oppression, and an economic model for resistance
* Holding the MSM accountable for torture porn, kidnapping crusades and faux feminism.
* Desegmenting the Market: overcoming commercially enforced sexual stereotypes to organize across race, class, gender, and difference
* On pulling out the invisible lynchpin of rape culture: homophobia
* Creating accurate media representations of rape
Women and men, published and unpublished authors, are all encouraged to submit essays. Be creative, be forward-thinking, be funny! Perhaps most importantly, we are seeking essays with a pro-active bent that offer new and insightful thoughts and actions on how to dismantle rape culture. No more “No Means No,” let’s think “Yes Means Yes!”
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submit essays to yesmeansyes2008@gmail.com no later than March 1, 2008. Essays should be from 2000 to 5000 words, double spaced and paginated. Include address, phone number, email address and a short bio.
ABOUT THE EDITORS:
Jaclyn Friedman is a writer, performer and activist. In her work as the Program Director for the Center for New Words she programs and produces a 50 plus event-per-year series of author discussions, as well as writing workshops, open mics, political discussions, music concerts, book groups and special events. She is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of WAM!, CNW’s conference on Women, Action & the Media. Friedman’s work has been published in many outlets including Bitch, AlterNet, Women’s eNews, PW.org. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and has received a 2001 Cambridge Poetry Award, a 2004 Somerville Arts Council Artist Grant, and a recent fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center.
Jessica Valenti, 29, is the founder and Executive Editor of Feministing.com and the author of Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminist Matters. Jessica has a Masters degree in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University and has worked with national and international women’s organizations, including Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America and the Women’s Environment and Development Organization. She is also a co-founder of the REAL hot 100, a campaign that aims to change the perception of younger women in the media, and a contributing author to We Don’t Need Another Wave and Single State of the Union.
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DLSIJ Press is committed to being a women’s press in the truest sense: We publish all women, regardless of political leanings, belief system, genre, sexual orientation, etc.
Established in 1998, DLSIJ Press publishes ebooks with an optional contract for paperbacks.
They seek book-length works, both fiction and non-fiction, (35,000+ for prose) by women authors. They do not publish children’s literature or books with hate, pornography, or the “objectification” of women.
Due to the volume of submissions they ask that authors query first, rather than send their entire work.
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Boxcar Poetry Review is an online poetry journal showcasing the work of new and established poets with new issues appearing every other month.
The best poems of the year will be collected together in a print anthology which we try to get out sometime during the following year.
In addition to publishing outstanding poetry, we seek to raise the profile of the next generation of poets by featuring reviews of first books and interviews with first book poets.
If you’re on Facebook, you can join our group here. We are also on GoodReads and can be found by searching for our email address (boxcarpoetry@gmail.com) there.
Boxcar Poetry Review seeks top quality poetry, artwork, photography, interviews, and reviews.
For poetry: Email 3-5 poems as a Word or RTF file to boxcarpoetry@gmail.com with “POETRY-SUB: your name” in the subject line of the email. Include a brief bio in the text of your email. Simultaneous submissions allowed with immediate notification. Please wait for a response before sending a second submission. Does not consider previously published material.
For reviews: Email reviews as Word or RTF files to boxcarpoetry@gmail.com with “REVIEW-SUB: your name” in the subject line of the email. Reviews should engage the text (ie. close reading) and may either be academic or personal in their nature. Reviews from 800-1500 words are preferred. Include a brief bio in the text of your email. Only takes reviews of first books of poetry (no chapbooks). If you would like to submit your book for review please query for instructions.
If you’re interested in sending a review copy of your first book, contact Sara Toruno, the Review Editor, to make arrangements.
Review Editor
Boxcar Poetry Review
429 Bush St. #45
San Francisco, CA 94108
For art & photography: Most of the images used tend to be solicited. If interested, send three to six images in JPG format for review to boxcarpoetry@gmail.com with “IMAGE-SUB: your name” in the subject line of the email. Include a brief bio in the text of your email. If accepted, they may request a larger and/or uncompressed version.
For interviews: The most interesting interviews are conversations between poets who already have some familiarity with each other. As with the reviews, the focus is on poets who have recently published their first book. If you have an interview you’d like to do, please send your proposal to boxcarpoetry@gmail.com and indicate “INTERVIEW” in the header.
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