LiteraryMary

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 [email protected]  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 February 28, 2010.  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.

Cool, I need to get a time machine.

whoops.  i'm glad i hadn't updated the duotrope page yet.

bump.  get em in. 

started looking through subs tonight.  looks like pretty stiff competition this year.  heh.  i said stiff.

I think you should reject anyone with the letter 'z' in their name. Then anyone who say's 'I look forward to hearing from you' , and finally anyone who uses the word 'destiny' in any of their submissions.

That should help. Then just fill the book with poems by me. Which of course you'll receive two weeks after the deadline :)

Please note, due to life circumstances and changes, we have decided to extend the deadline for submissions to the second LiteraryMary print journal until February 31.

Thanks,
Jenifer

That's good, because I forgot to submit.

One small thing, you may want to check how many days hath February...

laughing out loud.  good idea.

that's so me.

awesome.

i'll give it a go. it's been a while since i sent anything out. i warn you though--it may very well be one of the pieces i've posted here.

looking forward to it.

oh my, i better hurry..

So, it's been a few months. . .  any update on this?

Wait until spring, bandini.

First comes the man project.  Which is almost complete.

Actually, first comes these two papers for school I should be writing as I type this.

Then comes the man project, which is almost ready for release.

Then we finish reading for the journal and send rejections and acceptances.

Hmm, someone should have reminded me as to the man project.

The man project. That's what I'll name my bedroom one day.

I am about to send you links to poetry which will define a more chronic range of my talents... and if that magazine is adult-oriented I may send you some other shit. There's an 80 MB film on my mediafire account for your enjoyment.

Okay, I'll bite: what's the "man project"?

http://jeniferwills.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/male-pale-and-old/ (http://jeniferwills.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/male-pale-and-old/)

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