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ESSAY GUIDELINES: Include a cover letter with your submission. Simultaneously submitted works are permitted. Each essay should be no longer than 7500 words. Please submit one essay per submission. Essays should be individually typed double-spaced on one side of the page. Please make sure your name appears on all of the pages of your manuscript. All works must be previously unpublished (in all formats). We only accept electronic submissions for this genre.
FICTION GUIDELINES: Include a cover letter with your submission. Simultaneously submitted works are permitted. Each story should be no longer than 7500 words. We don't consider unsolicited novel excerpts. Please submit one story per submission. Stories should be individually typed double-spaced on one side of the page. Please make sure your name appears on all of the pages of your manuscript. All works must be previously unpublished (in all formats). We only accept electronic submissions for this genre.
POETRY GUIDELINES: Include a cover letter with your submission. Simultaneously submitted works are permitted. Each poem should be no longer than fifty lines. Please send no more than 3 poems per submission. Poems should be individually typed either single- or double-spaced on one side of the page. Please make sure your name appears on all of the pages of your manuscript. . All works must be previously unpublished (in all formats). We only accept electronic submissions for this genre.
Length: Up to 500 words maximum.
Limit: Submit one flash piece per submission.
Please identify your piece as fiction or nonfiction.
Previously published work (in any format) will not be considered for publication. Only electronic submissions will be considered.
For prose translations, submit one piece of no more than 7500 words.
For poetry translations, submit no more than 3 poems per submission up to 50 lines each.