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Submissions Information & Criteria

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Seeking Short Fiction, Poetry, Illustration, and Non-Fiction

across the genres of:

Adventure, Detection & Mystery, Fantasy,

Horror & the Supernatural, and Scienc Fiction​​

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​​ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE MADE THROUGH OUR SUBMITTABLE.COM SITE

 BASIC FORMATTING for BOTH FICTION AND NON-FICTION PROSE:

  • The top left of page 1 of your digitally submitted document (.docx, .doc, .rtf, or .odt file) should contain—at the top left—YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION, inclusive of name, address, email, and any other contact information you wish to provide.

  • The WORD COUNT for your document (excluding title, by-line, and any epigraph) should be given at the top right corner of page one.

  • The document should be set in Times Roman or Times New Roman, 12-point.

  • 1" MARGINS ALL AROUND.

  • Except for your contact information on the top left of page one, which may be single spaced, ALL OF THE TEXT SHOULD BE DOUBLE SPACED.

  • DO NOT TAB INDENT PARAGRAPHS. DO NOT use your space bar for pargraph indents. Use the Ruler Bar of your word processor to set a small margin (at least one pica, at most one quarter of an inch).

  • ShowTITLES of long works (novels, novellas, full-length films, symphonies, works that contain shorter works within, etc.) IN ITALICS; show titles of short works (short stories, poems, essays, chapters, etc.) "IN QUOTES."

  • Show breaks in the piece of prose (if any) by THREE CENTERED ASTERISKS ( * * * ) [star space star space star].

  • Minimum and Maximum WORD COUNTS for prose fiction and non-fiction prose will be announced in each Call for Submissions.

 

 

BASIC FORMATTING for POETRY SUBMISSIONS:

  • SINGLE-SPACE POETRY with any indents clearly set in the submitted document.

  • Submissions of "PROSE POEMS" will be considered poetry, BUT will be transformed to poetic line count by the formula: Total # of Syllables/10, thus approximating iambic pentameter line lengths.

  • Both formal, traditional, metered and/or rhymed verse AND free verse are welcome for submission.
     

ALL ILLUSTRATIONS, ART, or PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK must be submitted in 300 dpi resolution (whether color or black and white).

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IMPORTANT NOTE: At the end of the scroll of any text document submitted INCLUDE A BIOGRAPHICAL "BLURB" and/or credits (publications, awards, contests, etc). This must be completed for consideration of your work. Works submitted lacking this submitter's information or not following these Guidelines will be rejected.

 

In the case of SUBMITTED ILLUSTRATIONS: Submitters should send biographical blurbs in an email to: fcoffman@comcast.net

NOTE: There is also a place on the Submission Form to include this info (copy/paste?)

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MAXIMUM NUMBER OF ACCEPTANCES and PAY RATES for The Phantomicon

(NOTE: ONLY ONE (1) Submission PER CATEGORY may be submitted by any single submitter. This DOES NOT MEAN that a single submitter cannot submit one  submission in two or more different categories—for examples: a short story and a poem, OR a work of non-fiction and an illustration.

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  • Submissions of Short Fiction will be cut off prior to the Call Ending Date of  31 August upon the submission of the  50th Short Story submission across the various genres of Adventure, Detection & Mystery, Fantasy, Horror & the Supernatural, and Science Fiction. Submissions of Short Fiction after that cut-off will receive an immediate notice that Short Fiction submissions are closed.

  • Submissions of Poetry will be cut off prior to the Call Ending Date of  31 August the receipt of the 35th Poetry submission. Submissions of Poetry after that cut-off will receive an immediate notice that Poetry submissions are closed.

  • Submissions of Non-Fiction will be cut off prior to the Call Ending Date of 31 August upon the receipt of the 10th Non-Fiction submission. Submissions of Non-Fiction after that cut-off will receive an immediate notice that Poetry submissions are closed.

  • Submissions of Illustrations will be cut off prior to the Call Ending Date of  31 August upon the receipt of the 15th Illustration  submission. Submissions of Illustrations after that cut-off will receive an immediate notice that Illustration submissions are closed.

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NOTE:
While we are primarily seeking NEW, NOT PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED work, we will consider previously published works IF and ONLY IF all rights have reverted to the creator of the work. If such a work is accepted for inclusion in this issue, ALL APPROPRIATE CITATION INFORMATION must be included as part of the text of the submission.

 

PAY RATES:

  • 1/2 cent per word for accepted FICTION and NON-FICTION, but with a MINIMUM of  $15.00 and a MAXIMUM of $30.00. Word Counts for Fiction should be from 1500 to 6000 words. Word Counts for Non-Fiction should be from 1500 to 6000 words.

  • $10.00 for accepted Poems of fewer than 14 lines; $15.00 for accepted poems of 14-50 lines; $20.00 for poems of more than 50 lines, with a MAXIMUM length of 100 lines.

  • $15.00 for accepted Half-Page Illustrations; $25.00 for accepted Full-Page Illustrations; or for a full page of Cartoon Cells.​ PAGE DIMENSIONS—6" wide by 9" 

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​NOTE: Call for Submission Dates for JOURN-E  will consistently be the month of February for the Vernal Equinox number each year and the month of August for the Autumnal Equinox number each year.

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ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE MADE THROUGH OUR

SUBMITTABLE .COM

Click on the LINK BELOW to Submit

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