Guidelines
Please follow the below guidelines when submitting work for consideration.
When submitting work for consideration, please follow the below guidelines.
Poetry:
- please send only 1 poem at a time. Any genre. Any format. Experimental welcome.
Flash Fiction:
- 1,500 to 2,000 words
Fiction:
- up to 10,000 words
Novel Chapters:
- Not accepted. Do not send chapters or sections from novels.
Graphic Novels:
- Not accepted. Do not send chapters or sections from graphic novels.
Response Times:
- 30 days
Publication Format Writing
- paperback, 6x9, 120 - 180 pages.
- Kindle format: yes
- please note: writing will not be published online. All fiction, we feel, is best read either as a paperback or with an electronic reader.
- all material received is considered to be adapted as lyrics to a song. If your fiction is adapted as a song, it will be added to the production & release queue. See below for payment & credits for more information.
Publication Frequency
- Bi-Monthly: for work adapted as lyrics to a song
- Annually: for poetry & fiction
Award Nomination
- We do nominate fiction for Pushcart and Best American Short Fiction
- Lyrics--whether collaborated or received via submission--we nominate for Best American Songwriters / Lyrics
Payment:
- no payment for publication of fiction
- for works adapted as lyrics to a song, writer receives the following: 50% fractional ownership of all royalties associated with said song's streaming, online purchases of merch associated with song, etc.
- Online royalty tracking is updated online monthly.
- Official Royalty reports are submitted annually.
- Authors receive a byline credit on website and in text upon publication
- For works adapted as lyrics, writer receives a “featuring name, username, or pseudonym” byline credit upon song's online release.
Rights Retained
- Non-exclusive, global publication rights
- Marketing rights: online & offline rights of all submissions received
- NOTE: writer retains 100% ownership and rights for his / her material
AI Generations
- AI generated writing is not allowed. AI generated writing is not eligible for copyright protection. As such, all writers submitting work for consideration expressly agree that their work is 100% their own work.
Submission Fee: none
Submissions
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