| Submission Guidelines We are currently taking submissions for our literary magazine, The Battered Suitcase. The Battered Suitcase We accept English-language submissions for publication in our magazine, which is published monthly. We read submissions year-round. Vagabondage is an electronic publisher and only accepts submissions by email. Please do not send us hard copy submissions. What We're Looking For: We welcome all genres: literary, experimental, mainstream, speculative, paranormal, poetry, narrative non-fiction, and humor. We don't wish to hang labels on good writing. If your story is an erotic romance written in a literary style in a future alternative universe, by all means, we want to see it. Visual poetry, a collage of words and images - please send it. We hope to provide a safe space for writers who've gone underappreciated because the industry has led them to believe that they don't fit some arbitrary format. We hold no editorial bias in regards to stories for or about individuals of any race, creed, gender or sexual orientation. |
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| By submitting your work, you agree that it is your original work, you hold the copyright, that it does not infringe on existing copyright material, is not libelous and has not be previously published in any form. Publication in electronic form to personal blogs or journals may be acceptable, however, please let us know when you send us your work. Fiction: Please submit manuscripts of any genre up to 8,000 words for consideration. Please provide a pitch of two or three sentences for works of more than 3,000 words. For manuscripts longer than 8,000 words, please send a query and brief synopsis for consideration. Poetry: Any form, although we prefer looser, more contemporary poetry. Haiku is a particular favorite with the executive editor. Visual poetry incorporating words and images is also welcome. Non-Fiction: Narrative non-fiction, commentary, slice of life, memoirs, revolutionary manifestos and particularly humor pieces are always most welcome. Artwork: The Battered Suitcase is interested in receiving visual art submissions for inclusion. Please submit your work in .jpg format. You may also send us a link to your online galleries. If you would like to submit photos of your three dimensional pieces, please do so. All artwork featuring individuals should have an associated signed release, even if it's your Aunt Tessie. If your artwork is accepted, we will need you to send us a clean .jpg with the title of the work in the file name to work with, trimmed of all excess white-space and no more than 850 pixels wide for publication. How We'd Like To See It: Please check your work for obvious spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors, or have it proofred by a literate friend or associate. Intentional misspelling and colloquialisms are a given and we like to think we're clever enough to deal with them. And to be perfectly honest, we don't care if you put one or two spaces between sentences. Please submit all work via email to submissions@vagabondagepress.com. To expedite review, please take a look at the staff bio page and direct your submission in the body of the email to the editor that you think might be the best fit. Put the type of submission and title of the work in your subject line. For example: "Submission, Short Fiction, Brody's Lost Dog" "Submission, Art, Girl with Hatstand" "Query, Novella, All Is Not Well" Please include your name, psuedonym (if used), the title of your work and a brief bio and/or link to your other work and your email address in both your email and your document. Submit written work as an attachment in Word (*.doc) format. Please do not forward in .rtf or Wordperfect. You can also provide a link for download into Word format. Submit artwork in .jpg format or provide a link for download. If providing a link to your online gallery, please attach at least one sample of your work. Please include a brief statement about yourself and the work you're submitting.. We welcome simultaneous submissions, but please notify us if your work is accepted and will be published elsewhere immediately. Please notify us by email with the title of your work in the subject line. The Battered Suitcase responds to submissions in as timely a manner as possible. If you haven't heard back from us within 45 days, please email us to query with the title of your work in the subject line. What We Don't Want: We cannot publish fan-fiction, fan-art or translations of foreign language works by other authors. Feel free to translate your own, original foreign language work for submission if it has not been published before in English. The Battered Suitcase accepts erotica - but cannot publish hardcore or pornography. You can send it and we'll probably read it, and we'll forward it to each other with the all the really good bits underlined, but we may not be able to publish it. Erotic elements as part of character development or plot are perfectly fine - you'll find us exceedingly open-minded, so don't be afraid to submit your work. Fine writing is always appreciated and we may be able to incorporate it under our future erotic imprints or anthologies. What's In It For You: We don't sell advertising, so sadly, we cannot pay for publication in The Battered Suitcase. We do provide a weblink to sites where your work is being sold and promoted, and our site is regularly indexed by major search engines. Vagabondage Press will be soon expanding into eBook and print publications. Authors who have been selected for inclusion into The Battered Suitcase will be given first consideration for book publication. After all, if we liked your work enough for the magazine, it's very likely we'll want to see more of it. Once established, our book lines will offer publication with generous royalties paid to the author. Rights Upon acceptance, The Battered Suitcase assumes first online publication rights and the right to include your work in the future online archives of the magazine. We assume no print rights. We ask for exclusive online rights for 30 days from publication, after which you are welcome to publish your work elsewhere online. For reprints in future online formats, we ask for a link back to our site with a reprint statement. Please let us know if your work has been already been seen in a personal online page, blog or journal. We understand that writers, especially new writers, often post their work for feedback. We encourage this practice, but we need to be made aware of the location. |
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