SFW's FEATURED FICTION
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PARADISE LOST SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Guidelines
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Updated:
Feb 14, 2009 |
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Please note we have a new e-mail address for submissions.
- What we want: We are looking for speculative poetry, in all styles, mixes, and viewpoints. We want 20 or
more poems for a special collection that reaches beyond the ordinary.
- What we don't want: Poetry
with excessive profanity, child abuse,
bestiality, incest, or hate poetry. We pander to an
adult audience so please no poems aimed at children.
- Tip: Send us only your best because we will be submitting
to a few of the year's best anthologies.
- Theme: Paradise Lost. The theme is open to interpretation. Length: No limits.
- Deadline:
Until filled.
- Payment: $2,
paid on publication.
You will also receive a free three month subscription to our
market database for speculative fiction writers ($3.97 value). Authors that have at
least one published novel, novella, anthology, collection
will also receive a free one year listing in our
Book and Magazine
Directory ($7.97 value).
- How we pay: All writers that
submit to us must have an active PayPal account for payment.
- Rights: All rights
revert back to the Author after one year or more depending on the contract. We purchase exlusive
P.O.D and world-wide
electronic rights (CD, disk, audio, email, online,
etc). We also retain the right to archive
your poem/story up to five years and reprint your poem/story
for a possible "Best of the
Year Anthology."
- Note: We publish in electronic
format (PDF/html) first. If sales are good we will pulish a print version (P.O.D).
- How to submit:
We accept electronic
submissions only. Send
submissions to
. Make sure to put "PARADISE LOST and
Title of your poem" in the subject line. We use the same
e-mail address for all submissions and without the proper subject line we won't know where your story fits in our publications.
- Note: Your browser also needs to have Javascript
enabled to see the above e-mail address. We do this to hide our
e-mail address from unwanted SPAM and e-mail harvesters
- Format:
No need for a cover letter;
but make sure to include a
short bio (written in
third-person) embedded in
the body of the e-mail. Please
include previous publishing credits.
- Submission Format:
RTF (.rtf) or MS WORD (.doc) file
sent as an attachment.
Underline all italicized
text. Please include all
contact information with
your manuscript. Use Times
New Roman 12pt font and
single space all paragraphs and
double space all section breaks along with marking them with three asterisks ***.
- Multiple Submissions: You can submit up to 5 poems -- though only one will be used for the collection..
- Simultaneous Submissions: It's okay with us as long as you let
us know that you've also submitted it elsewhere. And if your poem is accepted by another
publication please inform us immediately.
- Reprints: We do not accept reprints at this time.
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Response time: 1-4 months. If you haven't heard
back from us within four months
feel free to query with
the date of your submission or assume it has been rejected.
Our responses will come in the form of a simple form letter via e-mail.
- Publication date: There are no set publication dates for our anthologies
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once an anthology is full we will publish it within twelve months.
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