WHAT TO SUBMIT
(and other related information)
- The WriteGallery publishes literary fiction, poetry, essays and articles about
writing (including articles on writers or
writing programs/groups/projects), personal essays
(including self-contained memoir pieces), genre fiction
(sci-fi, horror, etc), and sometimes topical essays
(politics, social, etc).
As a general rule, as of August, 2005, all fiction,
poetry and personal essays will be restricted to the
theme-based chapbook literary updates, except for
where specifically noted otherwise.
The WriteGallery does not accept
individual manuscripts longer than 5000 words, prose or poems.
Submissions, per author, per each call for
submissions are limited to the following, unless
otherwise stated in a specific case:
- Three total prose pieces
(any mixture of categories)
- Six poems
- To submit any prose or poetry
over the limit, you must first
query.
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Theme-based Virtual Chapbooks
The basic literary updates are now
theme-based chapbooks. Each such
chapbook will hold the work of
"various authors," who have
submitted work which addresses the
theme.
Unless otherwise stipulated all the
following types of work are eligible:
- Literary fiction
- Poetry
- Personal essays/memoirs
- Essays/articles on writing
- Any other form of essay:
political, social, etc
- Genre fiction: sci-fi,
horror, fantasy, etc
Occasionally Added
Other Essays/Articles on Writing
Essays and articles on the art, process
and world of writing, which are independent
in theme and from inclusion in any
chapbook, are accepted for consideration
and publication at any time *(except for during
periods of stated hiatus). An author may
only submit up to three pieces of such
essays/articles within a six-month period.
Special Prose and Poetry Postings
WINTER HOLIDAY: Prose and poetry on subjects
appropriate for the Winter solstice/Christmas
season are accepted for consideration.
Work accepted is placed in a special index
from mid November through late December,
though the work stays in the general indices
and is available through such all year round.
The writing need not be about Christmas;
it just needs to be about things of love, or
spirituality, or good will -- any of the
things that say "Winter Holiday"
writing.
Please only submit such work when it is
being called for. *(see the right
column)
HALLOWEEN: Ghost stories, other horror
or genre fiction (as well as poetry) for
the Halloween season are also posted during
the Halloween season. Again, the work is
listed in a special index for the holiday,
but also stays in the general indices
and is available through such all year round.
Please only submit such work when it is
being called for. *(see the right
column)
CHAPBOOKS OF PROSE AND/OR POETRY BY A
SINGLE AUTHOR: If an author has an
interest in a chapbook of her or his
work being produced at the WriteGallery,
the author must query K.L.Storer directly,
first:
K.L.Storer@thewritegallery.com
AT THE PRESENT TIME, K.L. IS NOT ACCEPTING
QUERIES/ PROPOSALS/ SUBMISSIONS FOR INDIVIDUAL
AUTHOR CHAPBOOK COLLECTIONS.
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NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR THE CHAPBOOK:
THE MOTION IN MOTIVE
Work in progress
Until September 2008, prose, poetry and
artwork/illustrations will be posted as each is
accepted. The project will be locked at that time
and no more submissions will be accepted.
What's eligible?
Writing:
Any prose or poetry that reasonably addresses the
theme will be considered. However, prose pieces
with an overtly academic flavor are not likely to
make the cut. That does not mean written from a
frame-set of intellect, it means prose that look
like a masters or doctoral thesis, or someone's
school essay assignment stand no chance. Other
than that, anything is fair game so long as it
actually is written well enough.
Artwork/Illustrations:
Artists and photographers can also submit images
to be considered as the main artwork for the
chapbook or as an illustration for any particular
prose piece or poem. The main image will not be
chosen until August 2008. The illustrations
for each piece of writing will be picked when K.L.
sees the one that grabs him. He, too, will be
working on art or photographs to use.
To keep things clean, once an image has been
picked, that's it for the illustration for that
particular piece of writing -- no more submissions
of illustrations will be accepted for it. Each
posted prose or poetry piece will be eligible for
the illustration until it is clear it has an
image. Directly after the choice has been made
that fact will be clearly posted until the image
is up. As far as K.L.'s own artwork, at some point,
for each, he will decide he has given submissions
enough time to come in and will use his own.
Authors may submit their own illustrations so
long as the following conditions are met: 1) if
they are not the creator of the images they must
have verifiable proof of permission and rights to
use the image in conjunction with the chapbook;
2) they understand that acceptance of the writing
and of the image are not inclusive -- K.L. may not
choose to use the authors' art even if he accepts
their writing, and he may use his own or others'
images to illustrate the work.
There is no required slant to the images in terms
of color schemes or style. But, of course, you
who are submitting graphics, as with writing,
must be in control of copyright clearance to
grant the WriteGallery rights to post the work.
Limits and conditions
The limits of submissions per person are as they
always are for any individual project: three
prose pieces and six poems and a 5000 word limit
on any single piece of work. And yes, one can
submit a total of three prose pieces and a total
of six poems (nine separate pieces of writing).
Artists/photographers may only submit two images
for each of the main graphic for the collection
or two illustrations for any individual prose or
poetry work (that's 2 images per prose piece or
poem).
Specs for graphics:
- MAIN ILLUSTRATION
- must be free of text when submitted
- must be no smaller than 800 x 600 pixels
but no larger than 1152 x 768
- Images should be at least 300 DPI -- lower DPI may
result in rejection due to poor visual quality
- file type must be jpg or png
- file size can be no larger than 2 megabytes
- ILLUSTRATIONS FOR PIECES OF WRITING
- must be free of text when submitted
- must be no smaller than 400 pixels wide
but no larger than 800 pixels wide *and
the wider it is, the more the aspect ratio
should favor the width
- Images should be at least 300 DPI -- lower DPI may
result in rejection due to poor visual quality
- file type must be jpg or png
- file size can be no larger than 2 megabytes
All illustrations should be attached to email to:
writing@thewritegallery.com.
Illustrations can accompany the writing they illustrate or
can be separate -- please specify what each graphic is
illustrating.
Deadline
The call for submissions is open now and will
remain in effect until midnight, August 31, 2008.
ONE FINAL NOTE -- IF YOUR WRITING, PHOTOGRAPH OR
ART WORK BECOMES A PART OF THIS CHAPBOOK, IT
WILL STAY A PART OF THIS CHAPBOOK: This chapbook,
like all others here, is meant to be a single unit,
collected of parts that equal the whole. To that end
it is to be published/posted as such with all the
elements to be kept as a part of it. Thus, no work
will be removed from the chapbook unless it is
determined that the work is plagiarized or otherwise
infringes on copyright.
If the writing or graphic is accepted, you are
agreeing that such will stay posted with the
chapbook. If you request later for any work to be
removed, that request will be denied. The work stays
with the chapbook. If you are not comfortable with
this arrangement, don't submit work for the chapbook;
you will be held to this agreement if your work
becomes a part of this venture.
CALLS FOR GENERAL ESSAYS/ARTICLES ON WRITING
ARE ALSO OPEN -- *no more than three
submissions in a six-month period.
AT THE PRESENT TIME, K.L. IS NOT
ACCEPTING QUERIES/ PROPOSALS/ SUBMISSIONS FOR
INDIVIDUAL AUTHOR CHAPBOOK COLLECTIONS.
No other submissions will be read or responded to.
A submission sent under the guise of a query letter
will not be read or responded to.
Query letters are to be as described in the sections
below. They are to be real queries. Again, a submission
masquerading as a query will be ignored.
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NOTE: Unless otherwise stated, notice
of a decision to use or not use submissions
will be sent within ninety days of original
submission. If you, as an author with
submitted work, need to withdraw your
work from consideration, please inform
us as soon as possible that the work
is no longer available to us, so we
will not spend time considering what is
no longer available to accept.
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- At present, we do not pay for the work we
publish.
THE COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT
You are
agreeing to these terms whether or not you have
familiarized yourself with them.
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When you submit your work to us you are granting the
WriteGallery Creative Writing Web Site archival rights
to the work. This means this web site can keep the work
posted permanently. But, with the sole exception of granting us
the further right to one possible use of an accepted piece in the
WriteGallery newsletter, WG Reporter,
all other rights are retained by you.
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Also note that the WriteGallery will post, by default,
the copyright notice for your work as belonging to the
legal name you have provided, and with the copyright
year as that of the posting here, unless you specify
otherwise.
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For full detail on the copyright agreement, which you ought to familiarize yourself with, click here:
Copyright Agreement.
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