It ain't brain surgery, just a few simple guidelines.
Note: There are no hard-fast deadlines, just a last call every now and again. This is an occasional journal that aims to highlight a maximum of 8-10 writers each issue. I don't know about you, but my attention span wanes a bit after that much reading. In other words, the quirky editor might post a new issue every month, or three, or when a jolt of energy hits her and she has a folder full of enough good stuff to spring on the world without taxing its patience.
FEAR NOT, THE APPROXIMATE DEADLINE FOR THE DEC/JAN ISSUE IS OCTOBER 31st
1. URBAN: Include the name of the city, whether real or entirely fabricated by you, somewhere in the work if possible. For example: "Nobody made eye contact on the streets of Boston, just walked like cyborgs, staring...."
And please don't tax the editor's credulity by calling an apple orchard poem "urban" unless the subway runs to
said urban orchard.
2. MULTICULTURAL: Add some dark alleyways, boring conferences, spangly belly dancers, bright lights, condos, commuting, criminals, culture, dancing, dumpsters, energy, flavor, funk, pot-holes, psychos, romance, smog, spice -- give us some zing! Multicultural, for umphatic purposes, means the highs and the lows of urban culture.
But think 'tude, not rude. Overtly sexual, super gorey, and bigoted language will not be published.
3. PHLASH: Tell a complete story in fewer than 1,000 words of fiction or fewer than 100 lines of prose poetry.
4. Write your full name at the beginning of the e-mail, add a title for the work, paste the submission into the body of the e-mail. Subject line should read either "Submission: Fiction" or "Submission: Poetry."
5. You must be over 18 (or the legal age in your state) to submit.
Submit to: umphsubmits@yahoo.com.
6. Previously published is fine, as long as you retain the rights and the work does not currently, and will not in the next six months, appear in another publication. After that, you retain full rights to your work.
Note: There are no hard-fast deadlines, just a last call every now and again. This is an occasional journal that aims to highlight a maximum of 8-10 writers each issue. I don't know about you, but my attention span wanes a bit after that much reading. In other words, the quirky editor might post a new issue every month, or three, or when a jolt of energy hits her and she has a folder full of enough good stuff to spring on the world without taxing its patience.
FEAR NOT, THE APPROXIMATE DEADLINE FOR THE DEC/JAN ISSUE IS OCTOBER 31st
1. URBAN: Include the name of the city, whether real or entirely fabricated by you, somewhere in the work if possible. For example: "Nobody made eye contact on the streets of Boston, just walked like cyborgs, staring...."
And please don't tax the editor's credulity by calling an apple orchard poem "urban" unless the subway runs to
said urban orchard.
2. MULTICULTURAL: Add some dark alleyways, boring conferences, spangly belly dancers, bright lights, condos, commuting, criminals, culture, dancing, dumpsters, energy, flavor, funk, pot-holes, psychos, romance, smog, spice -- give us some zing! Multicultural, for umphatic purposes, means the highs and the lows of urban culture.
But think 'tude, not rude. Overtly sexual, super gorey, and bigoted language will not be published.
3. PHLASH: Tell a complete story in fewer than 1,000 words of fiction or fewer than 100 lines of prose poetry.
4. Write your full name at the beginning of the e-mail, add a title for the work, paste the submission into the body of the e-mail. Subject line should read either "Submission: Fiction" or "Submission: Poetry."
5. You must be over 18 (or the legal age in your state) to submit.
Submit to: umphsubmits@yahoo.com.
6. Previously published is fine, as long as you retain the rights and the work does not currently, and will not in the next six months, appear in another publication. After that, you retain full rights to your work.