Current Issue News Next Issue Submit Links About Contact Archive     Submission Guidelines If you want to see your writing appear in Harbinger, use this as your bible and you can't go wrong. If you don't live by these guidelines, your work will NOT be accepted. You have been warned... On this page: General stipulations Style guidelines Word lengths & submission categories Poetry: a special note Payment, returns, simultaneous submission, etc General stipulations 1. All work we receive must be unpublished. 2. You may submit up to one piece in each category (academic/fiction/nonfiction) per issue 3. Poetry is only accepted if the editors consider it to be exceptional 4. All submissions must be in Word format, single-spaced 5. Your name and the title of your work must be in the header 6. All submissions are accepted by email only to our literary editor 7. Include your real name, any pseudonym (clearly marked), contact email, where you live, and the word count in the body of your email 8. Please note, submissions to our general email address, or submissions provided in the body of an email, will be deleted TOP Style guidelines 1. Single space after a full-stop 2. Use single quotation marks only 3. Australian spellings only, unless within dialogue where it could reasonably be an accent (-our, -ise) TOP Word lengths & categories 1. SHORT fiction is defined as fiction up to 3,000 words 2. MEDIUM fiction is defined as fiction up to 10,000 words 3. Any fiction over 10,000 words will not be accepted 4. NONFICTION and ESSAYS must be limited to 5,000 words unless by prior arrangement 5. SERIALISED work is not done unless you can convince us of its merit 6. ARTWORK may be considered but only as cover art... can you convince us to use it? TOP Poetry: a special note POETRY is not accepted for publication unless we consider it to be exceptional TOP Payment, returns, simulationeous submission, and all the other stuff 1. We cannot pay you in $$$ for your submission ... it's all paid in karma baby! 2. IMPORTANT: Pieces are published on merit only 3. If we deem your piece to not be of a high enough standard, we will provide feedback 4. We do not return manuscripts. If it is not accepted, it is deleted. Always keep your own copy! 5. We do accept simultaneous submission, provided that we are informed that it is such, and that you let us know the instant you know it has been accepted elsewhere if you haven't heard from us 6. Rights remain with all authors for their work. If you reproduce a piece that first appeared in Harbinger, we request that it is acknowledged (and we like to hear about it so we can see where our writers end up!) TOP