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Issue 4 Submission Guidelines
The Broken City is currently accepting submissions for its summer 2009 edition, History, repeated. We’re looking for creations dealing with or inspired by the past: stories from your personal history, anecdotes from our collective history, tales of trends or fads, and narratives steeped in nostalgia. Please, no prose about the first time you fell in love; we want submissions that will be meaningful to a broad audience—something insightful, funny, informative or compelling.
Have you been itching to write an essay about 15th century warfare? Are you imagining a short story about video game developers at Atari? Do you have some old photos you can scan? Was an album released in 1996 that changed your life? We want to see it all. Please send your poetry, fiction, non-fiction, comics, art, photography, music/book reviews to [email protected].
Deadline is: June 30, 2009.
Nothing that fits the theme? Send something anyway—there will likely be room for non-conforming work too.
General Submission Guidelines
1. The Broken City will consider any type of submission, the most common being: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, comics, art, photography, music/book reviews.
2. This is currently a non-paying publication. Rights to individual works published in The Broken City remain the property of the author.
3. There are no specific length requirements for written submissions, but we tend to recoil when presented with something longer than 5,000 words. Submissions can be pasted into an e-mail or, preferably, attached in a document that has the extension .doc, .docx, .rtf or .txt. Photos/illustrations should be high-quality and in either .jpg, .gif, .bmp or .tif format.
4. Accepted works may receive minor editing for spelling, grammar, punctuation, or word use, either to conform with the magazine's standards, or because you've done something that's harming an otherwise wonderful submission.
5. In consideration of the continuance of our sanity, please read these educational essays from Taddle Creek magazine. We agree wholeheartedly with their style mandate: