Unusual Calls for Submissions
compiled by Gloria Bonnell
If you have the urge to “get small” maybe you
should consider sending your work to Inch Magazine. Inch is a quarterly magazine devoted to tiny poems and tiny
fiction. They believe that “good things come in small packages,” so they focus
their eight pages on poems of one to nine lines, or fiction of 750 words or
fewer. Their Fall 2012 issue will be dedicated to short memoir. Submit by
November 1, 2012. Their theory is, if life is too short then you shouldn't
need more than 700 words to tell your tale. ‘Nough said. Submit your smallest and best stuff
here.
Or maybe you have
an obsession that has been eating away at your creative time? Write about it
and then submit to 580 Split – it’s what they are looking for. 580 Split is the
graduate literary journal housed at Mills College in Oakland, California. They
are seeking “work that inquires into,
is inspired by, or speaks directly to the idea of obsession.” So if you have
something on paper that fits this, send it to them by October 28, 2012.
And just to cover a
new kid on the block, we want to send you over to look at Spry Literary Journal. The journal is currently looking for submissions for its inaugural
issue, which will be published in December 2012. They envision Spry as a
literary journal that features “undiscovered and established writers' concise,
experimental, hybrid, modern, vintage or just-plain-vulnerable writing.” They
see their magazine as “a place for people who excel at taking risks, who thrive
under pressure - for people whose words and rhythms are spry.” Sounds good, and
we wish them the best. Submit to them here.
Happy submitting!