NEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Hi y’all! We hope you are loving the latest issue of Insert Lit Mag Here as much as we are!! We have a fun new project that we want to share with you! We are currently working on our 2016 chapbook slate, but in addition to that we are opening submissions for a new zine!
“What I’m Trying To Say Is: a collection of love letters”
We are publishing a collection of love letters! We want to read yours!! send us your most sincere, disgustingly gushy, and delightfully naive letters. We want to be able to feel how passionate you are. There’s no shame in feeling fully and honestly. The whole point of this project is embracing sincerity!! You think you sound like a sap? GOOD!! Share that with us!!
Here are some of our guidelines/general info.
We won’t be publishing the names of who your letters are too, for general privacy reasons and because publishing other people’s names without their consent is fucking creepy. Feel free to send us the unedited version, including their name. We’ll change it to (REDACTED) before it ever sees the light of day!
The love letters do not have to be poems in any way! But poems will be accepted as submissions!
Submissions can be any length up to 1500 words! (you don’t have to actually count the words but please for the love of god don’t send us something that is five pages long.)
Sadly we are unable to pay our writers right now because we are all college students who make barely livable amounts of money. We will mail out contributor copies to anyone who’s submission is accepted! We are sorry!
We are using the word “letter” incredibly loosely. Have a text message that feels like a love letter to you? send it to us. An email? A diary entry? perfect!!!
We heavily want to encourage writers who identify as anything other than white cishet men to submit. We have zero desire as a press to publish works that are dominated by cishet white men. Doing so is racist and incredibly boring. So if you aren’t a white cishet man, please submit!! We want to hear from you!
All submissions should be emailed as attachments (google doc or word doc please! your submission will not be disqualified if it isn’t but this makes our lives easier!) to Josephjohnbarchi (at) gmail.com!
Submissions are open as of today! They will remain open until August 10th. You can send any questions to the email listed above!! We can’t wait to read your submissions and share the finished product with you this fall!!