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« on: July 01, 2009, 12:23:59 AM » |
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LiteraryMary, journal of the beautiful, unusual and eclectic, will be publishing our second print issue in Spring of 2010. We are now accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, and black and white photography. We are also open to experimental pieces that don’t necessarily fall into any of those categories. Rather than ask you to familiarize yourself with our style, you should keep in mind that although we have plenty of class, we have no style. We intend to publish a myriad of styles, our main concern being that what you submit is written well. We do not believe that good writing needs to be style specific, but it does need to be sincere, honest and absolutely free of grammatical errors, spelling errors and the kind of mistakes professionals just don’t make. Please no previously published work. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but let us know if your work gets accepted somewhere else as soon as possible. Finally, we ask that if your writing has been workshopped over the internet you take it offline when you submit to us. Submit to us. I like the sound of that. It is important that you read this next part carefully, because if you do not submit in exactly the manner described below, we will reject your submission. If doing last year's journal taught us anything, it is that there is a reason editors are so tight assed about submission guidelines.If you are interested, please send up to six of your best pieces of poetry regardless of length and/or up to three pieces of fiction, for a total of no more than 4000 words, as separate attachments (using either .doc, docx, .rtf, or .wpd file extensions) to literary.mary.submissions@gmail.com. We will not accept submissions pasted into the body of an email or a single document. Do not zip your files. Experimental pieces and black and white photography should also be sent to this address. Please include your name and the best description you can come up with for what you’re submitting in the subject line, such as ‘poetry’ or ‘fiction’ etc. If you do not include a description in the subject line we will not read it. Don’t forget to include the email address at which you’d prefer to be contacted, a snail mail address, telephone number and a short bio in the body of the email. Submissions will be chosen in a mostly anonymous process and we will notify you whether or not you’ve been accepted in as timely a manner as possible. The deadline for submissions will be February 28, 2010. Payment will be one contributor’s copy since our staff works on a volunteer basis and that’s all we can afford right now. Extra copies will be available for purchase on the LiteraryMary website, and hopefully at a bookstore near you. Regardless, we will eventually take over the world. |
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« Reply #16 on: May 29, 2010, 06:58:00 PM » |
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First comes the man project. Which is almost complete. Actually, first comes these two papers for school I should be writing as I type this. Then comes the man project, which is almost ready for release. Then we finish reading for the journal and send rejections and acceptances. |
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« Reply #17 on: May 29, 2010, 10:51:07 PM » |
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bandini
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« Reply #18 on: June 04, 2010, 04:18:14 PM » |
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Okay, I'll bite: what's the "man project"? |
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Sana
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« Reply #19 on: June 04, 2010, 05:47:59 PM » |
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Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question
To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"
T.S. Eliot
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Father Luke
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« Reply #20 on: June 04, 2010, 09:04:44 PM » |
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Okay, I'll bite: what's the "man project"?
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"The castigation of fools is, of course, an ancient and honorable task of writers and, unless very poorly done, an enterprise that will usually entertain those who behold it." ~ Richard Mitchell |
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bandini
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« Reply #21 on: November 21, 2010, 02:12:53 AM » |
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Well, it's 6 months later & we seem to have moved no further with this one. . . |
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Sana
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« Reply #22 on: November 30, 2010, 04:07:36 AM » |
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Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question
To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"
T.S. Eliot
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Father Luke
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« Reply #23 on: December 09, 2010, 09:15:05 PM » |
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Well, it's 6 months later & we seem to have moved no further with this one. . .
I read this when the anonymous poster wrote this, and I recall the work done by staff in this regard: The mailing off of acceptance letters, the judging of the entries, and the discussion of the pieces submitted for print... Also the work Jenifer has done on the layout, and the design of the printing. Also the work redperil has done with gathering photographers. Also the work Sana has done with critically reading each and every entry received in addition to her newsletter chores done here at Mary. All for the free and the fun of it. I re-read the comments by the anonymous poster again today: Well, it's 6 months later & we seem to have moved no further with this one. . .
And I laugh knowing that those comments mean nothing to anyone. |
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"The castigation of fools is, of course, an ancient and honorable task of writers and, unless very poorly done, an enterprise that will usually entertain those who behold it." ~ Richard Mitchell |
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bandini
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« Reply #24 on: December 14, 2010, 07:37:43 PM » |
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I was referring to the "call for submissions" a year and a half ago for the "Spring 2010" issue of the journal, which seems to have stalled somewhere. |
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Father Luke
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« Reply #25 on: December 15, 2010, 12:21:02 AM » |
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I was referring to the "call for submissions" a year and a half ago for the "Spring 2010" issue of the journal, which seems to have stalled somewhere.
And I laugh knowing that {your} comments mean nothing to anyone. |
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"The castigation of fools is, of course, an ancient and honorable task of writers and, unless very poorly done, an enterprise that will usually entertain those who behold it." ~ Richard Mitchell |
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« Reply #26 on: December 15, 2010, 09:31:48 PM » |
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I was referring to the "call for submissions" a year and a half ago for the "Spring 2010" issue of the journal, which seems to have stalled somewhere. What does it matter to you? The staff of this site has undoubtedly donated countless hours to give a handful of authors a space (in PRINT! no less, in this very e-"publishing" world) to share their work. Notice the key word--donated. It doesn't bother me in the slightest knowing that the journal will take as long as it needs to take. That only means the appropriate amount of care and attention is being given. In short, suck it. |
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When you get blue and you've lost all your dreams, there's nothing like a campfire and a can of beans. |
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Jenifer
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« Reply #27 on: December 16, 2010, 01:52:08 AM » |
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Well, we almost have a cover. And layout comes after that. But I got two B's this term. Hopefully depression won't set in and cause a delay in the journal. Seriously, we get them out when we get them out. That's how we do it here. If that's worth it to you, cool. If not, that's alright too. |
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Father Luke
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« Reply #28 on: December 17, 2010, 01:28:55 PM » |
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Funny. Any time you -- in a general term "you", as in "y'all" -- anytime you take a stand you have to be prepared to be knocked off that stand. Evidently someone does care about the anonymous poster's comments. Wait until spring, Bandini. I was referring to the "call for submissions" a year and a half ago for the "Spring 2010" issue of the journal, which seems to have stalled somewhere.
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