Deadline: 1 June 2011 (third issue)
We look forward to discovering great literature and encourage all writers to submit their work. Literary Laundry rejects the belief that authors must pay in order to have their work read. We therefore require no submission fee.
Literary Laundry Competitions
Each issue of Literary Laundry is accompanied by a writing competition. All pieces submitted to us for review will be entered into consideration for our Awards of Distinction. We offer the following cash awards:
$500 for best poem
$500 for best short story
$250 for best one-act drama
In addition to considering undergraduate works for the Awards of Distinction, we will also consider them for the following undergraduate awards:
$250 for best poem
$250 for best short story
Submissions for our third issue are due June 1, 2011. There is no fee to submit.
Literary Laundry Submission Policies
In order to submit work to either the journal or the showcase , authors must subscribe to Literary Laundry and create an account with username and password.
1. Authors may submit only one work per category during each review cycle. Authors can, however, submit work in multiple categories during one review cycle.
2. Poets may submit up to three pages of poetry. It does not matter to us whether we receive one three page poem or many short poems on three pages. Poems, however, must be submitted in one document. This document should not be formatted with multiple columns to a page unless such formatting is integral to the endeavors of the poem.
3. Authors submitting prose fiction may submit one short story (or one chapter from a larger piece) per review cycle. We ask that submissions be single-spaced and kept to less than 10 pages single-space.
4. Authors submitting one-act drama may submit one piece per review cycle. We ask that submissions be single-spaced and kept to less than 15 pages single-spaced.
5. Submissions should be formatted using 1 inch margins and a minimum font size of 11 points. Of course, if formatting manipulation is required by the artistic aims of the piece, it is permissible.
6. Authors must include a cover letter as a preface to their submission. This cover letter should contain a one paragraph biography and a one to two paragraph “abstract” explaining why the writing submitted is intellectually evocative or of interest to a contemporary audience. This cover letter should be included in the document submitted.
7. Undergraduates should indiciate their school, year of study, field of study, and undergraduate status beneath their signature on the cover letter.
The Signature should be formatted as follows:
Name
University, Class of (Year)
B.A./B.S. Candidate in (Field of Study)
Undergraduate
Failure to provide such details in the cover letter signature may jeopardize consideration for undergraduate awards.
8. We welcome work that does not conventionally fall in one of these three genres. Please submit the work to the genre of your preference and explain its form in the abstract.
9. All submissions must be previously unpublished.
10. In order to submit work to Literary Laundry, authors must subscribe to the journal and create an account with username and password.
11. Literary Laundry is committed to ensuring that authors retain full rights to their submissions. We request that pieces selected for publication not appear in other literary journals within 18 months of online publication by Literary Laundry. If a work published on Literary Laundry is published again in the future, we ask only for an acknowledgment that the piece first appeared in Literary Laundry.
Deadlines and the Literary Laundry Calendar
The submission deadline for our next journal issue (and third round of competitions) is June 1, 2011.
A Note:
Literary Laundry strives to be accessible and writer-friendly. Nonetheless, our primary aims are fast turn-around and the production of a high-quality journal. We do not intend to hold your work for longer than one journal cycle. All submitters to issue 3, for example, will be notified within 6 months following the release of issue 2.
If you submit work to Literary Laundry, you will receive either an acceptance e-mail or a notification that the new issue has been published. We attempt to announce publication releases within 24 hours of loading the journal online. We assume that our submitters support Literary Laundry's desire to showcase masterful and intellectually engaging works of creative writing. Rather than "reject," we invite our submitters to read the journal and discuss it in the forums.
Submit here.
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