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For submissions guidelines see the appropriate section below.

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General Submission Guidelines

(Updated 5/27/11)

These are general guidelines. Additional, specific guidelines for nonfiction, fiction, and poetry are below. Please read all the way to the bottom.

-With rare exceptions, writers are not compensated.
-Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, as long as you notify the Guernica editors if your piece is accepted elsewhere. Failure to do this may result in an embargo on any future pieces submitted to us.
-We rarely accept a submission solely from the pitch. To avoid delayed responses, please send the full manuscript you'd like us to publish.
-We are ONLY interested in original, unpublished manuscripts. Your work MUST be unpublished. (If a translation, the translation must not have been published. The original may have been.)
-When submitting your work, allow at least six weeks for a response.
-Please provide a bio in your cover letter.
-Place your submission in an attached Microsoft Word file. Do not paste it.
-Format the document correctly: put only one space between each of your sentences, not the old, typewriter default of two spaces.
-For all correspondence about your submission, re-send your original email so we can find your original submission more easily. In the text of your re-sent email, include your question.
-Guernica holds exclusive rights (on the Internet and in print) to your piece for 90 days, after which you will retain the rights; your story will remain archived online.
-Should your work be published in a collection at some later date, we'd appreciate the standard acknowledgment.

Please follow our submission guidelines closely, otherwise your submission may be misdirected and you may not receive a response.

For further details, please see the information below.

Departments (Specific Guidelines on How to Submit Your Work)

Essays
by email: editors@guernicamag.com
In subject line (please follow this format exactly): “nonfiction submission”
length/quantity: 1 essay/less than 5,000 words

Interviews
by email: editors@guernicamag.com
In subject line (please follow this format exactly): “interview submission” We prefer the full interview manuscript rather than a pitch. All interviews must contain an introduction (check our Interviews archive for examples). If your interview emphasizes anywhere how lucky you were to get time with your subject, your subject’s generosity in sitting down with you, or otherwise sycophantic feints, we are less likely to run it. Please allow six weeks before querying about the status of your submission.

Fiction
by email: fiction@guernicamag.com
attn Meakin Armstrong
In subject line (please follow this format exactly): “fiction submission”
Length/quantity: No fewer than 700 words, no more than 2,500 words/one story or novel excerpt per submission.
Please note: we do not consider ourselves to be an outlet for flash fiction. We prefer stories over 1,000 words.
Guernica is looking for a good story, not a fictionalized screed. We don’t publish fiction that lectures, or has an obviously political point of view. We don't publish satire.
We strongly prefer our stories to have an international outlook. Works in translation are more than welcome; please send us your translated fiction, as long as we will have the rights to publish the piece.
In addition to all of the general guidelines listed above, please wait for a response before sending another story.
Guernica takes great pride in its track record of publishing unsolicited work. However, we do not respond to inquiries about the status of submissions.
Other than on our blog, Guernica doesn’t publish fiction reviews. However, we’re interested in seeing advance copies of your soon-to-be-published work in order to possibly excerpt it. To mail an advance copy of your fiction ONLY:
Meakin Armstrong
P.O. Box 219 Cooper Station
New York, NY 10276-0219
(Again, please note that this address is for Guernica fiction advance copies ONLY. Guernica’s general business address is noted above.)

Poetry
by email: poetry@guernicamag.com
attn Erica Wright
Send up to five poems of any length. Translations welcome. Email submissions strongly preferred. Please send any snail mail correspondence to:
Guernica Magazine
attn Erica Wright
395 Fort Washington Ave., Apt. 57
New York, NY 10033

Art / Photography
by email: art@guernicamag.com
attn: Jamie Goldenberg
In subject line (please follow this format exactly): “art/photography submission”
Please attach low-resolution JPEGs to your email along with a brief description of your project. Please do not send links.

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