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General Submission Guidelines
(Updated 5/18/12)
-With rare exceptions, writers are not compensated.
-Guernica will hold 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.
-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.
-It’s exhausting for us to page through multiple submissions. Please one submission at a time.
-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-We are ONLY interested in original, unpublished manuscripts. Your work MUST be unpublished anywhere, including your blog. (If a translation, the translation must not have been published. The original may have been.)
-When submitting your work, allow at least eight 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.
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 3,500 to 7,000 words
To submit a shorter essay to the Daily site, please write to blog@guernicamag.com
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 eight weeks before querying about the status of your submission.
Fiction
by email: fiction@guernicamag.com
attn Fiction Editors
In subject line (please follow this format exactly): “fiction submission”
Length/quantity: No fewer than 1,200 words and no more than 3,500 words/one story or novel excerpt per submission.
PLEASE NOTE: Guernica strongly prefers that its fiction has an international outlook. Works in translation are especially welcome—as long as we will have the rights to publish the piece. Guernica tends to publish stories that have a beginning, middle, and end; that aren’t a “flash.” We’re looking for a good story, not a fictionalized screed. We don’t publish satire or genre.
Fiction that exceeds our 3,500-words guideline are usually solicited. Stories that are too-short for us will not be accepted, unless solicited or grouped into numbers of two or more that meet our word count. Stories that are too long: if you strongly feel you’re right for us, send it.
Send ARCs of your fiction to:
Meakin Armstrong
Guernica Magazine
P.O. Box 219 Cooper Station
New York, NY 10276-0219
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:
Erica Wright
Guernica Magazine
395 Fort Washington Ave., Apt. 57
New York, NY 10033
Art / Photography
by email: art@guernicamag.com
attn: Art Editors
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.
General Inquiries, Feedback
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