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Submission Guidelines 2010
Welcome to Caesura Literary Magazine's submission guidelines for Fall 2010! These guidelines are for authors and artists who want to submit to the magazine. Please follow the guidelines closely. Failure to do so may result in the rejection of your submission.
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Deadline
The deadline for all submissions is: November 10, 2010
NOTE: Submissions after the deadline will not be considered.
What to Submit
Please read carefully. Failure to follow the guidelines may result in the rejection of your submission.
Categories: Caesura accepts submissions to the following categories:
- Fiction
- Poetry
- Creative Non-fiction
- Artwork
Fiction: Short pieces up to 5 pages long (single-spaced). Stories must be works of fiction and can be on any topic. (For essays or memoirs, please submit to Creative Non-fiction.) You may submit up to 3 stories (including any submitted to Creative Non-fiction).
Poetry: Poetry on any topic, in any style (sonnet, free verse, etc.) Please do not send poems longer than 2 pages. Please put all poems in separate files and provide titles (otherwise we have to assume the first line is the title). You may submit up to 5 poems.
Creative Non-fiction: Non-fiction includes creative essays and memoirs. (Fictional pieces should be submitted to Fiction, not this category.) Pieces should not be more than 5 pages long (single-spaced). You may submit up to 3 pieces (including any submitted to Fiction).
Artwork: You may submit up to 3 artwork pieces. Artwork takes mainly photography, but will consider other 2-D media (paint, charcoal, pencil, etc.). All submissions must be black-and-white or gray-scale (our magazine does not print in color). Also, images should be:
- 300 dpi at 100 percent size; in other words, if an image is 4x6, it should be 300 dpi at 4x6. Pixel dimensions should be a minimum of (width) 1800 pixels by (height) 2700 pixels.
- .tif file type
Finally, please present your work professionally. Spelling and grammar mistakes make your work difficult to read and can result in its rejection, even if the content is good. Caesura staff are not here to proofread your pieces. Please make sure your work is in its best shape when you submit it.
How to Submit
Please put all stories, poems, and art pieces in SEPARATE files with the titles as their file names. Do NOT put your name in the file name or the document itself (we do all selection of submissions anonymously). All writing submissions must be in Word documents. Attach all files to an email to caesura@english.udel.edu
In the body of the email please include:
- Your full name
- Your contact information
- The titles of all your pieces
- Indicate which category EACH PIECE belongs in. (Failure to do so can result in problems with fiction and non-fiction getting mixed up, esp.)
Judging and Awards
All submissions are discussed anonymously by the Caesura staff. If your work is selected to be published, you will be notified by email. Published creative writing and artwork submissions are eligible for prizes, which will be awarded by Maggie Leffler at her reading in April 2011. More details about the event and time will be available in the Spring Semester. The awards are:
The American Academy of Poets Prize
$100
The Elda Wollaeger Gregory Poetry Award
First Prize: $300
Second Prize: $200
The Thomas W. Molyneux Prose Award
First Prize: $300
Second Prize: $200
Caesura Art Award
$100