- Submission Guidelines -
Submissions by invitation
only.
Any submission which fails
to follow these guidelines might summarily vanish into an electronic
nozone.
Any submission which fails
to follow these guidelines might pass unscathed through an electronic
nozone and, as such, shall be considered with all due respect.
The editor is inclined to
disdain guidelines such as these, and thus might be prone to respect
those who likewise choose to ignore all that follows.
All submissions must be
electronic. Work must be either pasted into the body of an email
message or included as an attachment. If you do submit work as
an attachment, please supply the file name in the body of your
email message.
In the subject line of your
submission, please clarify that the material is intended for wire
sandwich. For example, your subject line might appear as follows:
sandwich submission - pickles.
Please submit up to but
no more than 5 poems or 10 cumulative pages. Other work is welcome,
especially reviews or pieces in which expectations relating to
genre are challenged.
Please introduce yourself.
While cover letters are not required, sincere attempts to communicate
are appreciated. Please refrain, however, from overindulgent documentation
of biographical expertise. Editorial disinterest at wire sandwich
pertains especially to excessive publishing accomplishments and
advanced degrees.
If your work is not accepted,
this does not necessarily reflect any judgment on the part of
the sandwich regarding the acceptability of your character or
the quality of your work. Please try again.
Should your work appear
in the sandwich, please take the opportunity to provide links
to work found elsewhere online. Remember, however, that a sense
of discretion might likewise reflect a gift for finesse.
wire sandwich acquires exclusive
one-time online/electronic rights to publish prose and poetry
and to maintain archives that contain current and previously published
material. After publication, all rights revert to the author.
If the work should be published in the future, the sandwich asks
only for credit.
These guidelines are subject
to revision.
- many thanks,
and best wishes to all participants in this poetry circus -
wiresandwich@main.nc.us
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