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We’re closed to
submissions right now.

 

ABSOLUTELY
FOOLPROOF
SUBMISSION
GUIDELINES

(DON’T NOT FOLLOW THESE)

Yes!
No!

DOC or RTF

Separate documents for each submission

Short interesting third-person bio

Headshot (recommended)

Simultaneous submissions

Sending us something we’ve never seen

  

DOCX

Pasting submissions into email

Previous publications

Gratuitous sex or violence, erotica, fan fiction, genre fiction

Getting published in two consecutive issues

Getting paid (sorry ’bout that)


If you’re sending prose:

  1. Don’t. We’re closed to submissions right now.
  2. A story’s length should be justified by its polish. Length is not strength.
  3. Send up to three pieces of up to 5,000 words in separate documents.  Fiction or nonfiction.
  4. Every month we get a skillon jillion stories about bad relationships and smoking pot.  Unless you have something new to say, don’t.
  5. Double-space if you wish, but not by hitting “enter” after every line.
  6. Accepted authors are 83% awesomer when they make MP3 recordings of their stories.  Scientific fact.

 

If you’re sending poetry:

  1. Don’t. We’re closed to submissions right now.
  2. Send up to three poems in separate documents.  Try not to exceed 50 lines apiece.
  3. We like free verse better than we like rhyming poetry.
  4. If you get accepted, it’d be real cool if you made an MP3 of you reading your work.  (Not Gwendolyn Brooks real cool—legit real cool.)

 

If you’re sending art/photos:

  1. Don’t. We’re closed to submissions right now.
  2. Send the largest images you have.
  3. We prefer JPEG/JPG or PNG files.
  4. Titles and descriptions are optional.

 

 

Send all submissions to

 

When will I hear back from you?

You will generally hear back from us in a day or two.  If it’s been over 10 days, check your spam box, then send us an irate email.

 

What are my rights?

You keep the rights to your work, because they revert back to you after the run of the issue.  We claim First North American Serial rights, and the right to archive your work to infinity and beyond.  If your work is reprinted, please cite Writers’ Bloc as the initial publisher.  You may always withdraw a work unless it’s published in a PDF anthology.  Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.


What about Duotrope?

If you don’t use Duotrope, you should.  It’s a lit market search engine and personal submission tracker.  You do have to sign up (it’s quick and free), but the people who have signed up have literally kept the Bloc alive by reporting their response times to keep us on The Swift List.  We work very hard to stay there, so you should do this if you like us.  We like you.

 

 

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