Paying Market: Stone Telling

20 June 2010
Paying Market: Stone Telling
STONE TELLING is looking for literary speculative poems with a strong emotional core. We focus on fantasy, science fiction, surrealism, and slipstream, but would consider outstanding science poetry and non-speculative poetry that fits the flavor of the magazine. Please note that we are not a mainstream literary poetry market, and non-speculative poetry will be an extremely hard sell.

While we are open to all speculative poetry, we are especially interested in seeing work that is multi-cultural and boundary-crossing, work that deals with othering and Others, work that considers race, gender, sexuality, identity, and disability issues in nontrivial and evocative ways. We’d love to see multilingual poetry, though that can sometimes be tricky. Try me!

STYLE: there are no style limitations, but rhymed poetry will be a hard sell. Please try me with visual poetry, prose poetry, and other genre-bending forms. I will consider experimental poetry, but please remember that not all experimental poems are easy to represent in an e-zine format.

READING PERIODS: For the inaugural issue of Stone Telling, submissions will open on June, 14th and will remain open till August 14th. Additional reading periods will be announced.

LENGTH: I will consider short and long poetry, but please don’t send me poems of epic length.

PLEASE SEND up to THREE (3) poems per submission. I prefer to receive poetry in the body of the email, but if your poem has non-standard formatting, you can send an attachment in .doc, .docx or .rtf format. Please put SUBMISSION: Author's name in the subject line.
Editorial address is poetry at stonetelling dot com

REPRINTS: Reprints are solicited, but if you have a reprint that you feel is especially appropriate for publication at Stone Telling, please query.

RIGHTS: If accepted, you will be granting Stone Telling first North American serial, promotional, non-exclusive anthology, and archival rights. Copyright will revert to the author upon publication. If the piece is subsequently published in another venue, we ask that you source Stone Telling as first publication.

PAYMENT: 5$ per unsolicited poem upon publication. Payment by Paypal strongly preferred, although other methods can be arranged.

More information here.
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