Hawai'i Pacific Review - Call for Submissions

25 August 2010
Hawai'i Pacific Review - Call for Submissions
Deadline: 31 December 2010
Eligibility: no restrictions
Reading Fee: none
Accepts (genre): poetry, short fiction, personal essays
Prize/Payment: publication

STARTING SEPTEMBER 1, 2010, WE ARE CHANGING FROM HARD COPY TO ONLINE SUBMISSIONS.

Hawai'i Pacific Review accepts submissions for poetry, short fiction, and personal essays that speak with a powerful and unique voice. It encourages experimental narrative techniques and poetic styles, and welcomes works in translation (please include both the original work and the translation into English). While it occasionally accepts work from novice writers, HPR publishes only work of the highest quality.

* Manuscripts are accepted from September 1 to December 31 only. Manuscripts received at other times will be returned, and we will ask you to resubmit during the reading period.
* Include brief cover letter and five-line writer's biography in email.
* Send submission as Word.doc attachment to email.
* Author's name is required on all pages.
* Only one submission per issue, please.
* A prose (fiction or essay) submission is limited to 5,000 words.
* A poetry submission is limited to five poems, a maximum of 100 lines each.
* Open theme, open form.
* HPR acquires first North American serial rights. Rights revert to author upon publication.
* Payment: Two contributor's copies. Back copies are available for $5.00 postage paid.
* Authors of accepted submissions will be notified by reply email. Submissions not accepted will be returned upon making our decision, via email.
* Replies in one month or less via email.
* No previously published work will be accepted. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but please identify them in the email.
* Send submission as Word.doc attachment,brief cover letter and 5-line bio to: hprsubmissions@hpu.edu

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