New Sun Rising needs your stories, poems, and artwork celebrating Japan. They can be about Japanese people and culture, set in Japan, or executed in traditional Japanese forms. But those are just suggestions. Don’t feel limited—as long as the work is relevant to or evocative of Japan, that’s what we want.
Stories should be no longer than 5000 words, and please only send one, because we are going to have a lot of reading to do in a very short time.
Flash (under 1000 words) and micro-fiction are awesome. Please submit no more than 3 of these.
Poems should be no longer than 40 lines, and please no more than 3. (Unless it’s haiku. Then you can send us 5—and it’s still only 15 lines!)
We are also in need of some black and white artwork and photography. It should, again, be relevant to Japan. Please remember, we are putting together an ebook, so art submissions should be scalable to look good on all the devices people use for reading these days, plus print.
Please only send one submission (one story or 3 flashes or 3 poems or one picture) and please send us your best work. I know we’re balls to the wall on this, but we also want to create a beautiful book that honors Japan and its people.
Submissions should be emailed to: submissions@booksthathelp.org
Please paste your work into the body of the email. Do not send attachments. (If, in the case of poetry, it requires special formatting to be properly displayed, let us know that in the email.) We will not open any document attachments.
For artwork only, you may attach your piece as a .png, .jpg, or .gif file. We won’t open any other format. It doesn’t need to be high res, although you should have a high resolution version of the piece available.
This is a volunteer project for charity. We can’t afford to pay for your contributions; we’re asking for your work as a donation. There won’t be any royalties. All money from the book will go to a charity1 providing relief efforts in Japan.
More information here.
Stories should be no longer than 5000 words, and please only send one, because we are going to have a lot of reading to do in a very short time.
Flash (under 1000 words) and micro-fiction are awesome. Please submit no more than 3 of these.
Poems should be no longer than 40 lines, and please no more than 3. (Unless it’s haiku. Then you can send us 5—and it’s still only 15 lines!)
We are also in need of some black and white artwork and photography. It should, again, be relevant to Japan. Please remember, we are putting together an ebook, so art submissions should be scalable to look good on all the devices people use for reading these days, plus print.
Please only send one submission (one story or 3 flashes or 3 poems or one picture) and please send us your best work. I know we’re balls to the wall on this, but we also want to create a beautiful book that honors Japan and its people.
Submissions should be emailed to: submissions@booksthathelp.org
Please paste your work into the body of the email. Do not send attachments. (If, in the case of poetry, it requires special formatting to be properly displayed, let us know that in the email.) We will not open any document attachments.
For artwork only, you may attach your piece as a .png, .jpg, or .gif file. We won’t open any other format. It doesn’t need to be high res, although you should have a high resolution version of the piece available.
This is a volunteer project for charity. We can’t afford to pay for your contributions; we’re asking for your work as a donation. There won’t be any royalties. All money from the book will go to a charity1 providing relief efforts in Japan.
More information here.
