Deadline: 15 June 2011
We are officially announcing a call for submissions of very short poetry and fiction by writers from India. By “writers from India” we mean writers who hold Indian citizenship, whether they currently live in India or abroad.
We are also announcing a call for visual art in digital format by writers from India, under the same definition as above.
We are an online literary journal published by twenty20 Publishing, a subsidiary of Diamond Point Press. We release 2-3 issues per quarter featuring very short writing, by which we mean poetry and fiction of 20 words or fewer. We have published Indian writers in the past, but have decided (for reasons which we will enumerate later) to devote our third Summer issue to Indian writers and artists only.
Our usual editor is not reading for this issue; instead we have a Guest Editor, Aju Mukhopadhyay. For those of you who have not had the pleasure of reading his work, his information follows below:
Aju Mukhopadhyay is a bilingual poet, critic, essayist, biographer, feature and fiction writer. Besides poems as usual, he has contributed haiku, tanka, haibun and such short poems of Japanese origin in different magazines and ezines. He is a regular contributor of poems and literary pieces to magazines and e-zines and sometimes in newspapers in India and abroad.
He has published 18 books in English and 12 in Bangla. He has seven books of poems published in English besides two in Bangla; three books of short stories in Bangla and two in English besides a novel in English. Among his works essays on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother deserve special mention. He has written their biographies in English and Bangla.
He edited three little magazines. He is included as advisor in the board of editors of some literary magazines. Quite a few of his works have been translated and included in anthologies. Critics have written essays on his poetry and some of them have been included in anthologies and books of Indian English Poetry. He has contributed articles, mainly on Indian English Literature, in about a dozen of books published by renowned publishers.
He was awarded Certificate of Competence as a Published Writer by the Writers Bureau, Manchester, UK; Best Poet of the Year-2003 by the Poets International, Bangalore, India; 2007 Editor’s Choice Published Poet award by the International Library of Poetry, USA; Excellence in World Poetry Award, 2009 by the International Poets Academy, Chennai. He is a member of the Research Board of Advisors of the American Biographical Institute who offered him the American Order of Merit. His poems sometimes topped the list or kept as one of the top poems in such web journals as Poetsindia.com and Asianamericanpoetry.com Voices Net., etc.
He works for the conservation and maintenance of nature, ecology and animal welfare. He vehemently supports the cause of tribal people of the world.
Now that you have been introduced to our Guest Editor, here is what we are looking for:
Microfiction: Literary stories of 20 words or fewer. You may submit between 1 and 3 stories at a time. We are not looking for driftwood, but the tips of icebergs.
Short Poetry: Poetry of 20 words or fewer. You may submit between 1 and 3 poems at a time. Try to say as much as possible in as few words as you can manage. We accept both freeverse or form. For most issues we have a “no haiku” policy, but since Aju Mukhopadhyay is this issue’s Guest Editor, and he sometimes writes in the form, we are allowing haiku this time. However, he has told us that he plans to accept no more than two haiku for this issue.
Art: Visual art in digital format (JPG/JPEG at least 1024 pixels wide) that represents India in some way. It may be in a modern regional style, or in the style of a certain period of history from a certain region, or it may be your own personal artistic vision of India. Photography is acceptable, as are scanned drawings, paintings, or tapestries, as are completely computer-made graphics. You must submit at least two pieces, preferably more, as we need both Cover art and Contents page art (look at a past issue), and we have always taken them both from the same artist.
You may submit pieces in any language, as long as you provide an English translation and both versions are 20 words or fewer. Aju Mukhopadhyay reads Bangla, Hindi, Sanskrit, French, and English, but has colleagues around the country who can help him with other languages. There may be cases where we are unable to verify the accuracy of your translation, in which case we will not be able to publish it. But please submit regardless of how obscure your language is; the worst thing that can happen is we’ll say we can’t take it.
Payment for a poem or short story is 5 USD (approximately 200-250 INR depending on daily exchange rate), usually paid shortly before the issue is released (in July or August). Payment for two pieces of visual art (Cover and Contents page) is 10 USD (about 400-500 INR depending on daily exchange rate). You must have a PayPal account to collect payment; we do not issue payment any other way.
You may not submit a piece to this journal that is currently under consideration elsewhere, nor may you submit a piece elsewhere that is currently under consideration by this journal. You may not submit a poem that has already been published in English by any publication, in any medium, that has one or more editors who subject submissions to review and decline some.
Please do not submit more than once per month, unless told otherwise by Aju Mukhopadhyay.
Please include a cover letter in English introducing yourself. It does not need to be detailed, and we would prefer it not be overly detailed.
Please also include a biographical statement in English of 20 words or fewer to be published alongside your work should it be accepted. It should be written in the third person (use words like he/his, she/hers or, if your name is Prasanth, Prasanth/Prasanth’s, but never I/my) with your submission. You may also include, separate from your bio, the URL of one website or blog of yours. This will be linked to your name in your bio if your work is published.
For writing, paste your submissions into the body of your email, unless the formatting requires that you send them in an attachment. If this is the case, the attachment should be .doc or .pdf. Do not send .docx files. Put “Poetry” or “Fiction,” plus your pen name, somewhere in the subject line.
For visual art, attach at least two submissions (more is better) in JPG format to the email. You may send visual art in low resolution first if you do not trust us, but we will need high resolution versions eventually if we accept them. We will only accept two pieces of visual art and they will almost 100% certainly be by the same artist. Competition is fierce. Send us your best work and send us a lot of it.
Emails should be in plain text, as formatting varies between email clients. If you use any kind of special formatting in your work, send as an attachment.
The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2011.
If you have read this entire page, you may send your submissions to aju@twenty20journal.com. Note this is DIFFERENT from our regular submissions address!
And if you still have some time, I would like to tell you a story. In 2009, a computer programmer and part-time poet from the United States spent six months working in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Something about that place with its many colors and diverse people, animals and plants changed his perspective, and soon after returning, he decided to pursue poetry more actively.
He founded Diamond Point Press soon after. In late 2010, he created this e-zine and named it twenty20 Journal because he wanted it to be “faster and harder-hitting” like 20/20 cricket, a sport he learned to love in India. He decided to devote Summer 2011 Issue 3 to poets, fiction writers, and artists from India to repay that beautiful country and its people in some small way for having him as a guest, if only for such a short time.
Contact Information:
For inquiries: aju@twenty20journal.com
For submissions: aju@twenty20journal.com
Website: http://twenty20journal.com/
We are officially announcing a call for submissions of very short poetry and fiction by writers from India. By “writers from India” we mean writers who hold Indian citizenship, whether they currently live in India or abroad.
We are also announcing a call for visual art in digital format by writers from India, under the same definition as above.
We are an online literary journal published by twenty20 Publishing, a subsidiary of Diamond Point Press. We release 2-3 issues per quarter featuring very short writing, by which we mean poetry and fiction of 20 words or fewer. We have published Indian writers in the past, but have decided (for reasons which we will enumerate later) to devote our third Summer issue to Indian writers and artists only.
Our usual editor is not reading for this issue; instead we have a Guest Editor, Aju Mukhopadhyay. For those of you who have not had the pleasure of reading his work, his information follows below:
Aju Mukhopadhyay is a bilingual poet, critic, essayist, biographer, feature and fiction writer. Besides poems as usual, he has contributed haiku, tanka, haibun and such short poems of Japanese origin in different magazines and ezines. He is a regular contributor of poems and literary pieces to magazines and e-zines and sometimes in newspapers in India and abroad.
He has published 18 books in English and 12 in Bangla. He has seven books of poems published in English besides two in Bangla; three books of short stories in Bangla and two in English besides a novel in English. Among his works essays on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother deserve special mention. He has written their biographies in English and Bangla.
He edited three little magazines. He is included as advisor in the board of editors of some literary magazines. Quite a few of his works have been translated and included in anthologies. Critics have written essays on his poetry and some of them have been included in anthologies and books of Indian English Poetry. He has contributed articles, mainly on Indian English Literature, in about a dozen of books published by renowned publishers.
He was awarded Certificate of Competence as a Published Writer by the Writers Bureau, Manchester, UK; Best Poet of the Year-2003 by the Poets International, Bangalore, India; 2007 Editor’s Choice Published Poet award by the International Library of Poetry, USA; Excellence in World Poetry Award, 2009 by the International Poets Academy, Chennai. He is a member of the Research Board of Advisors of the American Biographical Institute who offered him the American Order of Merit. His poems sometimes topped the list or kept as one of the top poems in such web journals as Poetsindia.com and Asianamericanpoetry.com Voices Net., etc.
He works for the conservation and maintenance of nature, ecology and animal welfare. He vehemently supports the cause of tribal people of the world.
Now that you have been introduced to our Guest Editor, here is what we are looking for:
Microfiction: Literary stories of 20 words or fewer. You may submit between 1 and 3 stories at a time. We are not looking for driftwood, but the tips of icebergs.
Short Poetry: Poetry of 20 words or fewer. You may submit between 1 and 3 poems at a time. Try to say as much as possible in as few words as you can manage. We accept both freeverse or form. For most issues we have a “no haiku” policy, but since Aju Mukhopadhyay is this issue’s Guest Editor, and he sometimes writes in the form, we are allowing haiku this time. However, he has told us that he plans to accept no more than two haiku for this issue.
Art: Visual art in digital format (JPG/JPEG at least 1024 pixels wide) that represents India in some way. It may be in a modern regional style, or in the style of a certain period of history from a certain region, or it may be your own personal artistic vision of India. Photography is acceptable, as are scanned drawings, paintings, or tapestries, as are completely computer-made graphics. You must submit at least two pieces, preferably more, as we need both Cover art and Contents page art (look at a past issue), and we have always taken them both from the same artist.
You may submit pieces in any language, as long as you provide an English translation and both versions are 20 words or fewer. Aju Mukhopadhyay reads Bangla, Hindi, Sanskrit, French, and English, but has colleagues around the country who can help him with other languages. There may be cases where we are unable to verify the accuracy of your translation, in which case we will not be able to publish it. But please submit regardless of how obscure your language is; the worst thing that can happen is we’ll say we can’t take it.
Payment for a poem or short story is 5 USD (approximately 200-250 INR depending on daily exchange rate), usually paid shortly before the issue is released (in July or August). Payment for two pieces of visual art (Cover and Contents page) is 10 USD (about 400-500 INR depending on daily exchange rate). You must have a PayPal account to collect payment; we do not issue payment any other way.
You may not submit a piece to this journal that is currently under consideration elsewhere, nor may you submit a piece elsewhere that is currently under consideration by this journal. You may not submit a poem that has already been published in English by any publication, in any medium, that has one or more editors who subject submissions to review and decline some.
Please do not submit more than once per month, unless told otherwise by Aju Mukhopadhyay.
Please include a cover letter in English introducing yourself. It does not need to be detailed, and we would prefer it not be overly detailed.
Please also include a biographical statement in English of 20 words or fewer to be published alongside your work should it be accepted. It should be written in the third person (use words like he/his, she/hers or, if your name is Prasanth, Prasanth/Prasanth’s, but never I/my) with your submission. You may also include, separate from your bio, the URL of one website or blog of yours. This will be linked to your name in your bio if your work is published.
For writing, paste your submissions into the body of your email, unless the formatting requires that you send them in an attachment. If this is the case, the attachment should be .doc or .pdf. Do not send .docx files. Put “Poetry” or “Fiction,” plus your pen name, somewhere in the subject line.
For visual art, attach at least two submissions (more is better) in JPG format to the email. You may send visual art in low resolution first if you do not trust us, but we will need high resolution versions eventually if we accept them. We will only accept two pieces of visual art and they will almost 100% certainly be by the same artist. Competition is fierce. Send us your best work and send us a lot of it.
Emails should be in plain text, as formatting varies between email clients. If you use any kind of special formatting in your work, send as an attachment.
The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2011.
If you have read this entire page, you may send your submissions to aju@twenty20journal.com. Note this is DIFFERENT from our regular submissions address!
And if you still have some time, I would like to tell you a story. In 2009, a computer programmer and part-time poet from the United States spent six months working in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Something about that place with its many colors and diverse people, animals and plants changed his perspective, and soon after returning, he decided to pursue poetry more actively.
He founded Diamond Point Press soon after. In late 2010, he created this e-zine and named it twenty20 Journal because he wanted it to be “faster and harder-hitting” like 20/20 cricket, a sport he learned to love in India. He decided to devote Summer 2011 Issue 3 to poets, fiction writers, and artists from India to repay that beautiful country and its people in some small way for having him as a guest, if only for such a short time.
Contact Information:
For inquiries: aju@twenty20journal.com
For submissions: aju@twenty20journal.com
Website: http://twenty20journal.com/
