Deadline: 16 September 2012
NUS Literary Society would like to call for submissions for the third issue of Symbal – our online creative writing publication – which will be launched at the end of September. We are open to prose, poetry, dramatic extracts, articles and treatises from both undergraduate and graduate students studying in Singapore, tertiary students (JC/Poly/IB Year 5 onwards) as well as NSFs.
The theme for this issue will be ‘Southeast Asia’. Writers are free to contemplate anything from the Petronas Towers to the romanticised exoticism of the Orient; from today’s chilli crab, palm oil, and modern skylines to sundry Victorians who found themselves here despite thinking the climate most insalubrious.
SUBMISSION OF LITERARY WORKS
Symbal welcomes works from NUS undergraduate and graduate students, staff, students from other tertiary institutions (local junior colleges, polytechnics and other universities) and even those who are serving their national service. Unlike other publications, we welcome any kind of work that is of literary value regardless of whether it is poetry, prose, dramatic extract, commentaries or treatises.
However, due to space constraints, we would like the writers to observe the following guidelines:
Symbal reserves first serial and anthology rights. We may also consider publishing your work in other mediums, but will contact you in advance for approval. We will not publish your work without informing you.
SUBMISSION OF PHOTOGRAPHS/ILLUSTRATIONS
What is a magazine without some pictures or illustrations? If you would like an avenue to showcase your artistic skills, Symbal is the best place to do so! We welcome any form of photos, drawings and paintings. Do bear in mind that, at the moment, such submissions will be included in the publication if it is relevant to the theme or it fits a particular work as there is no space set aside to curate such works. However, do check back on the submission guidelines from time to time as there might be a section that would showcase such works in the future. Similarly, your submission would be an indication your agreement to allow us the rights to retain the pictures (which will still be credited to you) as well as to edit it to suit the publication.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Send all your works to symbalmagazine@gmail.com . Kindly preface the subject title with “Submissions: TITLE OF WORK”. Please submit your works either in the body of the email or attach a word document. Do not attach a PDF file. Failure to abide by this guideline will result in your work not being read at all. Should you have further enquiries kindly write to us via the same email address and preface the subject heading with “Enquiries: AREA OF CONCERN”.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries/ submissions: symbalmagazine@gmail.com
Website: http://symbal.zxq.net/?
NUS Literary Society would like to call for submissions for the third issue of Symbal – our online creative writing publication – which will be launched at the end of September. We are open to prose, poetry, dramatic extracts, articles and treatises from both undergraduate and graduate students studying in Singapore, tertiary students (JC/Poly/IB Year 5 onwards) as well as NSFs.
The theme for this issue will be ‘Southeast Asia’. Writers are free to contemplate anything from the Petronas Towers to the romanticised exoticism of the Orient; from today’s chilli crab, palm oil, and modern skylines to sundry Victorians who found themselves here despite thinking the climate most insalubrious.
SUBMISSION OF LITERARY WORKS
Symbal welcomes works from NUS undergraduate and graduate students, staff, students from other tertiary institutions (local junior colleges, polytechnics and other universities) and even those who are serving their national service. Unlike other publications, we welcome any kind of work that is of literary value regardless of whether it is poetry, prose, dramatic extract, commentaries or treatises.
However, due to space constraints, we would like the writers to observe the following guidelines:
- Poetry – Any form of poetry is welcomed but do keep it within a page of the word document.
- Prose – Any genre is acceptable but do keep the word limit between 500-2000 words. If you would like to submit a longer piece of work such as a novella, do provide us with a summary of your work and the full prose if possible. Do bear in mind that it will be serialised when you are writing this piece.
- Dramatic Extract – It should be no more than 2 scenes. It is advisable that the scenes should be able to generally stand on its own (i.e. the reader should be able to make out what is generally going on as well as the relationship(s) between the characters). Of course, if you would like to submit a monologue, you are more than welcome to do so.
- Commentaries/Treatises: Kindly keep to the word limit of not more than 2000 words. Do note that it must be relevant to the literary arts; expositions on a particular book/author, commentaries on the state of literature in the country/education system or even reflections on a particular literary event are accepted.
Symbal reserves first serial and anthology rights. We may also consider publishing your work in other mediums, but will contact you in advance for approval. We will not publish your work without informing you.
SUBMISSION OF PHOTOGRAPHS/ILLUSTRATIONS
What is a magazine without some pictures or illustrations? If you would like an avenue to showcase your artistic skills, Symbal is the best place to do so! We welcome any form of photos, drawings and paintings. Do bear in mind that, at the moment, such submissions will be included in the publication if it is relevant to the theme or it fits a particular work as there is no space set aside to curate such works. However, do check back on the submission guidelines from time to time as there might be a section that would showcase such works in the future. Similarly, your submission would be an indication your agreement to allow us the rights to retain the pictures (which will still be credited to you) as well as to edit it to suit the publication.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Send all your works to symbalmagazine@gmail.com . Kindly preface the subject title with “Submissions: TITLE OF WORK”. Please submit your works either in the body of the email or attach a word document. Do not attach a PDF file. Failure to abide by this guideline will result in your work not being read at all. Should you have further enquiries kindly write to us via the same email address and preface the subject heading with “Enquiries: AREA OF CONCERN”.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries/ submissions: symbalmagazine@gmail.com
Website: http://symbal.zxq.net/?
