SUBMIT
We are open, year-round, to submissions of flash fiction (stories no longer than 1,000 words, submitted no more than three at a time), visual art, and poetry (1-4 poems) for our biannual Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter issues, as well as brief (no longer than 2,000 words) creative nonfiction for our biweekly blog series. We are also accepting entries for our first flash fiction contest. The deadline is March 15, 2012 and full guidelines are here.
We publish reviews of chapbooks and full-length works of any genre in our blog series as well, so please send a query if you would like your book reviewed or if you have read a recent book that you would like to review for Melusine. We will also consider unsolicited reviews that may be of interest to our readers.
We're always looking for carefully crafted, thought-provoking work that explores all angles of the contemporary female experience, especially those sharp, jagged angles. Men are welcome to submit work as well. Our tastes usually veer away from the confessional or overtly political, but quality is our final criteria, so you never know. We're open to all styles of writing.
We ask that you please wait until you've heard a response on one submission before sending another. Six months is the longest we'll take to respond, but you'll usually hear from us sooner. Paste your submission in the body of an e-mail to sub2melusine@gmail.com, accompanied by a short & sweet 1-3-sentence bio. You can attach a Word document version of your submission as well. Send thumbnails of artwork, with the title of each piece clearly labeled. Please mention the genre of your submission in the subject line of the e-mail and provide a word count for all prose submissions.
Simultaneous submissions are fine as long as you notify us immediately if they're accepted elsewhere so we can remove them from consideration. Previously published work is not acceptable, however. Rights revert to the author upon publication, except that we reserve the right to publish any material appearing in the online issues in a future biennial print edition. (Look for the first one in 2012.) We're sorry that we cannot pay authors at this time, but those authors appearing in the print edition will receive a complimentary copy of that volume as well as additional copies at a discounted rate.
We are now accepting submissions of poetry, flash fiction and artwork for our Spring/Summer 2012 issue, as well as brief nonfiction and book reviews or review queries for our biweekly blog series. From this point, we will no longer be accepting standard-length short fiction, only flash fiction of 1,000 words or less. See above for guidelines to our flash fiction contest.
