SUBMIT
The first annual Melusine poetry contest, the Vivienne Haigh-Wood Prize, is now closed. Thank you for all the great entries. Finalists will be notified and posted on the blog within the next two months, and the winner, runner-up and honorable mentions will be announced in the Spring issue, out in May.
We are open, year-round, to submissions of short (6,000 words or less) or flash fiction, visual art, poetry (1-4 poems) and, as of now, even shorter (2,000 words or less) creative nonfiction for our new blog series. The blog series has replaced the nonfiction section in the regular issues. We continue to look for carefully crafted creative nonfiction pieces for the new blog format, but we are now seeking pieces that are more succinct and suitable for a more immediate format. For instance, timely pieces, brief reflections, as well as art, film, music, and literature reviews (whatever the author is struck with at the time of writing) are welcome alongside more traditional nonfiction pieces such as essays and autobiographical sketches.
We publish reviews of chapbooks and full-length works of any genre, 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're 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, including formal (not greeting-card) verse.
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 much 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.
Regarding simultaneous submissions, they're fine as long as you notify us immediately if they're accepted elsewhere so that we can remove them from consideration. Previously published work is not acceptable, however.
We are now accepting regular submissions in fiction, poetry and art for the Spring 2010 issue, as well as nonfiction shorts for our biweekly blog series.
