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ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE OF WRITING A
NOTE ON SUBMISSIONS ______________ BEFORE SUBMITTING PLEASE READ: SUBMISSION GUIDELINES A.- General The
Writers Post publishes selected literary pieces in a variety of genres:
fiction (short stories, short shorts), poetry (rhymed poems, free verse),
translations, reviews, and essays on literature and art. Submissions are
considered on their own merits, and no author's publishing background is
particularly advantageous to the work. Please note that literature of escape,
narrative poems, pattern poetry, and genre fiction may not fit The Writers
Post; any essay, review containing libel, invasion of privacy, obscenity, substantial disruption will not be accepted. Fiction
length: 1,000 words minimum; 10,000 words maximum. The Writers Post doesn't
publish short-shorts translations (under 1,500
words). Send your submission to The Writers Post at: No queries. No
simultaneous submissions. Reports in 4-6 weeks. Publishes ms in the next
issue after acceptance. Submissions may also be sent by email to songvan@msn.com. (see
emailed submission below). B. - Submitting to the English Literature Section. The
work submitted to The Writers Post/ English Literature Section is an
unpublished literary material on which the sender owns the copyright.
Submissions (in the US) must be sent by conventional mail. No reprint
submissions. As always, translations and poems will not be edited. The author
should check the poem(s) for typos and grammatical errors before submitting. (To comply
with terms and agreements
below). C. - Submitting to Literature-in-Translation
Section. Submissions
of Literature translations could either be unpublished or published literary
pieces. Published translations submitted to the magazine by the author or translator are posted in the PrintPubs.
Section. They could be short stories, poems, and essays extracted from print
publications: books, journals, and magazines. To be republished in The
Writers Post the author/ translator is responsible for obtaining the
permission(s) of the copyright-holder(s). By submitting the work that has
already been published the author/ translator affirms that the permission(s)
is obtained, and gives the editor the right to republish the work in The
Writers Post, to archive and make it permanently available for the online
reader. (Note: PrintPubs. Section is now closed,
published work may be accepted for Literature-in-translation section).
Translations will not be edited. The author/ translator must check the
translation for typos errors before submitting. In case errors appear in the
current issue, The Writers Post, if requested, will make the correction in
the following issue. The Writers Post cannot make any change in the current
issue. The translator should bear in mind that unauthorized translations
violate the copyright law. Translation submissions should be accompanied by a
copy of the original work. (To comply with terms and agreements below). D. – Regular mail submissions Submission
must be send in the form of a 3”1/2 floppy disk, in document format,
accompanied by the printout, a cover letter that includes your confirmation
and a simple contract, and a curriculum vitae (CV), complete with current biographical
data, contact information and publication list (if applicable). On every page
of the printout, in the upper right corner, please write: Submit to The
Writers Post, and sign the author real name. Please include a simple contract
that says you grant The Writers Post First Serial Rights
for publication in a future issue, and the electronic rights to archive and
make it permanently available
for The Writers Post readers (see terms and agreements below) D. – Emailed submissions Address your email --
Address your email to N. Saomai,
Editor, The Writers Post. Cover letter — Write the same kind of cover letter as for regular mail
submissions, confirm that the work(s) are submitted solely to The Writers
Post, that they are unpublished, and that you are the sole and original
author. Please include a simple contract that says you grant
The Writers Post First Serial Rights for publication in a future issue, and
the electronic rights to archive and make it permanently available
for The Writers Post readers
(see terms and agreements below). How to submit -- All emailed submissions must be PASTED INTO THE BODY OF THE EMAIL. Acceptable Text Format: Microsoft Word for Windows. Save your story in Plain
Text, then copy and paste it into the body of the email. DON’T SEND
ATTACHMENTS. No attachments will be accepted The email subject line -- The subject line of your email must read: Submission
to The Writers Post: [type “The title of your story”]. The author name -- Beneath the title of the poem/story, type author name
the way you want it appear (your real name or pen name). End of the work submitted -- Type THE END or AUTHOR NAME at the end of your poem/story. (This let us know the whole poem/story has been received Curriculum vitae (CV) -- the work(s) are
followed by a curriculum vitae (CV), complete with current biographical data,
contact information (see terms and agreements below). D. – Terms and Agreements
I - The Writers Post is non-profit. We’re sorry we cannot pay contributors at this time.
However, we at TWP have all made an effort to ascertain the highest
reputation of every work published in The Writers Post, and every poet,
writer, translator and artist contributing to this magazine as well. As for contributors,
the biographical introductions to contributors will serve our purpose. The
biographical introductions to contributing poets, writers, translators and
artists are written by The Writers Post’s editor N. Saomai,
and are published in our front page. They will also appear in the “TWP
Biographical Database”,
along with a photograph if available, after being slightly altered by more or
less factual information by editor N. Saomai to
make it fit the Database. Biographical data in
the TWP Biographical Database are subject to change where needs be to bring
factual information on the authors published in The Writers Post up to date.
Biographical
introductions to contributing poets, writers, translators and artists are
based on biographical information submitted by contributors. For this
purpose, please send us: 1) a curriculum vitae (CV), complete with
current biographical data, contact information. (Please don’t
bother to write your Bio in order to submit it to The Writers Post. While
most literary magazines do publish Bio written by the contributor, The
Writers Post does not publish Bio written by the contributor. A
Bio written by the contributor, if received, will be considered as a CV, on
which our editor will base to write his introduction to the contributor, with
more or less factual information omitted or added from different reliable
sources). (2) a photograph of yourself if there is no inconvenience
caused, and if you'd like to have your photograph published in The Writers
Post. By submitting your photograph of yourself, you grant us permission to
publish it in association with the biographical introduction to contributor
published in The Writers Post front page, and in relation with your
biographical data published in the ‘TWP Biographical
Database’. Although the
biographical introductions to contributing poets, writers, translators and
artists written by The Writers Post’ editor are mostly based on the
curriculum vitas submitted by contributors, please be advised that the
contributor should not expect TWP to have its introduction saying exactly
what the contributor wants to say. In any case the contributor should not
expect that he could give an editorial opinion on the introduction to the contributor
written by The Writers Post. The editor reserves the right to refuse the
contributor’s suggestion that certain information should be added from the
submitted CV, and the right to omit certain information, even if it is
factual. Also, please be advised that all biographical introductions to
contributors published in The Writers Post are The Writers Post’s properties,
copyrighted by The Writers Post, and cannot be in any ways and means reused
by the contributor or anyone. II - We ask contributors to confirm the
submission is not a simultaneous submission, original, unpublished, and to
sign a simple contract saying that they grant The Writers Post First Serial
Rights for publication, the electronic rights to archive, and the anthology
rights to reprint the manuscript (poetry only) in a print version entitled
“The Writers Post POETRY Series”, so please enter the following cover letter
which includes confirmation and contract: [1] for poetry; [2] for story/article/novel
excerpt etc…) at the top of your email. [1]: for poetry. [Dear editor, I
enclose a poetry submission, as your guidelines indicate, for The Writers
Post. Please consider my poems [titles of poems] for publication. My name is ___________,
[address] ___________________ I confirm that these poems are
submitted solely to The Writers Post, that they are unpublished works, and
that I am the sole and original author. I hereby grant The Writers Post First
Serial Rights for publication in a future issue, and the electronic rights to
archive and make it available for The Writers Post readers. I also grant The
Writers Post anthology rights to reprint these poems in the future dead-tree
version of Poetry published in the Writers Post entitled “The Writers Post
POETRY Series” published one time a year, which will be sent out as
complimentary copies for poetry promotion purpose.] [2]: for fiction/ non-fiction. [Dear editor, I
enclose a submission, as your guidelines indicate, for The Writers Post.
Please consider this story/article… [title of
story/article…] for publication. My name is ___________, [address]
_________________________ I confirm that my story/article
[ title of story/article…] is submitted solely to
The Writers Post, that [ title of story/article] is unpublished work, and
that I am the sole and original author. I hereby grant The Writers Post First
Serial Rights for publication in a future issue, and the electronic rights to
archive and make it available for The Writers Post readers.] By
submitting the work, as this guidelines herein indicates, the author/
translator gives The Writers Post’s editor the First Serial Rights to publish it in
The Writers Post, electronic rights to archive and make it permanently
available for the online reader, and anthology rights to reprint it
(poetry only) in the future dead-tree version. On the work(s) published in The
Writers Post the author/ translator owns the copyright. Book publishers, anthologists
may contact the author/ translator. When the author/ translator sells his/ her work(s) to a publisher for print
publication The Writers Post should be acknowledged as the magazine that
first published the work(s). E. - Contact N.
Saomai, Editor, The Writers Post. The Writers Post, based in the USA, established on July 1999. |