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Q: What sets your publication apart from others that publish similar material?
A: Open to never-before-published poets and those who have been out of the game for a long time. Fresh voices. Emotion without sappiness.
A: - We welcome returning submitters
- We welcome self-promotion of contributor's work
- We welcome submitters sharing as much or as little as they want about their work
- We welcome layout & design wishes
- We welcome previously published work
A: Because we only publish a few titles a year, we are able to give each one the attention it deserves. This means we are rigorous with our editing, thoughtful in our design, and responsive to our authors.
A: Two things set us apart: our focus on writers in the New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania tri-state area, and our commitment to using our publication to build communities of writers in our region. In addition to showcasing work by established writers, we publish new and emerging voices, including promising work from high school students.
A: Moist “dwells in possibility,” to quote Emily Dickinson. At Moist, the editor and guest editors are interested in poetry that is in the process of becoming—not stanzas cut from stone, but the sound of water. Moist is formally queer, and embraces queer and many-gendered and environment-driven language.
A: Our publication publishes art and creative writing from all over the globe from the heart of Nigeria. The works in this journal makes a statement of what is possible when preconceptions do not dictate the possible places where the world can meet. The journal--and the works therein--speaks with a variety of voices guided by the energy of an African vision. This is not a common thing.
A: Vector combines fan writing - in the form of reviews, opinion pieces, and regular columns - with academic articles, on a wide range of topics related to sf/f.
A: This is a site dedicated to skillful writing that is brief, humorous and engaging. The emphasis is on wit, word play, absurdity and inspired nonsense. Whether your work is designed to raise a smile or a belly laugh, we want pieces that are a refuge from the relentless barrage of negativity, angst, war and climate catastrophe that dominates the web.
A: We are a journal about environment in every sense of the word. Beginning at birth, each of us is bound to our environment. From pollution of the earth to pollution of the mind to server farm statistics to gardening on Mars… We’d publish a modernized rendition of War and Peace, follow that up with a pretty haiku about flowers, and the next minute release some weird sci-fi in the vein of Flowers for Algernon—so long as at the heart of each is a deep concern for the world around us. That’s what we want to highlight: stories and poems about "Us" and not "Me". It’s "We", in any case. We are in this together, for better or worse. Our approach (and what we look for in the work we publish) is thinking outside of one’s self, beyond the immediate, considering the future our actions today dictate. Additionally, we aim to highlight the Midwest United States and the Ozarks region, specifically. We are environmental advocates who wish to start a conversation the world keeps putting off having—and would keep putting off until it’s too late.
A: We like to think we do a particularly fine job of curating our line -- selecting the very best material to publish -- and that our books look uniquely handsome, with their hand-painted cover art. But show me a parent who doesn't think their baby is the cutest.
A: Our mission is to publish and elevate emerging poets (writers who have no more than one full-length book). To that end, we only publish emerging writers.
A: Our publication is committed to a Creator first approach. All works published are creator owned and we are merely a portal to them, so we retain no rights post publication to ensure that remains such. We also have in house artists who provide each piece with accompanying art as relevant to prose and poems regardless of size to give them that extra pop!