Issue 7 Submission Guidelines
The Broken City is currently accepting submissions for its winter 2010 edition: Found! In this issue, we’ll be examining discovery—both literal and figurative.
Did you find some torn-out pages from a saucy diary lying on the street? Scan them and send them to us! Did you write a grocery list that was inadvertently comical? Show it to us! Did a crop circle mysteriously form in your back yard? Take a picture and pass it along!
Aside from reports on specific finds, we’d also like to see your fiction, poetry and essays that deal with issues of exploration and discovery. Do you have a short story about a protagonist that struggles to discover an important truth about their character? Have you invented a teachable, foolproof methodology for unearthing the best finds at garage sales? Surely, you have some poetry about looking for gold at the end of a rainbow!
Please send your poetry, fiction, non-fiction, comics, art, photography, music/book reviews to thebrokencitymag@yahoo.com.
Deadline is: November 15, 2010. Submitters will be contacted after that date, with news of acceptance or rejection.
Nothing that fits the theme? Send something anyway—there may be room for non-conforming work too.
General Submission Guidelines
1. The Broken City will consider any type of submission, the most common being: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, comics, art, photography, music/book reviews.
2. This is currently a non-paying publication. The Broken City claims one-time publication rights to accepted submissions. Rights to individual works published in The Broken City subsequently revert to the author. All issues of the magazine will be archived online, and available for viewing, indefinitely.
3. Written Submissions: There are no specific length requirements for written submissions, but we tend to recoil when presented with something longer than 3,000 words. Text submissions should be attached to an e-mail in a document that has the extension .doc, .docx or .txt. Please, no archaic or oddball extensions like .rtf or .odt. If there's absolutely no way you can produce a .doc, .docx or .txt file, you can paste your submission into the body of your e-mail.
Place your name at the top of the first page of the document. Also, please use a single, common, easy-to-read font for the entirety of the document—no Comic Sans or Lisboa Light. Fancy fonts do not make your submission look cool.
4. Visual Submissions: Photos, illustrations, etc. should be high-quality and in either .jpg, .gif, .png, .bmp or .tif format. Multiple, large files should be sent in multiple e-mails (maximum 10 MB per e-mail).
5. Accepted works will receive minor (or major, when required) editing for spelling, grammar, punctuation, or word use, either to conform with the magazine's standards, or because you've done something that's harming an otherwise promising submission.
6. After submitting, add thebrokencitymag@yahoo.com to your contacts or safe-senders list to ensure that future e-mails from us don't end up in your spam folder.
7. In consideration of the continuance of our sanity, please read these educational essays from Taddle Creek magazine. We agree wholeheartedly with their style mandate: