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Issue 6 Submission Guidelines
The Broken City is currently accepting submissions for its summer 2010 edition: Still Life, Fast Moving. In this issue, we’ll be examining the collision of nature and infrastructure in a knock-down, drag-out detonation of concrete and plant life.
California band Grandaddy sang about “mud and metal mixing good” in “Broken Household Appliance National Forest.” More often than not, nature and progress are at odds with one another, but once in a while, cities and the environment do come together in a weird symbiosis.
Do you have a secret plan to erect a fort in the woods and fill it with modern conveniences? Is there a rusting dryer on your front lawn that’s more a piece of artwork than garbage? Are you imagining a short story about a race of mole men that live in the sewer beneath your apartment building? Surely, you have some poetry about a flower!
We want to see work that’s about cities, nature, or the amalgamation of the two. Please send your poetry, fiction, non-fiction, comics, art, photography, music/book reviews to thebrokencitymag@yahoo.com.
Deadline is: June 30, 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.
3. There are no specific length requirements for written submissions, but we tend to recoil when presented with something longer than 5,000 words. Submissions can be pasted into an e-mail or, preferably, attached in a document that has the extension .doc, .docx, .rtf or .txt. Photos/illustrations should be high-quality and in either .jpg, .gif, .bmp or .tif format.
4. Accepted works will receive minor 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 wonderful submission.
5. 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.
6. In consideration of the continuance of our sanity, please read these educational essays from Taddle Creek magazine. We agree wholeheartedly with their style mandate: