Monday, July 29, 2024

Three places to send your short prose and poetry (especially travel pieces, but everything else, too)

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Lowestoft Chronicle

Founded in September 2009, Lowestoft Chronicle is an online literary magazine, published quarterly, accepting flash fiction, short stories, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Preference is given to humorous submissions with an emphasis on travel. Lowestoft also publishes an annual anthology of the best work.

Their mission: “To form a global think tank of inquisitive, worldly scribblers, collectively striving towards excellence and, if possible, world domination.”

Fiction: Submit manuscripts of any genre up to 3,000 words for consideration. 

“In contrast to my Humanities schoolteacher, who would place exam papers on a grocery scale and grade according to weight, at Lowestoft Chronicle we always give priority to shorter manuscripts. However, unless it is poetry, bite size submissions under 100 words will probably be considered too slight for our scales and will likely be rejected.”

Poetry: Lowestoft accepts all forms of poetry, but please only submit one or two of your very best poems per reading period.

Nonfiction: Lowestoft welcomes narrative nonfiction, commentary, slice of life, and memoirs. Humorous pieces are especially welcome. Please keep submissions under 3,000 words.

Deadline for next issue: August 15, 2024. After that, check back to see when their next reading period opens. Full submission guidelines here.

TheNashwaak Review

The Nashwaak Review publishes original poetry, short fiction, travel pieces, essays, articles and reviews. The Nashwaak also reproduces photography and paintings in black and white. Their covers are by living Canadian artists and are reproduced in full colour.

Since its founding in 1994, The Nashwaak Review has been a venue for new and established artists, reviewers, and critics throughout Canada. Contributors include such luminaries as the late Louis Dudek, David Adams Richards, Karen Connolly, Fred Cogswell, Stephen Heighton, George Elliot Clarke, Ann Copeland, and Ken Norris.

Perhaps more importantly The Nashwaak has been an outlet for many promising young writers especially, but not exclusively, from Atlantic Canada. They like to claim that they’re slightly different from most small Canadian magazines because of their travel section and because they accept essays and review books from disciplines other than literature.

The Nashwaak Review publishes twice yearly with the financial support of St. Thomas University in Fredricton, New Bruswick.

Submissions:

“Submissions must be sent by hard copy as well as electronically as an attachment.” (That seems to say you submit your piece by both hard copy and by email ~Brian)

All submissions must be accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope.

Mail submissions to:

Stewart Donovan, Editor
The Nashwaak Review
St. Thomas University
Fredericton, NB, Canada
E3B 5G3

And by email at: tnr@stu.ca

Full submission guidelines here.

World Hum

World Hum is a well-established and highly reputable website dedicated to publishing travel stories, videos and slideshows of the highest quality. Since World Hum’s inception in 2001, stories from the site have appeared in “The Best American Travel Writing” anthologies and Travelers’ Tales anthologies, and they have won Lowell Thomas Awards from the Society of American Travel Writers.

World Hum posts several types of features:

Travel Stories are first-person travel narratives.

Speaker’s Corner essays feature rants or raves about any travel-related subject.

Travel Interviews are interviews with travelers, writers, artists – anyone with something interesting to say about travel.

Lists explore a wide range of travel-related topics.

Audio slideshows explore travel through photographs, sound and narration.

Submissions:

If you would like to contribute to any of these sections, please paste your completed essay or article as well as a brief bio into the body of an email – World Hum will not open attachments – and send it to dispatches@worldhum.com

Submissions should be no more than 1,500 words. Do not send multiple submissions, and do not send queries. World Hum reviews only completed posts and essays.

Include the section of the site you want to contribute to in the subject line of your email. If your submission is time sensitive, please say so in the subject line as well.

If your submission is accepted by World Hum, the editors will contact you as soon as possible with more information, including payment details. (I haven’t been able to find how much they pay, but they do pay ~Brian)

Full guidelines here.


See information about upcoming weekly writing classes, one-day workshops, and four-day retreats here.

See many more places to send your short prose and poetry here (and scroll down).

 

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