Serving House Journal: Submission Guidelines

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Serving House Journal:
Submission Guidelines

Special Call for Submissions: In addition to our regular submissions, we need tributes for Kowit’s Korner: poems, prose poems, essays, anecdotes, etc. Photographs may be considered as well. For examples of tributes, please see our Steve Kowit Memorial Edition.
SHJ-17 Reading Period: 1 July 2017–31 August 2017
We accept submissions by email only; please submit Word documents as email attachments to servinghousejournal [at] gmail [dot] com — and for poetry submissions only, effective 27 July thru 31 August 2017, please submit Word documents as email attachments to SHJWebmaster [at] gmail [dot] com * NOTE: Our editors are way busy—just like you!— so we trust you’ll understand we may not read submissions which do not meet these guidelines.
Reading Periods:	Spring Issues: 1 January–28 February Fall Issues: 1 July–31 August
Launch Dates:	Spring issues: 1 May Fall issues: 1 November
Fiction:	Up to 5,000 words
Flash Fiction:	Up to 1,500 words
Micro-Essays:	Up to 500 words
Nonfiction (CNF, biography, essays, interviews, memoirs, reviews):	Up to 5,000 words
Poetry:	Up to 5 poems From 27 July thru 31 August 2017, please submit up to five poems in a single Word document as an email attachment to: SHJWebmaster [at] gmail [dot] com
Translations (we consider literary works of any genre):	Up to 5,000 words
Visual Arts:	Up to five (5) jpegs, 200 DPI, 400–500 pixels wide Please feel free to send links to your portfolios and galleries as well. During Spring and Fall reading periods as listed above, please email, as separate attachments, no more than five jpeg files to: SHJWebmaster [at] gmail [dot] com
Reprints:	Will be considered. Please be sure to include name of venue and date of the work’s previous publication, so we can give proper credit. Thank you! We also need these details when we nominate works for the Best of the Net Anthology, the Pushcart Prize, and other competitions with specific requirements about publication dates.
Simultaneous Submissions:	Yes, but please let us know right away if your piece has been accepted elsewhere.
Payment:	Non-paying
Response Time:	Up to 6 months

Please read Serving House Journal to decide whether your work would be a good fit. You’ll find our mission described on the home page.
Our editors prefer to read submissions as Word documents in Verdana font, size 11. If you cannot use Verdana, then a sans-serif font will be easiest to review onscreen and will be most appreciated. For publication, all submissions will be reformatted as necessary to follow house style of “Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif.”
Double-space all prose submissions (stories, essays, interviews, etc.), and number your pages sequentially.
Single-space poetry, and set poems (line breaks, etc.) as you would want them to appear on a printed page.
Be sure to include your name and e-mail address on page one of your manuscript so that we can contact you. Bonus points for also including the genre below the title of your work.
Author Bio: Please include at the end of your manuscript a brief bio (up to 175 words) written in third person. Book and journal titles should appear in italics or be underlined—please do NOT type them in all caps. Our webmaster has plenty to do already, and would like to avoid retyping titles. Thanks so much for your understanding!
We accept submissions by email only; please submit works as email attachments to servinghousejournal [at] gmail [dot] com — and for poetry submissions only, effective 27 July thru 31 August 2017, please submit Word documents as email attachments to SHJWebmaster [at] gmail [dot] com
Thank you! We look forward to reading your work.

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