Submissions are now being accepted for spring vol. 14, the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild’s magazine showcasing emerging Saskatchewan writers. This magazine publishes poetry and short prose (fiction and creative non-fiction).
Writers selected for publication will receive payment at the standard SWG rates, as well as two complimentary copies of spring. Contributors will have the chance to read their work at launches in April 2024.
Criteria:
Those submitting must be:
- Saskatchewan residents who may or may not be members of the SWG
- Emerging writers who have not published their work or had their work accepted for publication in book-length form (64 pages) in either traditional or self-publication formats.
Guidelines:
Please email the following to swgmagazines@gmail.com with spring Submission Volume 14 in the subject line:
- A Cover letter that includes:
- Your name, mailing address, email and phone number
- Declaration that you are a resident of Saskatchewan
- Genre(s) and title(s) of your submission(s)
- A brief (50-75 word) bio that will appear in the magazine should your submission(s) be published.
- To help the SWG support writers of diverse communities and identities, we encourage applicants to self-declare if they identify as a writer who is a member of group(s) experiencing marginalization and underrepresentation (i.e. Black, Indigenous, or Person of Colour, 2SLGBTQ+, or Disability).
- Your submission(s), which meet these guidelines:
- Submissions must be previously unpublished in any format (including online formats)
- Submissions must be your original creative work; writers who submit plagiarized work will be banned from spring.
- Submissions must be in English
- All material must be typed in body-text fonts like Times New Roman, Courier, or Arial
- Font size should be 12 pt
- Pages must include 1" margins
- Pages should be numbered sequentially
- Title and your name should be included in either the header or footer
- Prose should be double-spaced, poetry may be single-spaced
- Prose submissions (fiction and creative non-fiction) are limited to 3,000 words. You may submit more than one prose piece (i.e. flash fiction or essays) but your entire submission must be no more than 3,000 words.
- Poetry submissions may be individual poems, sequences or suites up to six poems totaling no more than 10 pages. Excerpts from longer prose and poetry works will be considered. Please make sure that each new poem starts on a new page.
- Please submit work as a Word document. PDFs, Google Doc links, Pages files, etc., will NOT be accepted.
- You are welcome to submit in both prose and poetry, but contributors will only be published in one genre.
spring’s Managing Editor & Poetry editor is Elena Bentley and spring’s Associate Prose editor is Brandon Fick.
Deadline for submissions is October 30, 2023, at midnight.
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