Submissions

So You Want to Submit a Manuscript?
Fantastic! Please do.

We are currently accepting submissions for PicFic and unFold.  Accepted manuscripts will be published first on Twitter, then combined in a collection that will be released as an e-book.  If your manuscript is chosen as a “3 Cheers” winner, it will also be released as a YouTube video.  By submitting your work, you are agreeing to grant us non-exclusive electronic rights to publish your manuscript in these three formats that may be archived indefinitely. We do not pay royalties at this time, but we do donate net proceeds to Doctors Without Borders. You should only consider submitting to us if your goals are experience and exposure. If you are trying to make a living with your art, please check out the many reputable paying markets listed on Duotrope.

PicFic
Picofiction for today’s mobile electronics.

• Editor: J.S. Graustein
• Reading Period: year round
• Issue Close Date: 31 December of each year
• Publication Date: e-book collection will be released 15 February of each year, one story will be released as a PicFicTwitter update on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Serial Saturdays
• Number of Stories Needed: 104 per year + a few serials
• Number of Stories per Submission: up to 8 single day stories or a serial story with no more than 8 episodes.  Please limit your submissions to one batch per calendar month
• Simultaneous Submissions: no
• Previously Published Submissions: no

PicFic is an experimental journal that boils the essence of short stories down so that they can fit in a mobile phone text message. Even though the official definition of picofiction is a complete story told in 140 characters or less, we are interested in pushing the boundary a bit. We will accept a series of stories that tells one large story (much like TV episodes), as long as each unit is a complete story within itself.

Ultimately, we want digestible stories written in present tense that mobile phone users will enjoy to the point of forwarding. Submissions should be sent in the body of an email to picfic@foldedword.com with “submission” in the subject line. Please be sure to use your word processor’s word count tool to check your character count. We cannot accept submissions over 140 characters per episode.  Be sure to include your name & pen name plus a link to your bio in your email.

unFold
poetry for today’s mobile electronics

unFold, the successor to Form. Reborn on Folded Word, is a PG-rated experimental poetry journal that seeks inspired 140 character (including spaces) Tweets, suitable for mobile poem text messages.  unFold seeks to develop Form140, and invites those submitting to improvise solutions to Twitter’s inhospitability to traditional line breaks, as described at Form21.  Ultimately, we want digestible poems written in present tense that mobile phone users will enjoy to the point of forwarding.

• Editor: Rose Auslander
• Reading Period: year round
• First Issue Close Date: 31 December, 2010
• Publication Date: e-book poetry collection will be released each year, one Tweet will be released as an unFold Twitter update each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
• Number of Poems Needed: a total of 150 Tweets per year, some of which may be parts of serial poems
• Maximum Number of Poems per Submission: either 6 single day poems, or serial poems that total no more than 6 episodes.  Please limit your submissions to one batch per calendar month
• Simultaneous Submissions: no
• Previously Published Submissions: no

Submissions should be sent in the body of an email to poetry@foldedword.com with “submission” in the subject line. Please be sure to use your word processor’s word count tool to check your character count. We cannot accept submissions over 140 characters (including spaces/line breaks) per episode. Be sure to include your name & pen name plus a link to your bio in your email.

Heron
Print/MP3 fusion project

We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts for Heron. All manuscripts will be solicited from Regular Contributors to Form.Reborn/unFold and PicFic that have demonstrated:

• flexibility & openness to editorial suggestions
• passion for our Twitter-zines & our philosophy
• connection with readers (based on web-stats & comments)

Signature Series Chapbooks
Poetry and Fiction print & e-books

We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts for Signature Series Chapbooks. Contributors to PicFic, Form.Reborn, and unFold are invited to submit via the procedure outlined in our chapbook call.