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S u b m i s s i o n s
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The eclectic tastes of the editors of Blood Lotus welcome submissions from both established and emerging writers. Writing on all subjects will be considered so long as it is not blatantly offensive.
Poets: send 3-5 poems of free or formal verse.
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction writers: send up to 20 pages.
Artists: send original scanned art, photography, graphic art, etc. in jpg. form.
Submissions are accepted via email only. No attachments. All writing should be pasted into the body of the email; if you send emails with attachments, you risk your submission being discarded, so please adhere to the copy/paste rule. If you are concerned about your line breaks, please denote them with a slash (/). Tell us about yourself in a brief cover letter. Since we’re receiving so many wonderful submissions from all of you, effective 10/14/07, please direct your submissions to the appropriate email address for your genre: bloodlotuspoetry@gmail.com, bloodlotusfiction@gmail.com, or bloodlotusnonfiction@gmail.com. If you’ve sent a submission to bloodlotusjournal@gmail.com, we’ve received it, so don’t worry. Artists may continue to send jpg attachments to the journal email. If you must query, please do so at the email address to which you sent your original submission—help us to keep your submissions and queries organized so we can respond to you as quickly as possible.
A few notes on submissions:
We are not likely to publish you in more than one issue. If you are a previous Blood Lotus contributor, be assured that we like your work, but please respect our editorial wishes to promote a variety of writers by waiting a significant amount of time (like, a year, preferably longer) before sending us more work (which, chances are, will have to be extra excellent to be accepted).
Please submit only once per reading period. In other words, if you haven’t heard back from us yet regarding your first submission, hold off on sending the second one to avoid confusion.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted but only if noted in the initial email and only if the author agrees to notify us immediately if the piece is accepted elsewhere. Previously published work, however, will not be accepted.
A few notes on querying:
Please wait three months before querying, and please designate Query in the subject line of your email and give us the date of your original submission. Responding to queries sometimes takes some time, so please be patient. We unfortunately cannot offer compensation outside the realm of publicity at this time, but we promise to present and promote your work with the professionalism it deserves! Starting in 2008, Blood Lotus editors will be nominating selected contributors for the annual Pushcart Prize.
Blood Lotus acquires first time North American rights upon publication, as well as the right to archive your work online.
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