Call for submissions - itch Magazine, South-Africa
Deadline: September 7, 2008
Submissions:
Let's face it – themes are kind of "done". Not all that exciting any more. But they do serve a purpose in terms of organising submissions and inviting more focussed contemplation. So, the online ITCH magazines will be themed... but in an abstract way. Our themes are drawn from the things that we use every day: punctuation symbols. Yep, we know it's a little "left-field", but we think it might be fun. If it doesn't really work out, we can always change our minds later.
The theme for the second issue is: *
What does this mean? You tell us. You can interpret this in any way that you wish, visually or textually. We want our themes to be provocative rather than prescriptive.
Online Submission Guidelines:
Don't send work that has been published or submitted elsewhere. We rely on contributor's good faith in this respect, but should we discover that a published piece has appeared elsewhere, we reserve the right to remove it.
Text submissions:
No longer than 2500 words. (We know the web is unlimited, but most web-readers attention spans are not!)
Please submit in an unformatted Word document.
Any form of poetry, prose, fiction or non-fictional, creative or journalistic, public or private writing is welcome.
An accompanying illustration may be submitted. Must be in JPG format, and no larger than 1MB.
Audio files are welcome (recordings of your poetry, prose, song lyrics or opinions).
Book reviews welcome. Please keep them to about 500 words and include full details of the book you are reviewing (author, publication date, publisher, etc.)
Visual submissions:
Anything from 1 – 8 images. If you are submitting more than one image, please ensure that they are part of some kind of series (i.e. no arbitrary collection of portfolio shots).
Must be in JPG format, and no larger than 1MB per image.
Must be accompanied by a title (even if untitled), year of production, and a very short abstract/explanation.
Multimedia files welcome (animations, short films, etc)
Submissions for the cover image are welcome. Please follow the format that you see on the home page. If you don't make it on to the cover the work will still be considered for a feature.
All submissions:
Must include name, e-mail and telephone number of contributor, and a short biography.
Feel free to include a link to your webpage.
Submit all work via e-mail to the ITCH editor.
Further information
http://www.itch.co.za/submissions/
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