Submissions
Guidelines for submission:
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1-5 poems of virtually any length, including prose poems (single or double spaced)
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1 short story or personal essay under 5,000 words or 2 flash fiction/nonfiction pieces under 1,000 words (double spaced)
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Please attach each submission in a separate Word.doc (do not copy and paste your work in the body of the email)
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Name, address, and email (and/or phone number) are necessary on first page of every piece
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Cover letter, including biographical information
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Send submissions to the seems@lakeland.edu
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Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for our reply (if sent via mail)
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We do not read simultaneous submissions
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We do not read handwritten submissions
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Contributors are to provide work accepted and biographical notes electronically as Word.doc attachments
Notes to consider:
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Usually, we take six months to respond, but sometimes it's longer, especially if we have interest in all or any of the work submitted
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Payment is through a copy of the issue in which a contributor's work appears
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Response time is longer in the summer because we do not read from May-August
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Publication of accepted manuscripts rarely occurs in less than a year
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In the past, we've accepted less than 2% of submissions
