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Call For Submissions
Winter 2008 issue
Must be received by September 1, 2008Theme:
To be announced.
We accept poetry, photography, fiction, and essay.
Be very sure to read the guidelines below before submitting.Word Submissions
No email word submissions please.
The journal accepts poetry, essay and short story. Please have a look about the website to see what we are about so you can determine if your writing is suitable. Some details:
- Poetry: You may submit a maximum of 10 poems.
- Fiction: Submit a maximum of 2 stories. Maximum 5000 words each or you can submit up to 5 "extra short" stories, maximum 500 words each.
- Essay: maximum 5000 words.
- Combinations: Yes, you can send some poetry and short story but please limit the total number of pages to approximately 13. This means you might send one short story of 2500 words (about 10 pages) and 3 poems
- Please use 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper, one side only. Poetry may be single-spaced; fiction, essays etc. should be double spaced. No hand written pieces please.
- We accept entries written in English from anywhere in the world.
- Type your name, full address and email address on the title page along with the titles of the pieces. On subsequent pages, type your last name and the title of the piece.
- Number every page of a poem or each story/essay.
- Include an artist statement/bio with your work
- Please note: Due to the overwhelming number of submissions and the short time we have to work in, we will only be able to respond to submissions that have been accepted for publication. If you have not heard from us within a month after the submission deadline, your submission has not been accepted.
- Save money. Save paper. Don't send a SASE - if we can't use your work, we'll recycle it.
Image Submissions
You can email image submissions, please see the directions below.
Currently, the journal is accepting black and white photography for the interior and color photography for the cover. Please have a look about the website to see what we are about so you can determine if your photography is suitable. You can submit up to 10 samples via email, from anywhere in the world, in small jpeg file size. If we want to use your work you'll ask you to send us a hard copy, either actual photographs or larger Tiff files on disc. To email your photos click here and state "image submission" in the subject line. Please include your name, contact information, a short explanation of the work you are submitting and a short bio.
Another way to submit: click here to learn about Editor's Choice
Deadlines:
Toward the Light Journal publishes twice a year - summer and winter. Deadlines for submitting your work: March 1st and September 1st. For contest submissions please check the contest page.
If the contributor does not have a current subscription they will be paid in three copies of the issue their work appears in plus one copy of the next issue.
If the contributor does have a current subscription they will be paid in three copies of the issue their work appears in - therefore, including their subscription copy they will receive four copies of the issue their work appears in.
Copyright
Copyright remains with the author/artist.
Send it out
Send your words or images to:
Toward The Light
Suite 180, 171 – 5005 Dalhousie Drive NW
Calgary, AB
T3A 5R8You can also send images via email but please no word submissions by email.
Please note: Due to the overwhelming number of submissions and the short time we have to work in, we will only be able to respond to submissions that have been accepted for publication. If you have not heard from us within a month after the submission deadline, your submission has not been accepted.
Questions? Get your answers by email.
Another way to submit: click here to learn about Editor's Choice