23 October, 2003
Final deadline for submissions for the Showcase of Tasmanian poetry
- Tasmanian
poets are invited to submit poetry
to the editor for publication in
vol.7, Showcase of Tasmanian Poetry
- Submissions must be made before 30 November 2003.
This deadline has been extended many times and the invitation has been
open for over a year now. Anyone who has not yet sent work in to the Showcase
must please do so by the deadline. This will enable work to be edited
and
put online during the Christmas holidays.
- When doing so, it is important to the editor that
you please follow the guidelines below.
Guidelines
Only submissions that adhere to the guidelines below will be considered.
- Poems only, no haiku.
- The poem(s) submitted must be the work of a poet currently resident in
Tasmania.
- The material submitted must be freely available for online publication
- Previously published material may be submitted.
- Submissions must be made in the format requested below in sections (a)
and (b).
(a) How to present your submission:
Please adhere to these specifications
for your submission: the
editor
depends on writers cooperating with these guidelines in order to ensure accuracy
in The Write Stuff:
- Poems must be sent in the body of an email message to: Anne.Kellas@the-write-stuff.com.au
- No attachments: please do not send poems as attachments.
Poems sent as attachments will not be regarded as valid submissions.
Attachments
are not acceptable due to:
a)
virus concerns; and
b)
Thanks
to
our
friend
Mr Gates, WORD documents are not created equal. WORD documents end up different
on different machines. Yes even if sent as rtf's and even if you and I have
up-to-date software/hardware etc.
- Your email message subject line must please contain specifics
like your name or some unique keywords about your work (and not just words
like "submission"
or "my poems" or "For the Write Stuff")
- Please give a variety of contact details (phone number
and postal address) in your email message in case email services fail us.
- Please state if poems have been previously published elsewhere,
e.g. in a print journal.
It will be assumed by The Write Stuff that you have taken due care to
clear rights
for
any material
submitted for the showcase which is previously published.
(b) If your submission were to be successful:
Hard copy
of your poems sent via snail mail at your own expense will be required.
This is necessary as most poems contain visual clues about special
formatting or
layout that is not transmited via email (e.g. paragraph or line
indentations, italics, bold text, special characters, diacritic marks etc.
It is also necessary
as the editor may not be in possession of hard copy of your published
books/chapbooks or journals in which your work has appeard.
Poets included on the showcase are asked to submit:
- a brief bio (150 words max.);
- brief citations (including URLs) for magazines or web sites featuring
your work/reviews;
- a photo (not larger than 50 kb) and the year and name of photographer,
the photo being either of the poet or a book.
Please note that
- The Write Stuff
regrets it is not able to pay poets for contributions at
this stage.
Hopefully,
having work showcased online will go some way towards
rewarding poets accepted for the showcase.
- Accepted work appears online and is then is archived for the life
of the magazine. If you want your
work removed from the archives, let the poetry
editor know immediately your work will be
taken
offline.
- Indexing: The Write Stuff is archived periodically by
the National Library of Australia's Pandora Project and is indexed by major
search engines. The Write Stuff employs Dublin Core metadata
to ensure its content
is found accurately by web
search engines and web searchers alike.
- Errors: The Write Stuff relies on the showcased poets
to report any errors in formatting or presentation in a timely fashion
and will endeavour to make
corrections as soon as is possible.
- The Write Stuff reserves the right to remove material
from the showcase at its own discretion without notice.
Contact details:
Postal address: Anne Kellas, poetry editor,
The Write Stuff,
PO Box 368,
North Hobart Tasmania 7002
Email: Anne.Kellas@the-write-stuff.com.au
An edited version of this page appears in the print journal, Famous
Reporter, n.26, December 2002, p.40.
URL for this page: http://www.the-write-stuff.com.au/poetry/tasmania/2003-guidelines/index.html
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