The Petigru Review ‒ 2013 Submission Guidelines
The Petigru Review-2013 will feature the best writing of SCWW members in three categories: fiction (including flash fiction), creative nonfiction and poetry. Submissions may be sent between March 1, 2013, and April 30, 2013.
The judged competition is open to SCWW members who have paid their dues by April 30, 2013. There is no other entry fee. Please contact Jim McFarlane, Membership Chair, at scwwmembership@gmail.com if you have any questions about your membership status. New members are always welcome. If you wish to submit your work and are not a member, contact scwwmembership@gmail.com and pay dues.
Each member may submit up to 3000 words of fiction, (a single story cannot be longer than 2500 words), and/or up to 2000 words of nonfiction, and/or 80 lines of poetry. Each member is free to divide up the total word- or line-count in each category among multiple submissions, so long as these length limits are observed when all submissions are added together. Submissions that exceed the length limit in any category or in total will be disqualified.
For example, a member might submit two short stories of 1,500 words each, four nonfiction pieces of 500 words each, and eight 10-line poems. But if that same member exceeded the word count in a category or the poetry line-count, all of his or her submissions would be disqualified.
With the exception of work previously published in The Quill, only unpublished work is eligible. Simultaneous submissions are permitted as long as the author immediately notifies the editor of The Petigru Review when a piece has been accepted elsewhere.
Authors whose work is selected for publication in The Petigru Review-2013 will receive two contributor’s copies. SCWW retains first-time publication rights until the literary anthology is published, at which time publication rights revert to the author. SCWW also solicits authors’ non-exclusive first Internet archival rights for online archiving and e-reader publishing rights.
SCWW reserves the right to edit submissions at the editor’s sole discretion.
Tips: Submit your best efforts. Good writing will get the judges’ attention. Judges will consider each submission on its merit, not compared to other submissions. Judges look for a manuscript that rises above the mundane, that presents the author’s truth in an evocative manner and shows the human experience. Grab the reader with your first sentence. Take chances and think beyond the literal and build a world that invites the reader into the story or poem.
Proofreading is important.
Manuscript Formatting:
- No paper copies will be accepted. Only electronic submissions are allowed.
- All prose submissions must be formatted as a standard manuscript. Use only 12 point Times New Roman font and double spacing between lines. Leave one space after periods. Do not use sections, frames, lines, fancy fonts or other styles or formatting. Use Italics instead of underlining.
- Poetry should be spaced and formatted as the poet wishes it to appear in print, including the use of spacing and special characters and fonts.
- The title and page number must appear in a header on every page of a submission. The header should have the title left, page number on far right.
- The author’s name must not appear anywhere on the manuscript(s), including in the body of the work.
- Each submission package must include one cover sheet listing all submissions that may be downloaded here.
- Send a copy of each manuscript as a Microsoft Word attachment (with a “.doc” or “.docx” suffix) to scwwanthology@gmail.com. Subject line should say TPR 2013. You may attach multiple submissions to a single email.
- In the body of the email include an author biography of up to 100 words. Please attach a high resolution color or black and white photo of yourself, preferably a head shot. If you have a good photo that isn’t a head shot, I can crop it.
All emails with attachments must be sent between March 1, 2013 and April 30, 2013.
Submissions that do not adhere to the guidelines will be disqualified and the entrant notified.
Photographers:
SCWW also seeks digital images for inclusion in The Petigru Review. Photos may be taken anywhere in the world.
Photos may be submitted only during April: April 1 through April 30, 2013. Color photos are preferred. Black and white photos are certainly accepted.
The editor looks for artistic images and photos of original art work: drawings, paintings, sculpture, or other media. If the subject of the photo is not the photographer’s, the artist must supply a release form available via email from the editor. Art work on public display is usually exempt from this release as long as the work is part of a composition. Limit of 10 photos per individual. The editor reserves the right to solicit additional photos.
Read the latest QUILL for some specific suggestions for photo topics.
Submit color/black-and-white photos only as attachments to an email. Include in the subject line TPR 2013 Photo and send to scwwanthology@gmail.com. Photos must be high resolution JPG files, portrait or landscape orientation. Hi-res photos are usually larger than 1 megabyte and can be as high as 10-20 megabytes. Submit only one to three photos per email as most Internet service providers have limits on attachment sizes. Digital images of original drawings such as flourishes, line drawings, etc., may also be submitted.
Photos of people whose faces are identifiable will be accepted, providing a model release is obtained for each individual in the picture. If a model release is required the editor will supply one.
The editor reserves the right to crop photos/images for content. Each photographer will receive a proof copy of his/her submission/s before publication.
Photo submissions are considered separate from the writing competition and will be used on a discretionary basis. No compensation will be paid for photos, except the photographer/artist whose work is chosen for the cover art will receive two contributor’s copies of the issue in which his/her work appears. Photos used will be credited, and photographers/artists will have short bios.
For accepted photos SCWW acquires one time rights, non-exclusive first Internet archival rights and first e-reader rights. Upon publication all other rights revert to the photographer.
Please submit photos as JPG attachments to: scwwanthology@gmail.com.
Congratulations to these Pushcart nominees for their work in 2012 TPR !
Mary Beth Gibson: Novel Excerpt “Aroon”
Jim Saine: Fiction “A Week at the Beach”
S. Jane Gari: Nonfiction “The Dollhouse”
Torie Amarie Dale: Nonfiction “Fairy Tales of a Fragile Mind”
Lauren Allen: Poetry “Corduroy Road”
Michael Hugh Lythgoe: Poetry “With St Augustine & Mark Rothko at Brickyard Pond”
2012 Petigru Review is on sale at http://tinyurl.com/a2fx9bc. The text-only Kindle version may be purchased at http://tinyurl.com/c4ckrdv.
2011 Petigru Review now on sale. Limited quantities available–limit 3 per person
1 copy $10
2 copies 15
3 copies 20
