Submissions
Call for Submissions: illiterature. issue 10. a Collaborative Asemic novella.
For the 10th issue of illiterature. we’re seeking work that is without the smallest unit of meaning.
We’re hoping to create a cohesive, yet varied collection of asemic work that can be seen as a collaborative novella. Will each author’s work be considered a chapter? Will an author’s work be scattered throughout the book? How will an asemic chapter differ from a stand-alone asemic poem? Will it differ? Does it need to? Will asemic comic strips fit in the collection? What, if anything will hold the collection together? These are only a few of the questions we’re asking ourselves right now. We’re eager to find out some answers!
We are open to submissions of all types of work, asemic poems, collages, comics, asemic prose… we especially encourage submissions that are hard to place elsewhere, be it concrete, visual, conceptual, or minimal.
Please note: illiterature. is a journal of collaboration. We’re not sure what’ll happen yet, but we ask that contributors be open to having their work played with in new and unexpected ways. If you’re dead-set on your work appearing in a certain way, this may not be the journal for you. Please familiarize yourself with our work. Check out issues 3-6 to see what kind of work we publish and how we publish that work.
Issue Five, a collaborative graphic novel, can be viewed in its entirety here:
https://monoskop.org/images/9/92/Illiterature_5_The_Graphic_Novel_2015.pdf
Submissions Guidelines
Published size of the book will be 5.5 x 8.5 inches. We’re hoping to have the journal perfect-bound, with full bleeds.
All printing will be in black and white.
Send up to 10 pieces as Word Documents or high-res .jpegs, preferably 300dpi or higher.
Attach a bio (of no more than 50 words) in a separate Word Document. This document should also include contact info (name/mailing address).
To help keep emails organized in the subject line please write your name and illiterature. issue 10 submission.
email submissions and/or questions to: editor@puddlesofskypress.com
Deadline: April 15th 2024
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know immediately if your work is picked up somewhere else. We’ll let you know by May 15th if your work has been accepted.
Publication is planned for June 2024.
Compensation is one copy of the journal.
We’re hoping to create a cohesive, yet varied collection of asemic work that can be seen as a collaborative novella. Will each author’s work be considered a chapter? Will an author’s work be scattered throughout the book? How will an asemic chapter differ from a stand-alone asemic poem? Will it differ? Does it need to? Will asemic comic strips fit in the collection? What, if anything will hold the collection together? These are only a few of the questions we’re asking ourselves right now. We’re eager to find out some answers!
We are open to submissions of all types of work, asemic poems, collages, comics, asemic prose… we especially encourage submissions that are hard to place elsewhere, be it concrete, visual, conceptual, or minimal.
Please note: illiterature. is a journal of collaboration. We’re not sure what’ll happen yet, but we ask that contributors be open to having their work played with in new and unexpected ways. If you’re dead-set on your work appearing in a certain way, this may not be the journal for you. Please familiarize yourself with our work. Check out issues 3-6 to see what kind of work we publish and how we publish that work.
Issue Five, a collaborative graphic novel, can be viewed in its entirety here:
https://monoskop.org/images/9/92/Illiterature_5_The_Graphic_Novel_2015.pdf
Submissions Guidelines
Published size of the book will be 5.5 x 8.5 inches. We’re hoping to have the journal perfect-bound, with full bleeds.
All printing will be in black and white.
Send up to 10 pieces as Word Documents or high-res .jpegs, preferably 300dpi or higher.
Attach a bio (of no more than 50 words) in a separate Word Document. This document should also include contact info (name/mailing address).
To help keep emails organized in the subject line please write your name and illiterature. issue 10 submission.
email submissions and/or questions to: editor@puddlesofskypress.com
Deadline: April 15th 2024
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know immediately if your work is picked up somewhere else. We’ll let you know by May 15th if your work has been accepted.
Publication is planned for June 2024.
Compensation is one copy of the journal.
STUMPT: an open call for submissions
STUMPT is a rubber-stamped journal of tiny poems. We're a few issues in and we're excited to see what will come next. Because each issue is printed on off-cut and loose end papers each issue is going to be quite different from what came before. Pick up the first three issues to see what we mean. The poems might be printed on recycled envelopes or printed on fine card stock or housed in a tiny envelope.
Please send up to 5 poems for consideration. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, as we have a tendency to sit on poems for a while, only publishing them when the time seems right. We might need to wait for other poems that work with yours come in. We've been known to sit on a poem for a year or longer. so please be patient.
Poems of five lines or under are preferred, but we'll consider longer pieces. Try to keep the lines short too, our printing platens have limited space!
email submissions in WORD or PDF to editor@puddlesofskypress.com with your name and 'STUMPT submission' in the subject line.
Thank you!
You can purchase all three issues for $9.00 + shipping below.
Please send up to 5 poems for consideration. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, as we have a tendency to sit on poems for a while, only publishing them when the time seems right. We might need to wait for other poems that work with yours come in. We've been known to sit on a poem for a year or longer. so please be patient.
Poems of five lines or under are preferred, but we'll consider longer pieces. Try to keep the lines short too, our printing platens have limited space!
email submissions in WORD or PDF to editor@puddlesofskypress.com with your name and 'STUMPT submission' in the subject line.
Thank you!
You can purchase all three issues for $9.00 + shipping below.
OFF CUTS & LOOSE ENDS
Currently the only submissions we're taking are for our project 'Off-Cuts and Loose-Ends' . We’re planning on producing a variety of publications from tiny chapbooks to postcards to bookmarks to broadsides or pamphlets.
Due to the size of some of these off-cuts, they won’t fit through our printers, meaning we’ll be hand-stamping and typewriting many of these publications. For this reason we’re going to mainly focus on minimalist poetry.
Think 'Haiku' but not the 5-7-5 variety (unless you're doing something wildly different from traditional haiku).
Think 'One-Word Poems' but try not to be too clever! We want one-word poems we can contemplate like haiku, or read in many different ways.
Think 'Minimalist Poems'. Have you read Nelson Ball, jwcurry, Lorraine Niedecker? We want short poems that expand the mind. Concise imagery. Pared-down verse. What's the most you can you say with the least words possible?
There's also a chance we might want to publish a little journal of hand-stamped poetry. We're waiting to see happens, and making it up as we go, so please have some flexibility.
Because of the nature of this project, each publication will be printed in a different print run… anywhere from 15-100 copies. For each publication the author will receive approximately 15%-25% of the print run.
If you’re interested in submitting here are a few guidelines.
- For unsolicited submissions let us know why you think your work will fit with this project. Have you had your work published by Puddles of Sky Press before? Have you read any of our publications, or know the work of authors we’ve published?
- Please send up to 5 poems at a time. If we like what we read we’ll ask for more.
- In your email’s subject line please write: “Off Cuts & Loose Ends – "your name’”
- Allow 2-4 weeks for a response. If you haven’t heard from us in a month, feel free to follow up.
- Send submissions to editor@puddlesofskypress.com