Call for Submissions: SEEMS

Guidelines for submission:

• 1-5 poems of virtually any length, including prose poems (single or double spaced)

• 1 short story under 5,000 words or 2 flash fiction pieces under 1,000 words (double spaced)

• 1 personal essay under 5,000 words or 2 mirco essays under 1,000 words (double spaced)

• Please attach each submission in a separate Word.doc (do not copy and paste your work in the body of the email)

• Name, address, and email (and/or phone number) are necessary on first page of every piece

• Cover letter, including biographical information

Send submissions to:

seems@lakeland.edu 

or to the address provided on the CONTACT page

Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for our reply (if sent via mail)

Continuous deadline, meaning we read year-round

We do not read simultaneous submissions

Contributors are to provide work accepted and biographical notes electronically as Word.doc attachments

Notes to consider:

• 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

• Payment is through a copy of the issue in which a contributor's work appears

• Response time is longer in the summer

• Publication of accepted manuscripts rarely occurs in less than a year

• In the past, we've accepted less than 2% of submissions

• Contributors may purchase additional copies at 75% of the cover price 

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