Call for Submissions: Exacting Clam

Description

Exacting Clam is an online and in print quarterly journal from Sagging Meniscus Press, publishing short fiction, poetry, book, art and music reviews, essays, interviews, and visual art/illustrations.

Guidelines

We accept simultaneous submissions, but do let us know promptly if a submission is accepted elsewhere. Please do not submit anything the whole of which has been previously published, in print or online, including on social media; we do however welcome excerpts of recent or forthcoming books.

Exacting Clam holds first publication rights. Upon publication, all rights revert back to the author(s). Please let us know if your piece becomes part of a collection. We would appreciate citation of first publication.

Work accepted for Exacting Clam will appear in a forthcoming print issue. Some pieces from each issue will also appear online, at the discretion of the editors.

Unfortunately, we cannot currently offer payment.

Bio Guidelines

Please restrict the biographical contributor's note to around 20 – 60 words.

Format Guidelines

For text submissions, please send .docx or .doc format (not PDF)

Book Review Guidelines 

We are open to reviews of both newly published and older, neglected works. The reviews that interest us most are stimulating and thought-provoking in themselves, showing where engagement with the book or books discussed may lead. We will consider both brief, one or two paragraph reviews, and longer, more essay-like articles. For forthcoming or recent books that may still be under promotion by authors or publishers, reviews (unless strongly negative) should be excerptible for such use.

Poetry Guidelines 

If sending us several poems, please restrict the number to half a dozen or so in a single document.

Visual Art Guidelines

Photographs, drawings and other illustrations may be used in conjunction with written works in the online magazine, appropriately credited. Especially since the interior of the print magazine is black and white, not all material used on the website will appear there. The front cover of each print issue will however feature a color illustration.

For the print edition only, we also seek small black-and-white line-drawn decorations.

Please send us a title for each work (save for the decorations). Multiple images can be sent embedded in PDFs or Word documents. 

Submission link.