Call for Submissions: Clockhouse

Guidelines

All submissions must:

Be original, unpublished work written by the author or, if you are submitting artwork for cover consideration, original artwork created by the artist.

Please follow the industry-standard formatting guidelines appropriate for the genre as well as the applicable guidelines below:

• Fiction: Flash Fiction, 750 words or less.

• Short stories and self-contained novel excerpts, 751 - 3,500 words. (Genre fiction will be considered only if it sustains literary merit.)

• Poetry: All poetry in traditional and experimental styles including prose poetry (Up to 250 lines of poetry, total. Only one poem per submission. Poets may submit up to three times per reading period.)

• Memoir and Creative Nonfiction: All memoir and creative nonfiction in traditional and experimental literary styles. No academic or scientific essays (Up to 5,000 words)

• Dramatic Work for Stage or Screen: Short dramatic works in traditional and experimental styles, either a standalone piece or an excerpt from a one-act or full-length play or screenplay (Up to 15 pages)

• Artwork for Cover Consideration: Images should be uploaded in either a jpg or jpeg file format.
  

ADDITIONAL SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Please also:Include a short bio of approximately 100 words or less

Include a brief artist statement: a few sentences about your work as an artist (i.e., not a “pitch” for this submission, but rather a statement about what you’re interested in writing about now, what drives your writing, or how your writing is reflecting or influencing the world at large, etc.)

SUBMISSION DUE DATE:
The submission period for the Summer 2023 volume will be open through December 15, 2022.

More information and submission link here.