Call for Submissions on the Theme of "Love": The Avenue

The Avenue 

Theme

The theme for the next edition of The Avenue will be Love. What’s not to love about love? Love stinks, love makes the world go round, love is everywhere, love is the drug. We want to see what you have done with the topic and how you have interpreted it in your work.

Reading Period

Submissions will close on September 1st. We look forward to reading both prose and poetry, just keep in mind we print in Black and White.

 

Simultaneous vs. Multiple Submissions

Simultaneous submissions to other journals are fine as long as they are identified as such and we are notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. Multiple genres within one submission is okay, so long as the submission abides to the 5,000 word limit, described below. Please note: within multiple genre submissions, the editors reserve the right to publish one genre over another.

 

Manuscript Guidelines

• Double-spaced (poetry may be single-spaced) pages in either Word or PDF.

• Numbered pages.

• Please use the following format for your submission: last name_title

• Fiction and nonfiction: No more than 5,000 words. Excerpts of longer works are welcome if self-contained.

• Poetry: Submit up to three poems in separate documents.

Carefully copy-edit and proof your work. We’re not against a typo or two, or even an occasion of their/they’re/there. However, do the courtesy of proofing your work. We’re a small staff and copy-editing should be done as much as possible prior to submission.

 

Please be thematically sound. We have a theme and we want you to relate to it in some way. We want it to be inventive and creative, but it can’t be tenuous.

 

Please strive to be inoffensive. We’re not against harsh language, sexuality, a depiction of the real world or offensive subject matter, but there has to be a context.

Unsolicited criticism is not considered.

 

Restrictions

We do not reprint previously published work.

 

Submitting

To submit follow this link: Submissions 

 

Notifications and Queries

Early submissions will be responded to faster than later ones. Feel free to query after one month has passed.

 

Fees

There is a $5 submission fee. If you would like a waiver please feel free to make a request.