Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Asian Experience in the American West: Basalt's Call for Submissions

Deadline: March 1, 2010

Basalt's next issue, published in the spring of 2010 will be a special issue, and we invite submissions in any genre, as well as documents and artifacts that record the Asian experience in the American West. We are currently reading for this issue.

All manuscripts should be typed and double-spaced (poetry may be single-spaced) with one inch margins. Please send fiction or non-fiction up to 1500 words (query first if longer), poetry up to five poems or one long poem. For reviews and interviews, please query.

We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know in your cover letter if your submission is being submitted elsewhere, and notify us immediately if it is accepted elsewhere. Reporting time: immediately to 12 weeks (longer if being seriously considered).

(More information HERE.)
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