submission guidelines :

Call for Submissions: The Freud Issue.

Open reading period: February 1st - April 30th

Please follow all submission guidelines carefully!

Blossombones is seeking submissions of poetry, short fiction and critical prose that represent a feminist or woman-centered response to the work of Sigmund Freud, with particular emphasis on alternative models of the psychoanalytic process posed by women.

We ask that women only submit for this issue.

We only accept electronic submissions at this time.

The Freud issue wil be guest-edited by Kristina Marie Darling.

Kristina Marie Darling is a graduate of Washington University. She's the author of several chapbooks, including Fevers and Clocks (March Street Press, 2006), The Traffic in Women (Dancing Girl Press, 2006), and Night Music (Blaze Vox Books, 2008). A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her writing appears or is forthcoming in issues of The Gettysburg Review, The Boston Review, Shenandoah, The Colorado Review, and other periodicals. Awards include residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Prairie Center of the Arts, as well as a scholarship from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers' annual poetry conference. Her website is KristinaMarieDarling.blogspot.com

Please submit all work and queries regarding this specific issue of blossombones to KristinaMarieDarling@yahoo.com

All other general queries regarding the journal may be sent to editor Susan Slaviero: susan.blossombones@gmail.com

Our general guidelines still apply: simultaneous submissions are fine, no multiple subs during a single reading period, and please query our guest editor if you're considering sending a longer piece. We expect a few longer pieces will be published in this issue, as we're interested in critical as well as creative work.

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We ask that writers submit only once per reading period, unless specifically invited to send more work.

We accept attachments in the form of MS Word / .doc files. If you choose to send an attachment, please put all poems in ONE document and label with your name and the genre (see below). If you prefer, you can also paste your work into the body of the email.

Make our lives easier by including your last name and the genre to which you are submitting within the subject line of the email (i.e. Culbertson: Fiction Submission). Please include a brief cover letter that includes previous publications, how you heard about blossombones, and something interesting about yourself (don't worry, nothing fancy). Contact information must be included within the email, including first and last name, address, and email address. We accept simultaneous submissions, but only if mentioned in your cover letter and only if we are notified as soon as possible if your work is accepted elsewhere. We do not accept previously published work unless solicited. You may submit to multiple genres during a single reading period; however, we do ask that you only send one submission per genre during a single reading period. It gets awfully confusing otherwise, folks!

POETRY: 3-6 poems, any length.

HYBRID: 1-3 hybrid pieces, with a limit of 750 words apiece. Please query the editor for longer work.

PROSE: 1-2 prose submissions--fiction or creative non-fiction--with a limit of 1500 words apiece. Please query the editor for longer work.

For more information regarding our editorial tastes, read this.

Response time varies, but expect a response from us within three or four months, at most. If you do not receive a response after four months, please send us an email with your contact information and the titles of the work submitted. Rights revert back to the author upon publication. We ask that blossombones be given acknowledgement if a piece that appeared on our site is published in another work.

A NOTE ABOUT OUR WORD LIMITS: While we've posted some limits we'd like writers to follow as a general rule, please feel free to query about sending longer pieces...we're pretty open minded about submissions and will consider publishing work outside these guidelines if it happens to fit our theme and aesthetic.