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LiteraryMary, journal of the beautiful, unusual and eclectic, will be publishing our first ever print issue in January of 2009, in celebration of the second anniversary of our steadily growing website of the same name. We are now accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, and black and white photography. We are also open to experimental pieces that don’t necessarily fall into any of those categories. Rather than ask you to familiarize yourself with our style - an impossible task, given that this will be our inaugural issue – you should keep in mind that although we have plenty of class, we have no style. We intend to publish a myriad of styles, our main concern being that what you submit is written well. We do not believe that good writing needs to be style specific, but it does need to be sincere, honest and absolutely free of grammatical errors, spelling errors and the kind of mistakes professionals just don’t make. Please no previously published work. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but let us know if your work gets accepted somewhere else as soon as possible. Finally, we ask that if your writing has been workshopped over the internet you take it offline when you submit to us. Submit to us. I like the sound of that.

If you are interested, please send up to six of your best pieces of poetry regardless of length and/or up to three pieces of fiction, for a total of no more than 4000 words, as an attachment (using either .doc, .rtf, or .wpd file extensions) to lmsubmissions@gmail.com. Experimental pieces and black and white photography should also be sent to this address. Please include your name and the best description you can come up with for what you’re submitting in the subject line, such as ‘poetry’ or ‘fiction’ etc. Don’t forget to include the email address at which you’d prefer to be contacted and a short bio. Submissions will be chosen in a mostly anonymous process and we will notify you whether or not you’ve been accepted in as timely a manner as possible. The deadline for submissions will be July 31, 2008. Payment will be one contributor’s copy since our staff works on a volunteer basis and that’s all we can afford right now. Extra copies will be available for purchase on the LiteraryMary website, and hopefully at a bookstore near you. Regardless, we will eventually take over the world.

If you have any questions or suggestions you may mail them to the address above or visit this link: Call For Submissions

You do not have to be a member of the forums to submit to the print journal.

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ahhh thanks hawke i wasn't really sure where it belonged.

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Hawke

Not a problem, ms. vodka dear. Sounds excellent. The best of luck with it!

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Foxee

Wow, Jen! That's quite an accomplishment...I imagine some of my work will be in the deluge of submissions you get.

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thank you very much foxee.

i'll be looking forward to it.

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Jon1jt

Wow, sounds like a wonderful subscription. Maybe I should submit. But I'm self-conscious, frightened of success, Mrs. Vodka. I imagine all those cameras clinking, and whether my teeth are white enough.

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ms. vodka

well - you could always have your teeth whitened.

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strangedaze

oh man, i went to the dentist and they gave me three needles and the anesthetic still didnt take away all the pain. dude.

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Mike C

Only failures are frightened of success.

I signed up, ms V. I'm tempted to submit a picture or two, as I'm getting back into photography again. Any particular subject matter?

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that happened to me once dru when i got a wisdom tooth pulled and the dentist acted like i was being a wussy.

hey mike i saw you over there. i didn't know you did photography.

no particular subject matter... we'll probably be looking for a few pieces for inside and something for the cover. as with the writing, we're open to everything as long as it's interesting and good.

jen

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strangedaze

and made of cheese.

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Jon1jt

Teach me somethin', Buddha.

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Mike C

I think I just did.

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ms. vodka

mike if your photography submissions are anything like what you've posted i will be delighted.

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