Submission Guidelines

All submissions must be well crafted, original works with an innovative spirit. Attach double-spaced, plain text (no *.doc or *.mcw) submissions to an e-mail to the appropriate editor. Please include your real name (i.e. no dirkdarkstar@whatever.com), your address, and a short description of yourself and your work in the body of the e-mail.

All Creative Submissions must be e-mailed to hornrim@turtleneck.net and should meet the following criteria:

Prose—10,000 words or less.

Verse—no more than 200 lines.

Nonfiction Articles—5,000 words or less.

All Critical Submissions must be e-mailed to: tweedjacket@turtleneck.net and should meet the following criteria:

Criticism and Essays—no longer than 5000 words.

Reviews—2500 words or less.

—No more than ten poems or three prose works should be submitted at a time.
—turtleneck.net will respond to submissions in 8-10 weeks.
—All works remain the property of their respective authors.
—Payment for published work shall consist of fair credit and 10 complimentary copies of the online version of turtleneck.net.

What about hypertext? If you would like to submit a hypertext work, please e-mail panphage@turtleneck.net with your proposal. Or, alternately, place your single-spaced proposal on an 8.5 x 14 sheet of paper with 0.25" margins in a shoe box with $2000 US and bury it in your backyard. One of our troglodytes will contact you.

turtleneck.net is fiercely devoted to helping previously unpublished writers get their work seen. In that spirit, we welcome works by both unpublished and published writers. We cannot, however, accept works that have been previously published in print or electronic format. We also prefer not to accept simultaneous submissions, but we know sometimes this is inconvenient for writers. If you send us a simultaneous submission, please inform us promptly if it is accepted elsewhere.

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