{"id":11,"date":"2015-08-11T21:40:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T21:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2020-10-10T00:38:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T00:38:40","slug":"submission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/submission\/","title":{"rendered":"Submission Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">87 Bedford is <strong>permanently closed.<\/strong> We hope everyone stays safe and healthy, and thanks for reading!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We publish the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Short Fiction<\/li><li>Flash Fiction<\/li><li>Micro Fiction<\/li><li>Serial Fiction<\/li><li>Poetry<\/li><li>Spoken-Word<\/li><li>Art<\/li><li>Photography<\/li><li>Other Forms of Creative Media<\/li><li>Book Reviews<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Short Fiction<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are seeking beautifully-written, original short&nbsp;stories by writers with distinct voices and a clear, sweeping vision. We want to read stories not simply&nbsp;for the pleasure they give us, but also for the way they dare to dream, to take risks, to question or to speak out for\/against our ever shifting&nbsp;world&#8211;stories that possess both the courage and craft needed to execute on their ambitious intent: the melding of&nbsp;art&nbsp;with&nbsp;entertainment. Our favorite kinds of stories are those that are still emotionally haunting long after their plots have&nbsp;slipped from our memories, the fingerprints of their&nbsp;ghosts left behind on&nbsp;our day-to-day lives.&nbsp;To paraphrase&nbsp;Flannery O&#8217;Connor, the ending of a short story should be at&nbsp;once surprising and inevitable, gifting&nbsp;us with some kind of intangible &#8211; a deepening awareness of the fragile conditions of being human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are&nbsp;strong advocates for&nbsp;intoxicating&nbsp;language and pleasing sentences. That said, stories&nbsp;should also be&nbsp;clear and readable. Proper grammar and punctuation are&nbsp;vital to crafting a story which is fluid, artfully-written, and also easy to comprehend&nbsp;on&nbsp;a line-by-line level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We welcome both traditional and experimental forms of literary fiction, as well as genre fiction provided we feel that the work shows some &#8220;literary&#8221; aesthetic. We highly encourage submitting intrepid stories&nbsp;that slip across borders, elusive to strict marketing conventions while staying in full control of their geography at all times. Genre-blending should have purpose and direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll take any great story&nbsp;that can be classified&nbsp;under the umbrella of commercial or genre&nbsp;fiction (romance, mystery, crime, etc). What gets us excited is&nbsp;speculative fiction in all its guises&nbsp;(fantasy, science-fiction, magic realism, surrealism, slipstream, urban fantasy, horror, steampunk, silk punk, cyberpunk, etc). We are fans of humor,&nbsp;but our&nbsp;tendency is towards dry wit, satire, or absurdity treated with a flat acceptance, rather than anything slapstick or vulgar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&nbsp;<strong>do not<\/strong>&nbsp;accept anything&nbsp;that contains gratuitous sex, violence or unnecessarily graphic language. Nor do we read fan fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please only send us short stories between 1000 to&nbsp;8,000 words (preferably ~4000). We will not&nbsp;consider any story over 8,000 words&nbsp;unless we feel it\u2019s absolutely outstanding&nbsp;and makes a valid case for the extra word count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Flash Fiction<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We define flash fiction as stories between 500 to&nbsp;1000 words. Submitted stories that fall within&nbsp;these limits will automatically be classified as flash. Just like a great short story, a great piece of flash&nbsp;ought to&nbsp;impress us with finesse throughout its&nbsp;entirety,&nbsp;instead of hinging&nbsp;solely&nbsp;on an unexpected&nbsp;twist&nbsp;at&nbsp;the&nbsp;end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Micro Fiction<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a bigger (or smaller) challenge, send us&nbsp;a work of&nbsp;micro fiction (100 words or less).&nbsp;Be sure it still tells a &#8220;complete story\u201d that has a beginning-middle-end with conflict and resolution. Micro fiction shares a lot of the same elements with prose poetry. We like to think the difference is an emphasis on character and character development rather than on an image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Serial Fiction<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We accept serial works, especially for&nbsp;fantasy, science fiction or other genre fiction.&nbsp;We will publish&nbsp;each&nbsp;installment weekly or in each new issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please send us only (1) story per category per active submission. Please do not submit again until we have responded to your previous&nbsp;submission in a given category. For example, you may send us a short story submission&nbsp;<em>and<\/em>&nbsp;a&nbsp;flash fiction submission at the same time, but&nbsp;<strong>no multiple submissions<\/strong>, i.e.&nbsp;do not submit another short story or flash until we have responded to your previous short story or flash submission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We allow&nbsp;<strong>simultaneous submissions<\/strong>&nbsp;but ask that you notify us as soon as your story has been accepted by another market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Refer to the guidelines below on how to format and submit your manuscript.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We try our very best to keep our response time to under <strong>one month<\/strong>. Feel free to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/contact\">inquire<\/a> about the status of your submission if you have not heard back\u00a0after a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Poetry<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We want vibrant poetry that steals into our mind, hijacks our neurotransmitters, and takes us for&nbsp;a joyride outside our comfort zone, towards a higher&nbsp;political, social, and cultural elevation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We accept all types of original prose&nbsp;and spoken-word poems. Please submit a total of&nbsp;no more than (2)<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>prose<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>and\/or spoken-word pieces to us at a given time. Please do not submit again until we have responded to your previous&nbsp;submission.&nbsp;Refer to the guidelines below on how to format and submit your poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Art &amp; Photography<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We want sublime art and creative&nbsp;photography to pair&nbsp;with our stories and poems.&nbsp;We&#8217;re much more inclined&nbsp;accept&nbsp;works&nbsp;that complements the&nbsp;prose we&#8217;ve&nbsp;published (any story or poem&nbsp;that is&nbsp;not featuring an art sample), but we&#8217;re happy to consider standalone pieces&nbsp;as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may submit up to a total of (3) pieces of art or photo&nbsp;in a single submission. Please do not submit again until we have responded to your previous&nbsp;submission.&nbsp;Refer to the guidelines below on how to format and submit your art or photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Editing, Rights &amp;&nbsp;Payment<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we accept your work, we&nbsp;may make line-edits for grammar, punctuation and clarity. You will have the opportunity to review and discuss all edits with us before the final version of your work is published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For unpublished works (that have never appeared anywhere online or in print), we ask for<strong> First World Serial Rights, First World Electronic Rights<\/strong>&nbsp;and<strong>&nbsp;Exclusive Rights&nbsp;<\/strong>for ninety (90) days. All rights revert back to the author after ninety (90) days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We accept&nbsp;reprints of published works. For reprints, we ask for<strong> Second Serial (Reprint) World Electronic Rights<\/strong>, which are&nbsp;non-exclusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For all stories and poems, whether original or reprint, we ask for<strong>&nbsp;Non-exclusive&nbsp;<strong>Audio Rights<\/strong><\/strong>, which gives us the right to publish an audio podcast of&nbsp;the work if we so choose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We kindly request&nbsp;permission to&nbsp;archive your work on our website. We publish works on a <strong>rolling basis<\/strong>, and&nbsp;all published works will automatically be archived&nbsp;unless you tell us not to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For questions on your rights, first take a look <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pw.org\/content\/copyright?cmnt_all=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. If you have additional\u00a0concerns, please let us know through our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/contact\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"93\">Contact Page<\/a>. We&#8217;ll happily explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We pay $0.01 USD per word for each short story,&nbsp;installments&nbsp;of serial fiction,&nbsp;or&nbsp;book review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We pay $10 USD for everything else, such as reprints, flash fiction, micro fiction, poetry, art and photography, or other creative works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Payment will be made through PayPal (preferred), or mailed by check, upon publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All published works will be credited with a byline, and contributors will be\u00a0featured on our <a href=\"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/contributors\/\">Contributors Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Formatting &amp; Submitting<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All fiction manuscripts should be in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=standard+manuscript+format&amp;gws_rd=ssl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">standard manuscript format<\/a>.&nbsp;<strong>Most important: double-spaced, 12 pt standard font (e.g. Times, Arial, Courier), and page numbers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poetry can be formatted any way you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Include your work as a separate attachment (.DOC, .DOCX, or .RTF) in an email. For spoken-word and other creative media pieces, include a link to your performance video in the body of your email (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) or attach a&nbsp;video file in a common&nbsp;video format (.AVI, .FLV, .MPEG, .WMV, .MOV) along with a transcript of the piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For&nbsp;art and photos, please send each piece as a separate attachment only as&nbsp;.PNG or .JPEG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please email all submissions to <a href=\"mailto:su%62m%69t87bed%66%6Fr%64@gmail.com\">submit87bedford@gmail.com<\/a> and include in the subject field&nbsp;<strong>the type of piece<\/strong>,<strong>&nbsp;the genre<\/strong> if&nbsp;appropriate,&nbsp;<strong>the name, <\/strong>and<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>approximate<strong>&nbsp;word count&nbsp;<\/strong>or number of lines of&nbsp;poetry. Examples:&nbsp;<em>Flash&nbsp;Fiction &#8211; Fantasy &nbsp;&#8211; &#8220;The Girl Who Grew To Be&nbsp;80 Ft. Tall&#8221; (6000)<\/em>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<em>Poetry &#8211; Spoken-Word &#8211; &#8220;Folding&nbsp;Origami With My Mother&#8221; (20).<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please also mention how&nbsp;you heard about us in the body of the email. If you use&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/duotrope.com\/listing\/20417\" target=\"_blank\">Duotrope<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com\/Market.aspx?mid=4908\" target=\"_blank\">The Submission Grinder<\/a>, we encourage you to&nbsp;favorite us and report on your submission. A cover letter isn&#8217;t necessary, but you&#8217;re welcome to&nbsp;include&nbsp;anything that you feel is important or interesting for us to know about&nbsp;the piece. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We look forward to receiving&nbsp;your work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>87 Bedford is permanently closed. We hope everyone stays safe and healthy, and thanks for reading! We publish the following: Short Fiction Flash Fiction Micro Fiction Serial Fiction Poetry Spoken-Word Art Photography Other Forms of Creative Media Book Reviews Short Fiction We are seeking beautifully-written, original short&nbsp;stories by writers with distinct voices and a clear, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/submission\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Submission Guidelines<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5315,"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/5315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/87bedford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}