After reading these guidelines, email 1-5 poems (pasted in the body of the email preferred) with the subject "SUBMISSION - YOURNAME" to breadcrumbscabs@gmail.com. Include a brief, third-person bio. No need for previous publications in your bio. Art submissions also welcome (see below).
General submission guidelines
Send:
Confessional poetry. Love poetry with unflattering, pessimistic imagery. Poetry that makes us think politics with personal, tiny snapshots. Poems about fighting against oppression and repression. Poems about guilt. Poetry that make us feel nauseous. Sentimentality distorted with grittiness. Anything with strange and interesting imagery. Get your hands dirty with real human emotion. Dark is okay here, as is political, or erotic, or absurd, or poems that can't seem to fit in anywhere else. We'll give them a try. Free verse is much preferred. Prose-poetry is okay, too. No length minimums or maximums.
Don't send:
Do not send reprints, religious poems, or children's poems. While you may send poetry with crazy, complex spacing or formatting, we prefer experimental content over experimental form. Rhyming/form poetry is okay if well done, but rarely accepted.
The writer:
Since we know from personal experience the lack of spaces for voices of women and/or LGBT writers, those are especially encouraged, but anyone is welcome to submit. We don't care about your credentials, only the quality of the pieces you submit. Since there's some adult material in this magazine, you should be 18 years of age or older to submit.
Response times:
Poems will be accepted or rejected in two weeks or less, but if accepted today or later, will not be published until: approx. July 2010. If accepted, you are guaranteed a spot in an upcoming issue. If the wait is a problem, please do not submit. It is unacceptable to withdraw a poem after acceptance due to the wait.
That said, simultaneous submissions are perfectly okay, as long as you follow the above and please let us know immediately if your pieces are accepted elsewhere, so we can withdraw them.
What'll happen:
Pieces that are accepted will be published in a free .pdf, as well as a paperback book available for purchase through Lulu.com. Issues are monthly. We cannot pay authors/artists at the current time, but if we make any sort of profit, we'll try to change that. If accepted, all rights remain in the author's or artist's hands, and may be reprinted as long as you give previous publication credit to Breadcrumb Scabs.
Dark, sensual, disturbing, or political artwork (or any combination of the above) is welcome. Artists chosen for the cover art in each issue will get a full bio page in the magazine, as well as a permanent link on the website.
Attach 1-5 pieces in an email to breadcrumbscabs@gmail.com. Artwork should ideally:
- Be at least w:1800px by h:2110px
Artwork submitted that deviates from these standards may be cropped, enlarged, or rejected if unusable. If you're unsure about these guidelines, submit anyway. Care will be taken to preserve your original work and artistic quality.
- Have an approximate width to height ratio of .85 to 1
- Be at least 300 DPI