Submission Guidelines

Although there’s the hope of eventually expanding into bigger and better things, we’re only looking for the following at this moment in time. We’re particularly looking for film and music, but obviously, stuff for all categories is essential in some way.

All authors retain full copyrights of their work.

All questions/submissions/misc should be sent along to magazine@feeltheword.net

For all submissions, please include a brief cover letter. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy. Just a few lines of who you are and what you’re sending us.

Also: If you’d like to submit to more than one area, that’s fine. Just please make sure they’re in seperate emails (for example, if you wanted to send a movie review and a short story, you’d send the short story in one email and the film review in another).

Music

Staff

-Anyone who is interested in a part-time/full-time writing job with the magazine. Current responsibilities would include contributing reviews of albums for both mainstream and independent releases of your own choice, as well as assignments from both the editor of the music department and myself. Albums from any era and any genre are welcome. Reviews should be professional, but true to your own voice and writing style. Length-wise, I will leave it up to your own common sense. Although you may not agree with their subject material and overall style, I would encourage anyone interested to look through the pages of Rolling Stone, Spin, Paste, and other music magazines. If only to get a sense of the level I’m hoping for. Please include your work as either a Microsoft Word attachment or in the body of an email (properly formatted).

Freelance

If there’s an album review you’d like to contribute, feel free to send it our way. Guidelines for freelancers are the same as those interested in a staff position. Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Please specify in the subject heading that you are sending a music review.

Creative

Short Story

-Anyone interested in contributing original short fiction to the magazine. Stories can be about any subject you feel like sharing with us, although genre fiction (horror, romance, erotica) is not encouraged. Stories can include these elements (except for erotica), but they should not be the focus point of your submission. A basic understanding of grammar and English would also help your chances greatly. And as far as length goes, I’m going to again ask people to use their common sense. A minimum of one thousand words and a maximum of eight thousand words is pretty much in the ballpark of what we’re after. Please do not submit more than two short stories in a given month. Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Please include your work as either a Microsoft Word attachment or in the body of an email (properly formatted). Please specify that you are sending a short story in the subject heading.

Poetry

-Anyone interested in contributing original poetry to the magazine. Poems can be of any length, style, or subject. A basic understanding of english and grammar would be nice as well. Please do not submit more than six poems in a given month. Anywhere from one to three poems will be published out of your submission (assuming your work is accepted). Please include your work as either a Microsoft Word attachment or in the body of an email (properly formatted). Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Please specify that you are sending poetry in the subject heading.

Film

Staff

-Anyone who is interested in a full-time/part-time writing job with the magazine. Responsibilities would include contributing reviews of both mainstream/independent releases on either the theatrical/DVD release level. New releases and classics are welcome. Any film from any era is fine. These contributions would be a combination of films you’d like to see reviewed as well as assignments from us. Length-wise, I will leave it up your common sense. Again, regardless of whether or not you actually like them, I would encourage you to read magazines like Spin and Rolling Stone for an idea of film reviews that combine professionalism with your own unique voice and take on films.  Please include your work as either a Microsoft Word attachment or in the body of an email (properly formatted).

Freelance

If you have anything you’d like to send our way, please feel free to do so. Guidelines for freelance are pretty much the same as those for staff. Please specify that you are sending a film review in the subject heading.

Payment

-We are unable to pay our contributors or staff (and that includes the overworked Editor-in-Chief) at this time.

Publication

-At the moment, we publish a new issue at some point during the first week of every month. All submissions must be in no later than the end of the previous month. After that, submissions will not be looked over until the second week of a given month (or roughly around the time the current issue is up).

And that’s going to do it for now.