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Thank you for considering Amethyst Arsenic to publish your work.

The current reading period for the Summer 2012 issue is February 15, 2012 - May 15, 2012.

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We use a Submission Manager, and our guidelines are included both here and there.

Please follow our guidelines, or your submission may be declined.

Amethyst Arsenic is open to all forms of poetry and art. Within this broad scope, we have a preference for well-crafted imagery that brings a fresh use of language and perception. We also lean towards vignettes, moments, stories and meditations on people, objects, and scenes; the intimate whether confessional or persona, versus broad commentary. For an idea of our aesthetic, please check out our archives page and links page for publications we admire.

We want the best work we can find, so we're open to both new and established poets.

If you have any questions or technical issues with our submission process, please email admin[at]amethystarsenic.com. We will respond to polite inquiries.

Guidelines last updated December 28th, 2011.

General Terms:

Copyright - Upon publication, we reserve first North American publishing rights, and archiving your work online. After publication, rights return to the author.

Payment - We pay $5 per accepted poem and artwork. Additionally, we pay $50 for poems we nominate for Pushcart Prize, Best of the Web, and Best of the Net awards.

Response Times:

We consider the response time to be any update from us on the status of the submission.

Our response time is generally 30 days or less. A response from us can include: (1) acceptance or rejection of a submission, and (2) notification that a submission is still being considered for publication.

We review all new submissions at least once a week. If we feel a submission is not a good fit for our journal, we'll inform the submitter right away.

Final decisions for some submissions may occur the last week of the reading period.

Common Guidelines:

Simultaneous submissions are okay. We must be notified right away if a submission is accepted elsewhere.

Please only submit once per reading period, unless otherwise invited by us.

If you have been published by us or have been a guest editor, we prefer that you skip an issue before submitting again.

Previously published work is okay with notification of the date originally published, the publisher, and confirmation that the publication is no longer available.

Do NOT submit a bio. Instead, in the Cover Letter section of the submission form, just include your name. We will ask for a bio when work is accepted.

Poetry Guidelines:

Please submit 3 to 5 poems (using our submission manager) in a SINGLE Microsoft Word (doc, docx), or Rich Text (rtf). Name the file LastName-FirstName-Poetry.[doc|docx|rtf].
DO NOT submit poems separately; doing so can increase our operations costs, so we will promptly reject those submissions.

In the Submission Title entry of the submission form, enter FirstName Lastname - # poems

We prefer that poems have titles. If not, we will use the first line as the title.

Art Guidelines:

Please upload a zip file (using our submission manager) of 3-5 JPEG, GIF, or PNG files, and a Word [doc|docx], or Rich Text [rtf] that includes your name, the artwork media, size, and titles of the work.
The images should be no larger than 600 pixels wide by 600 pixels tall at 72 dpi.

Name the zip file - LastName-FirstName-Art.zip (This is the file you will submit.)

Name each image file incrementally: LastName-FirstName-1|2|3|4|5

Name the text file - LastName-FirstName-Art-Descriptions.
The text file content should be, for example:

In the Submission Title entry of the submission form, enter FirstName Lastname - Art