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Prism QuarterlyPrism is the premiere literary review published quarterly by Poets & Writers Literary Forum of Springfield, IL. We publish poetry and short fiction by both novice and veteran writers, with preference to P&WLF members. Filled with poems from Illinois and abroad - as far as Arkansas and Minnesota! Available only through PWLF. $6.00 per copy plus $1.00 shipping. Email for volume and contributor discounts. Subscribe today: $24.95 For further information about Prism, please visit: www.pitchblackbooks.com and click on the link for Daybreak Press - the new publisher of Prism Quarterly. Call for Submissions!We are now taking submissions of poetry and short prose for future issues. The deadlines for the upcoming issues are:
All poets interested in publication services should send inquiries by email to: prism@daybreakpoetry.com
Daybreak Press Prism Quarterly is published for PWLF by Daybreak Press, a division of Pitch-Black, LLC. Submission Guidelines:(please see also www.pitchblackbooks.com)All Submissions:All general poetry, fiction, and nonfiction work submitted for consideration should be included in the body of an email or as a rich-text-format (rtf) attachment to prism@daybreakpoetry.com For security, all attachments in other than txt and rtf files will be immediately deleted without being opened. Please provide an introduction to yourself and your work, a concise statement of intent to submit for publication that includes your name and contact information. PoetryPrism Quarterly seeks poems of 100 lines or less on any theme. Because the journal is open to poetry submissions of any genre, no poem will be rejected on the basis of theme or genre alone. Prism normally caters to poetry with a social conscience, or at least consciousness; this is not to say preachy by any means, but rather poetry that respects the reader by presenting the case and allowing the reader to decide for the reader what to think. This of course implies a limitation on vulgarity and shock for its own sake. We, the editors and existing readership, are interested in a broad range of work that demonstrates skill with concepts as well as with words. We like strong images, strong emotions, and poignant thoughts. We also greatly appreciate a good laugh. We like to laugh. We like to cry. We like to think. No restrictions on form or style, but we discourage end-stop rhyme or poems with excessive experimentation with fonts or typefaces (our content is conformed to consistent formatting throughout the journal, so contributor formatting is usually superseded). Submit up to three poems, but please no multiple submissions. That is, don’t submit another batch of poems until we’ve responded to the first. No reprints. No simultaneous submissions. FictionPrism Quarterly seeks thoughtful, active, memorable fiction. We are fairly open-minded, but choosy. Send fiction up to 4,000 words. Words of greater length will be cut to suit length requirements; we prefer the author do this, but if the work warrants it we will go the extra mile for our readership. Non-FictionPrism Quarterly is extremely choosey in its publication of non-fiction material; however, we do enjoy well-written and highly polished prose. We are willing to entertain ideas for this genre. Recent non-fiction pieces have included reviews and scholarly essays (the scholarly essays we like tend to be the kind that most professors would disdain for carrying well-argued points outside the ivory-tower comfort zone, such as an essay that argues Pip as a schizoid serial murderer or something interesting to general readers as well as our esteemed neighbors in the Halls of Academe). Ideal length is 4,000 words or less. Contributors to Prism Quarterly are paid one copy of the journal in which their work appears (discounts on multiple copies are offered to contributors). All rights for published works revert to writers upon publication. We look forward to reading your submissions. |
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