Writer's Guidelines
Entries can be in any form.
But you must write them from the perspective of an inanimate object or an animal to be considered.
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Submissions MUST include:
- Email subject reads "Submission Object: _____" Example (Object: Cell Phone), (Object: Tornado)
- Contact information: mailing address or city/country and phone number to call (in case of email problems
-- it's happened before and I couldn't publish an author's manuscript) - Object must experience an event
of some kind (a storm, a rejection, an injury, a happy moment, etc). - POV: 1st person (I, my, mine, our, ours, we)
Short stories
- Insert contact info on manuscript AND email
- Use strong, vivid word choices to engage the sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste senses
- Dialogue between two or more objects preferred but optional
- Margins (1.5"
) , single space lines, and indent paragraphs - I prefer active vs passive sentence structures
- Maximum word count: none
Poetry
- I prefer that lines do not begin with all capital letters
- Submit up to three poems
- Use poetry techniques (similes, metaphors, comparisons, onomatopoeia, alliteration, etc.)
- Use proper spacing and punctuation
- Maximum lines: 30
Email Guidelines
- Send submissions to: perspectivesmagazine@gmail.com
- Subject line reads: "Submission Object" (see above section submissions must include)
Miscellaneous
- Regarding bios: Please include a reference to my publications in which you have appeared.
- Acceptable file formats: doc,
docx , pdf,rtf or inline - I prefer using the comments feature in Word but will use inline text in an email if you're unfamiliar with it.
- Visit Issuu to see previous editions of Perspectives.
* Kindly leave sexual-related objects for another magazine
If you haven't contributed to previous issues, mention how you found the magazine.
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