EASTERN IOWA REVIEW
GUIDELINES
WE WILL REOPEN TO SUBMISSIONS ON JULY 1, 2017 (for our online themed issue)
and
OCTOBER 1, 2017 (for another online-only issue and our lyric essay print issue)
and
OCTOBER 1, 2017 (for another online-only issue and our lyric essay print issue)
GENERAL INFORMATION
What we seek: Place-based themes, literary vitality, moral consequence, the sharply beautiful and achingly honest but without a lingering on the darkness. Your submission should be considered "crossover" work: that is, suitable for most ages, though certainly not dumbed down or soft or overtly religious.
What we hope to avoid: purple prose, erotica, horror, bawdy and base elements, base humor, predictability, swearing, gratuitous sexuality, preaching / conversion attempts / agenda in religious work, political works without story and literary bent, racial or sexual bias, bigotry, name-calling. Excessive and unnecessary drama for drama's sake. Darkness for darkness' sake. Find better ways to employ strong emotion in your writing.
If you're not sure about a work or a topic, please send it anyway. Though we can't absolutely promise input, in some cases we may jot a suggestion if we have to decline a piece that's close to our ideal.
Further
Miscellaneous Facts
Any writer from any country in the world is welcome to submit. All submissions must be in English.
Include a short 50 word bio in the space allowed on the Submittable form.
This will be an annual print journal. Contributors will be informed when the issue is published, probably mid-summer.
We may choose to publish select pieces or excerpts of work on this site.
Our final decisions will be based on work quality and current needs (though we may on rare occasion solicit work).
We may nominate for the Pushcart award.
Please do not ask about a free submission until 90 days have passed.
We are a former member of CLMP and gladly adhere to their standards of practice.
Terms of Publication
By submitting your work to the Eastern Iowa Review, you agree, should your work be accepted, to grant the Eastern Iowa Review exclusive print and electronic rights to your work until the time of print publication (for print journal submissions), as well as a non-exclusive right to maintain a copy of the published work in the literary journal archives indefinitely, online included. Any subsequent publication should include the credit “originally published in the Eastern Iowa Review.” For online-only issues, we ask that you wait to reprint it for a month after it appears on our site.
“Exclusive print and electronic rights” means that you agree not to re-publish your work elsewhere in print or online until the time of print publication, or a month later than online publication for online-only issues. “Publish” means any public display of your work, and includes your personal website and posting to message boards. You are welcome to link to the page featuring your work instead, if sample excerpts or the complete work is featured online. Once the issue your work appears in has been published in print, you are free to republish your work in print or online. We have the right to display your work, in part or the whole, for promotional purposes online, in flyers, etc., in perpetuity. This includes on various online sales channels, in perpetuity.
Effective 2014, you also grant the Eastern Iowa Review the perpetual right to post an audio version (podcast) of your work on this or another site using our choice of reader.
You retain all other rights, including the right to re-publish the work in electronic or non-electronic form once the print issue has been released, or a month after online-only issues have appeared.
Letters to the editor(s) from any party may be published in whole or in part here or elsewhere on line. Names and other identifying information will be withheld unless the author’s express permission is obtained. We welcome letters to the editor. Send to: contact@portyonderpress.com.
Remember The Duotrope! Please report your submissions to the Eastern Iowa Review to help reflect a more accurate Duotrope reportage.
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- Information on the lyric essay you may want to explore before submitting: http://www.portyonderpress.com/the-lyric-essay.html.
- Most journals and reviews want a story; we want magic in the language & fire in the flow, a show to impress over drama to incite. Please stretch your lyrical wings. Give us the beautiful, the musical, even the odd & quirky. Think Annie Dillard meets Gertrude Stein, as one possible combination.
- Free general submissions during our reading months. Tip Jar expedited submissions: $3.50 tip jar to be read within 15 days and a decision made.
- All stories must appeal to a broad audience ("family-friendly"). Do feel free to delve into the tougher subjects, only do so carefully. We are a "journal of good spaces."
- No identifying author details on submissions, please. We read "blind." We also edit all material submitted, if necessary, but the author will have final say as per usual.
- Please do not submit again until you hear back from us.
- Favorite authors: Annie Dillard, Katherine Dean Moore, Ellen Meloy, Gertrude Stein, Cormac McCarthy, Stephanie Dickinson, and others.
- We love nature, the world, outer space. Cultures.
- We'd rather avoid stories of illnesses, relationship problems, and harsh family dynamics as the central focus.
- We would like to see the gentle or redemptive or calm within the honest, the light of the flame within the darkness; and though the flame may burn at times, show us the blue streaks within the flame, the pink of the scars, and what the healing means to you, not how loudly you screamed at the touch.
- Reveal the new. Be witty. Be fun or meditative or experimental with language.
What we seek: Place-based themes, literary vitality, moral consequence, the sharply beautiful and achingly honest but without a lingering on the darkness. Your submission should be considered "crossover" work: that is, suitable for most ages, though certainly not dumbed down or soft or overtly religious.
What we hope to avoid: purple prose, erotica, horror, bawdy and base elements, base humor, predictability, swearing, gratuitous sexuality, preaching / conversion attempts / agenda in religious work, political works without story and literary bent, racial or sexual bias, bigotry, name-calling. Excessive and unnecessary drama for drama's sake. Darkness for darkness' sake. Find better ways to employ strong emotion in your writing.
If you're not sure about a work or a topic, please send it anyway. Though we can't absolutely promise input, in some cases we may jot a suggestion if we have to decline a piece that's close to our ideal.
Further
- Simultaneous submissions are fine but please let us know immediately if you receive an acceptance before you hear back from us.
- NO reprints.
- Family-friendly: work sans swearing, gratuitous sex and violence, and other activities that might be considered "adult." We will ask you to edit out all instances of such.
- You should hear from us within 30 to 90 days from the time of your submission (unless you use our Tip Jar option).
Miscellaneous Facts
Any writer from any country in the world is welcome to submit. All submissions must be in English.
Include a short 50 word bio in the space allowed on the Submittable form.
This will be an annual print journal. Contributors will be informed when the issue is published, probably mid-summer.
We may choose to publish select pieces or excerpts of work on this site.
Our final decisions will be based on work quality and current needs (though we may on rare occasion solicit work).
We may nominate for the Pushcart award.
Please do not ask about a free submission until 90 days have passed.
We are a former member of CLMP and gladly adhere to their standards of practice.
Terms of Publication
By submitting your work to the Eastern Iowa Review, you agree, should your work be accepted, to grant the Eastern Iowa Review exclusive print and electronic rights to your work until the time of print publication (for print journal submissions), as well as a non-exclusive right to maintain a copy of the published work in the literary journal archives indefinitely, online included. Any subsequent publication should include the credit “originally published in the Eastern Iowa Review.” For online-only issues, we ask that you wait to reprint it for a month after it appears on our site.
“Exclusive print and electronic rights” means that you agree not to re-publish your work elsewhere in print or online until the time of print publication, or a month later than online publication for online-only issues. “Publish” means any public display of your work, and includes your personal website and posting to message boards. You are welcome to link to the page featuring your work instead, if sample excerpts or the complete work is featured online. Once the issue your work appears in has been published in print, you are free to republish your work in print or online. We have the right to display your work, in part or the whole, for promotional purposes online, in flyers, etc., in perpetuity. This includes on various online sales channels, in perpetuity.
Effective 2014, you also grant the Eastern Iowa Review the perpetual right to post an audio version (podcast) of your work on this or another site using our choice of reader.
You retain all other rights, including the right to re-publish the work in electronic or non-electronic form once the print issue has been released, or a month after online-only issues have appeared.
Letters to the editor(s) from any party may be published in whole or in part here or elsewhere on line. Names and other identifying information will be withheld unless the author’s express permission is obtained. We welcome letters to the editor. Send to: contact@portyonderpress.com.
Remember The Duotrope! Please report your submissions to the Eastern Iowa Review to help reflect a more accurate Duotrope reportage.
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