Submission Guidelines for Dark Eye Glances
Dark Eye Glances is now a professional literary journal that will pay a fee to contributors. Those contributing poetry to the September 2010 and subsequent issues will receive a flat fee payment (not based on word count) via their secure Paypal account.
Details about the amount of payment for poetry contributions will be provided to contributors in their contract after acceptance of their work.
- FREQUENCY: Dark Eye Glances will publish a new issue each quarter, i.e. June, Sept, Dec, Mar.
- POETRY THEMES: We are interested in dark poetry and musical lyrics; that is, poetry or lyrics with dark, romantic, dramatic or neo-gothic themes and language. we are not accepting any fiction or non-fiction at this time. Please keep in mind that the tone of this publication is “dark”, therefore we may not accept even the best poetry if it doesn’t suit the tone of the publication.
- LYRIC POETRY: Although we favor high quality metrical and rhyming poetry or lyrics, we will consider ALL FORMS OF QUALITY POETRY. For rhyming poetry or lyrics, the rhyme scheme need not be present in all lines or stanzas.
- METHOD OF SUBMISSION: Please submit all poetry/lyrics in a single batch within the body of an email (attached documents will be rejected) to DarkEyeGlances@gmail.com.
- At the TOP of the email, please include your full contact information: author’s real name, the name the author wishes to be published under, his/her mailing address, telephone number and preferred email address. Please do NOT use Time New Roman font in your email body as TNR is an ugly font. ;-D
- Immediately BELOW the contact information, please include a brief author bio, Website(s) URL, writing/publishing background (if any) and whether any part of the work being submitted has been previously published, and if so, whether it has appeared in print or digital format or both. (We may not accept previously published work that has already been published in print as we are looking for new, original work for this book.)
- You may submit up to 10 poems of any length per issue. However, only one email submission per author, per issue, will be accepted.
- Bold all poem titles and include your name below each title.
- We will not read or consider hard copy submissions sent by postal mail or courier.
- READING OR SUBMISSION FEES: No submission fee or reading fee is required.
- TERMS & RIGHTS: Only copyright owners (the original authors) may submit their own, original work. Plagiarism or copyright infringement of any kind will result in a lifetime ban from the publication. Upon written acceptance we will ask you to review an agreement by email and respond to it as your digital signature. We ask for persmission to publish the work on the DarkEyeGlances.com website in the most current issue as well as archive the work for an indefinite period. After it is published once in a single issue, you may request for it to be removed from our archives if you wish. We regret that Dark Eye Glances does not pay authors any fees at this time for publishing poetry, but we are planning to publish a print anthology of the best works each year, and if an author’s work is selected for the print anthology we will send you a contract that may offer a fee, free copy(s) or another form of remuneration.
- RESPONSES/READING TIME: All submissions will be acknowledged and authors who submit work will be contacted later even if their work is not accepted for publication. We cannot promise how quickly we will respond to submission(s), but simultaneous submissions are acceptable provided authors disclose whether the work is scheduled to appear somewhere else.
EMAIL SUBMISSIONS TO: DarkEyeGlances@gmail.com
