NEO•GRIOT

Each issue of Literary Laundry is accompanied by a writing competition. All pieces submitted to us for review will be entered into consideration for our Awards of Distinction. We offer the following cash awards:

$500 for best poem
$500 for best short story
$250 for best one-act drama

In addition to considering undergraduate works for the Award of Distinction, we will also consider them for the following undergraduate awards:

$250 for best poem
$250 for best short story

Submissions are due December 1, 2010. There is no fee to submit.

Submissions

 

We look forward to discovering great literature and encourage all writers to submit their work. Literary Laundry rejects the belief that authors must pay in order to have their work read. We therefore require no submission fee.

The following guidelines govern our submission policy:

1. Authors may submit only one work per category during each review cycle. Authors can, however, submit work in multiple categories during one review cycle.
2. Poets may submit up to three pages of poetry. It does not matter to us whether we receive one three page poem or many short poems on three pages. Poems, however, must be submitted in one document.
   
3. Authors submitting prose fiction may submit one short story (or one chapter from a larger piece) per review cycle. We ask that submissions be single-spaced and kept to less than 10 pages single-spaced.
   
4. Authors submitting one-act drama may submit one piece per review cycle. We ask that submissions be single-spaced and kept to less than 15 pages single-spaced.
5. Authors must include with their work a one to two paragraph “abstract” explaining why their writing is intellectually evocative or of interest to a contemporary audience. The abstract should be included in the document submitted.
   
6. We welcome work that does not conventionally fall in one of these three genres. Please submit the work to the genre of your preference and explain its form in the abstract.
7. All submissions must be previously unpublished.
8. In order to submit work to Literary Laundry, authors must subscribe to the journal and create an account with username and password.
9. Literary Laundry is committed to ensuring that authors retain full rights to their submissions. We request that pieces selected for publication not appear in other literary journals within 18 months of online publication by Literary Laundry. If a work published on Literary Laundry is published again in the future, we ask only for an acknowledgment that the piece first appeared in Literary Laundry. 
   

 The following guidelines govern applications for our Author Showcase:

1. Authors must include a biography (picture is optional but would be preferred).
2. Authors must include an “abstract” explaining both the aesthetic character of their writing in general, and why the particular pieces submitted for showcase exemplify their endeavors. This "abstract" should also detail why submitted work is intellectually evocative or of interest to a contemporary audience. It should be approximately 300 words.
3. Authors submitting only poetry for showcase should submit between 8 and 10 works. At least 3 must be previously unpublished.
4. Authors submitting only prose fiction for showcase should submit between 3 and 4 short stories (or chapters from larger works).  At least one must be previously unpublished.
5. Authors submitting only one-act drama may submit between 3 and 4 pieces. At least one must be previously unpublished.
6. Authors wishing to submit in multiple categories may submit a total of 10 pieces. Of these 10 works, no more than 4 can be prose-fiction or one-act drama. At least 1/3 of submissions must be previously unpublished.
7. Authors must indicate which pieces are previously published and which are previously unpublished. Authors must identify the place and time of publication for previously published work.

In order to submit work to Literary Laundry, authors must subscribe to the journal and create an account with username and password.

Literary Laundry strives to be accessible and writer-friendly. Nonetheless, our primary aims are fast turn-around and the production of a high-quality journal. We do not intend to hold your work for longer than six months. If you submit work to Literary Laundry, you will receive, within six months, either an acceptance e-mail or a notification that the new issue has been published. We attempt to announce publication releases within 24 hours of loading the journal online. We assume that our submitters support Literary Laundry's desire to showcase masterful and intellectually engaging works of creative writing. Rather than "reject," we invite our submitters to read the journal and discuss it in the forums. 

Click here to login and submit

 

Click here to subscribe to Literary Laundry and create an account for submission