Photography by Marco Mentil. All rights reserved.
An Online Literary Magazinetm
is committed to expanding the creative landscape of the literary web. Our central editorial criterion is the overall imaginative effort you deploy to transcend prevailing (suburban, academic) orthodoxies. The narrative contours of magical realism, world poetry, and Mitteleuropean kunst und kultur are especially appreciated.
- all forms of poetry (limit 3 per submission), including translations
- all manner of fiction, including novel excerpts
- travel narratives, humour, & creative non-fiction beyond the workshoppe norm
- feuilleton on matters consistent with our m.o.
- art & photography (Send .jpegs of at least three pieces with your query; we heart large portfolios.)
Though we may not be able to offer you detailed comments on your submission, we do promise to read everything you send with care and consideration. Our response time is rarely over six weeks, unless of course the Editor-in-Chief almost dies, which happens from time to time. Follow-up queries are not discouraged.
A priori submission...
Read the magazine first. If you're interested in seeing your work appear here, knowing what we do (and how we like to do it) is a positive, pro-active first step to joining our growing family of writers. Having a sense of our magazine's vibe, our toponymy, and what both suggest about our preferred content goes a long way into clarifying whether you ought submit to us. Read our Editor-in-Chief's interview with Duotrope's Digest for more on this ... and keep in mind Diaghilev's famous dictum. a
Paste your work into the message area. Be aware that OfficeLive often translates large bodies of text into single-spacing (it's a Microsoft thing, you'd guess). For fiction submissions, we highly recommend you verify your paragraphs are clearly broken where you intend before hitting the Submit button. Vast physical editing jobs that result from not doing this usually end up declined.
(We strongly favour pieces less than 2,000 words.)
For our poetic clientele, clear stanza breaks are a must. Be warned that playful or mad tabs may not survive intact.
Finally, do tell how you found us...and don't forget to include a (brief) third person bio paragraph w/current domicile, recent credits, et al, when you submit! If we're interested in your submission, we're just as interested in sharing a little bit about you with our worldwide readership. An omitted bio creates a new string to keep track of in the middle of a time-sensitive environment, and may result in your submission being declined.
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We accept unthemed submissions year 'round only via the form below...
Unless explicitly requested, please do not send your submissions
in the form of attachments or pasted text to the above address
in lieu of, or in addition to, our form below.
Photography by Marco Mentil. All rights reserved.
We publish pieces with first electronic rights. This essentially means that pieces in Danse Macabre have not been published elsewhere in electronic format. If your submission has been previously published, please indicate this in your submission with wheres & whens.
We are always happy when contributors reprint pieces first published in DM. However, we require three month exclusivity on pieces we publish, starting from the initial publication date. We also request courtesy attribution on any reprinted pieces, stating that it was first published in DM.
We accept simultaneous submissions, provided that this is clearly stated with the submission and that we are promptly notified if a given submission is accepted elsewhere.
All work submitted to Danse Macabre must be the property/work of the submitter. As owner of said work, you retain all subsequent rights to the work while allowing DM upon submission the right to: Publish said works in one to three electronic issues, incl. DM du Jour; retain your submission in our Archiv; and include your work in any (single) future print & e-book edition of DM.
We reserve the right to withdraw without notice our offer of publication at any time.