| Every piece of work is entered in a contest regardless of reading fee contribution or not. Remember, if our guidelines are not met we will not read your work. To submit for a contest and print publication visit our competition page. Send us your very best and remember that you don't need credentials to get your work published. Anyone that can write well and keep the interest of our audience has an opportunity here. Example of a short biography is a follows. Walt Whitman Born on Long Island, New York, Whitman at age eleven became a printer's apprentice and then served as a journeyman. At some point, Whitman turned to free-lance writing. (You may include your alma mater) If we need more information, we will contact you. At the present time we haven't the funds to pay for your work directly; however, there is always the future. Our Zygote Abstract Poetry Anthology has been sent out for review and should publish in late May or June. |
| Submissions - We are taking submissions for Zygote Abstract 2009 and other book projects under our competition schedule. Read the guidelines below to submit. Visit the competition page for more information. |
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| Guidelines When you submit to Red Pulp Underground, you are giving us the right to (talent permitting) publish your work in an anthology. In addition, you are giving us the right to publish your work a second time in a larger more comprehensive work. Of course, all rights revert to the you the author. Unless expressed differently for a competition (competition page) we favor short stories under 2,500 words, prose under 1,200 words, flash Fiction under 1,000 words, and poetry under 300 words. We prefer submissions that a reader can digest within a few minutes and enjoy enough to talk about. You are writing for the reader on the go. Give us work that is sexy, sensuous, humorous, rebelliousness, slick, slightly raunchy, ironic, and very clever. Leave no subject untouched. We want you to explore everything from aardvark to zebra and we know the words politics and sex lay somewhere between those two. If you use profanity or slang, use it sparingly and ensure that it enhances your work. We need digital art for book covers or simply pictures or photos you may want to contribute that enhance your writing. If we publish your work you will receive credit. If you win a contest you will receive payment. We will use nudity that is presented in good taste. Send us what you have. We have received few photographs and artistic media. Email your submissions as an attachment. In the subject area write poetry submission, flash fiction submission or whatever it is you are sending. You may send a short biography of yourself in the body of the email. Never submit your work in the body; send your actual work as an attachment. We prefer MS Word documents. If your work is not sent as an attachment we will destroy the email without reading it. In addition, ensure you submit your work in Times New Roman 12 pt. See a sample of a short bio in the next column. If you need to use snail mail our address is POB 3082 Universal City, Tx 78148 Send your written work, digital art, and pictures to submissions. |
| Call for submissions Only one project has a deadline for submission. The other three have no deadline. Send us your short stories, Poetry and Prose (fiction or nonfiction) for: Zygote Abstract 2009 - Eclectic poetry and prose - submit your best work - submission deadline is January 31, 2009 A Lubricious Diary - A book of erotic poetry and short stories (no deadline) Dysfunctional Poets - Well written poetry on anything impaired (personal, social, and political rants) We are looking for dirt written in dives, dirty public bathroom walls, funky smelling bedrooms, and anywhere else you can dig it up. (no deadline) |