SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Verity La publishes in the following streams:

• Lies To Live By: short fiction to 2,000 words
• Being Sure: non-fiction to 1,000 words
• Heightened Talk: poetry with gumption
• The Verity La Interviews: a series of Q & As focusing on literary craft and the creative process
• Verity La Reviews: reviews of both literature and any other type of creative practice, to 1,000 words.   Principles for reviews: accuracy, respect, truth
• Catching Light: photomedia

Prose should be submitted to fictionsubsverityla@yahoo.com.au and poetry to poetrysubsverityla@yahoo.com.au. Submissions to Verity La’s special project Out of Limbo should be sent to limboverityla@yahoo.com.au (only open until 22 July 2012).  All submissions must include ‘Verity La Submission’ in the subject line.

Being a completely voluntary and free-to-net affair, we are unable to pay for work published.  Perhaps this will change in the future.  If you’re loaded and feel like helping out, please email us…right away.

How to get published in Verity La:

• submit your best work, work that even you as the writer is excited about
• writing for the on-line environment means that you’re competing against an infinite amount of other stylish and interesting sites – aim to engage your readers within seconds.  How to do this?  Do it dramatically and succinctly.
• edit your work, and edit it again, and edit it one more time; make sure that you search and destroy every typo, including punctuation errors – a misplaced apostrophe is like grit in the eye
• include a simple covering email, which should briefly state your writing background so we know where you are coming from
• we are unable to acknowledge receipt of submissions, so please expect at least three months for a response to your work
• please do not chase us up – this only distracts us from the main task, which is reading the work submitted
• and, of course, subscribe to the journal, so you know what sort of work we’re into.

Verity La is always on the lookout for reviewers and interviewers.  If you would like to contribute to the journal in this way, please contact us on the email addresses above.

Note: all images used on Verity La are found on the web and assumed to be in the public domain.  If you would like acknowledgement for your work, or for your work to be removed, please contact the editors.

© 2012 by Verity La and individual contributors.  Reproduction in whole or in part is permitted if acknowledgement is made to Verity La, and do let us know so that we can send our readers your way. The views expressed by Verity La contributors are not necessarily those of the editor/publisher.