PROYECTO LATINA
!Felicicadades! Proyecto Latina is soon to be completing its 7th year! To celebrate this milestone, we are creating an anthology of the voices, artwork, and chisme that have made Proyecto Latina thrive as a safe and vibrant space for Latina creativity in Chicago. We want to include your best work that represents your collaboration with Proyecto Latina’s mission and values in our anthology. We look forward to reading your submission.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
- We accept electronic submissions to online submissions manager
- Submission fee $15, payable through the online submission manager. (We know. We don’t like submission fees either, but all fees go toward the cost of printing so that we can make this happen).
- Online deadline: November 15, 2012
- Accepting original writing and artwork, all genres.
- Include cover page with: brief bio, specific relationship to Proyecto Latina’s activities, and acknowledgments and complete publication information of works that have been previously published
- Your full name is your entry/submission title
- Your writing should be a Microsoft Word file; art should be TIFF file
- Simultaneous submissions ok provided we are notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere
- English, Spanish, and Spanglish are welcome.
MANUSCRIPT FORMAT
- Microsoft Word submissions only; use a 12-point standard typeface (e.g., Courier, Times, or similar font)
- Number all pages
- Name, mailing address, phone number and e-mail address in the top left corner of the first page
- Title and author name at top left of each succeeding page
- For fiction and novel excerpts, include word count at the top right corner of the first page
- Fiction: 4000 words maximum. Double-spaced with minimum 1-inch margins all around.
- Flash fiction to 750 words. Three stories maximum per submission.
- Experimental/hybrid/cross-genre work to 12 pages.
- Poetry: No maximum length. Up to five poems per submission. Single-spaced okay.
- Short Plays: Up to 15 pages
- Novel Excerpts: Self-contained or standalone chapters or excerpts of up to 4000 words