Creative Nonfiction Guidelines
Please read the Sample Contract(s) - links below - before submitting work.
What is Creative Nonfiction?
Creative nonfiction is urgent, complex, intelligent, and written in a strong and distinctive voice, immersing and transporting the reader. It can come in many forms, including, but not limited to:
~ literary memoir
~ essay
~ satire and parody
~ literary diaries
~ literary journalism.
We prefer works from 1,000 to 4,000 words in length. Longer submissions must be preceded by a letter of inquiry.
We strongly advise you to let the work speak for itself. Please do not summarize or discuss your submission in the cover letter.
How to Send
Submissions will be accepted via email only - no more than one essay per submission, and no more than one submission per month.
Submissions must include all of the supplementary information in the cover letter of your submission. We delete submissions unread if the guidelines have not been followed.
We will not review any work that does not include:
Name,
Email address,
Postal address,
Short (~ 50 word) third-person biography,
Payment preference (see below).
If you wish your email address, or the URL of your personal website, to appear in Ink Pot or on this website, include that information within the text of your biography.
We no longer review written works contained within the body of emails. All manuscripts must be emailed as .doc, .rtf, or .txt attachments. No other formats are acceptable.
As the Subject line of your email, please use: CNF, Your Name, "Title", number of words.
(CNF = Creative Non-Fiction)
Example: CNF, Tom B. Blogger, "Truth of the Times." 2100 wds
Send all submissions to inkpot@veryfast.biz. They will be routed to the Creative Non-Fiction editor.
Payment
Stipends are paid by your choice of ONE of the following:
~ Cash: $20 (CNF)
~ Two copies of the issue of Ink Pot in which your work appears.
~ "Gift Option": ONE copy of Ink Pot containing your work (giving the other copy back to Lit Pot Press; thus helping to reduce costs).
Contract
This outlines your rights and agreements regarding publication by Ink Pot. If your work is accepted, you are required to sign this contract before the work can be published.
Ink Pot Contract for Creative Nonfiction
Viewing/printing the contract requires Adobe Reader; if you do not have it, you can get it here, free.
Upon notification of acceptance of your work, you should print out a copy of the applicable contract, fill in the appropriate blanks, sign it, and send it to:
Lit Pot Press, Inc. 3909 Reche Rd. #96,
Fallbrook, CA 92028
We will send an executed copy of the signature page back to you upon receipt.
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