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Deadlines For Submission | March/April | 1 January 2009
| | May/June | 1 March 2009-extended to April 5 for 2009
| | July/August | 1 May 2009
| | September/October | 1 July 2009
| | November/December | 1 September 2009
| | January/February | 1 December 2009
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Payment Unfortunately we are unable to offer payment at this time due to the cancellation of our Arts Council Grant. Rough Guide To Presentation | Short stories, features, memoirs, critical articles | No more than 2,500 words | | Reviews | Generally no longer than 1,800 words | | Poetry | No longer than 800 lines |
Form of submission We are currently having a reading break in order to process a backlog of poetry and short fiction submissions, and will be accepting submissions again on April 1 2009. However, we are still accepting ideas for art reviews, memoir pieces, fiction and poetry reviews. We do prefer e-mail. Please send your submissions to admin@thelondonmagazine.net. All postal submissions must be accompanied by a stamped and addressed envelope. Sufficient international reply-paid coupons must be enclosed, if work is required to be returned. In general, a mimimum of 3 coupons is necessary for type-scripts of 5 A5 pages. When commissioned, submissions should be sent by e-mail as a .doc file attached to a covering message. No file should be larger than 500k. If your work is larger, please compress it with a package such as WinZip or similar. We also accept floppy disks and CD-ROMs. Images should be submitted in .TIFF format, maximum size A5 @ 600dpi. Please note: there will be NO colour reproduction in the magazine apart from the front cover. If you use a Mac computer, please ensure that you send a file which can be opened and read by our PC equipment. If you send a floppy disk, you will need to ensure that it is formatted to be read by a PC. There are usually no difficulties in reading CDs. Format of reviews Please put the following information in the order below at the top of your review: - Name you wish to appear under
- Head title you would like for your review
- Title of book being reviewed
- Name of author
- Publisher
- Number of pages and cover price (do not convert foreign currencies to sterling)
Rough guide to textual conventions - Single inverted commas for all speech marks unless. further quotations within direct speech.
- Single inverted commas for short quotations.
- Longer quotations indented by 1/2 inch.
- Ordinary paragraph breaks to be made with a single carriage return - not line spaces.
- Section breaks only to be marked with a line space.
- All publications to be referred to in italics.
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