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Back Issues We regard the first and second issues of II as “proto-Chimaera” issues. « Issue 2« Issue 1« II the Second« II the FirstPlease also look in on The Chimaera’s insalubrious parent, The Shit Creek Review. If you have had work accepted and would like to send a recorded reading, please see our voice recording FAQ. Selection for Cover Page rotation
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Submissionsfor the September 2008 issueSubmissions for the September 2008 Issue of The Chimaera may be sent now. Deadline: August 1. Please read the General Submission Guidelines first (below). Do not send sound files with submissions; you will have the option of sending them for any accepted poems, after acceptance. We publish verse and prose in serious and lighter vein on a range of topics. Philosophical, confessional, satirical, polemics, speculation, pastiche, essays, reviews, fiction... you name it. We’ll publish anything that interests us if we think it will interest our readers too. For The Chimaera Issue 4, due out in late September 2008, our usual feature theme section will this time be more of a feature mode. We want multum in parvo (much in little), work characterised by brevity and economy of effect. Don’t just think haiku and microfiction; there are many routes to multum in parvo. Contributions do not even, necessarily, have to be ultra-short: we want poems and prose pieces that impress us with their ratio of content to length. Good sonnets with no padding will qualify. Short stories (even if not short-short) where every word tells will qualify. How much can you say in a limited space? Issue 4 will also, as usual, include a section with a miscellany of verse and prose in various styles and on various themes. Submissions are invited for this general section as well. We still want to publish some longer poems and some essays and fiction. However, in the interest of keeping the overall volume down this time, we intend to be very selective — a limited number of pages will be available for the more expansive work. Please read all the guidelines before submitting. Other things being equal we are more likely to accept work that is easier for us to prepare for publication. Possible submission routes, in order of preference:
You will notice that we include authors’ sound files with some poetry. If we accept your poetry, we will ask if you would like to send one or more sound files. (Some technical notes are available which might be useful if you are new to voice recording.) Please do NOT send any sound files with initial submisssions. Send your best 1–5 poems, or one or more prose pieces, indicating with each whether you are submitting for multum in parvo or the general section. Although we are primarily a text-based literary and general electronic magazine, artists are invited to send in image submissions relating to the Chimaera and other fabulous beasts. Submissions for The Chimaera Issue 4 must be received by August 1, 2008. E-mail submissions: editor@the-chimaera.com General Submission Guidelines
Formatting: Line BreaksIf you copy your text into the body of a mail message, please check that all your line breaks are showing and correct on the screen before you send. When typing poems in Word or another word processor, please try to make each new line after the first with a line break rather than a paragraph break. In Word and most other programs, use Shift+Enter instead of Enter. The difference might not be obvious unless you use your Word or other program’s controls to make non-printing characters visible, but if you can avoid using paragraph breaks except where you truly need a paragraph break, you will help reduce the editors’ work. When we convert the text for the Web, a paragraph in (say) Word becomes a (spaced) paragraph in HTML, and if each of your lines is a separate paragraph these then have to be changed. Basically, a paragraph will have space after it. Either make a single paragraph of the whole poem — with a double line break at the end of each stanza, strophe or other spaced division — or make a separate paragraph for each such division. Other Formatting IssuesPreferably, put the whole text in one font (say, Times) and keep any title or subhead formatting simple. Avoid beginning each prose paragraph with an indent (string of spaces or tab). That will only make extra work for us in removing them, since it is not our paragraphing style. But it’s helpful if you block-indent a whole quoted passage of prose or poetry. Put one space (not two) after each period, comma or semicolon. For footnotes or endnotes, avoid using Word’s special footnoting/endnoting system, which is hard to convert. Just put (1) or whatever in the text and a correspondingly numbered note at the end. Where you want a dash in the text, insert a double hyphen or use Word’s AutoReplace feature to insert an actual em dash. Editorial Practice and House StyleThe Editors will endeavour to preserve authors’ indents (in poetry lines), strophe breaks, step-breaks, bold and italic style, and use of upper-case and lower-case letters. Authors’ font choices will not be preserved — unless they happen to coincide with the fonts chosen for the Web pages. Your British or Australian or Canadian or American spelling will remain. We may edit for consistency in minor typographical details such as em-dashes, en-dashes, quotation marks, and the placement of punctuation inside or outside closing quotes. In these matters, practice varies somewhat from publisher to publisher and country to country. With readers and contributors from all over, we won’t be able to match what everyone was taught as correct or normal, so we’ll probably just do what’s correct or normal for us. Our standard style for quotes is to use typographer’s double quotation marks, reserving single quotation marks for the occasional quote-within-quote requirement. Our standard style for em dashes is to set them with a space before and after, because this better suits the fonts we are specifying. |
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