The Chimaera: an online miscellany of poetry and prose.
The Chimaera: a literary miscellany

 

Please be sure to read our current Submission requirements before sending us anything, whether by this route or by email.


Back Issues

We regard the first and second issues of II as “proto-Chimaera” issues.

« Issue 2
« Issue 1
« II the Second
« II the First
 

Please also look in on The Chimaera’s insalubrious parent, The Shit Creek Review.

 Feature theme for Issue 4 

The theme, or mode, for Issue 4’s feature section will be multum in parvo (more in less) — see the main text on the right for further detail. You can submit verse and/or prose that qualifies. 

We also invite submissions of general poetry and prose, for which the topics are open, though the General section is also likely to be slimmer this time.  


Selection for Cover Page rotation
Each accepted poem of no more than 20 lines will automatically be considered for inclusion in the Poem of the Day rotation on our site Cover Page. Each included poem will be on the cover page for a day, then again after a set interval of days (depending on how many poems we have in the rotation set), and so on until the next issue goes up. For the duration of Issue 2, there are 15 poems in the cover-page set.

   

Submit Online

This online form submission method has advantages and limitations. It works well for shorter submissions without too many complexities of formatting. You will receive a confirming email which will show your formatted submission exactly as received (provided you’re set up to read HTML mail, otherwise you’ll see the plain-text version).

THE CHIMAERA: Online Submission Form

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Copy the text from your Word document (or other source) and paste it into the box below. Line and paragraph breaks will be preserved (if not, you can adjust with the Enter/Delete keys) but formatting such as italics and bold is not preserved. If there are just a few instances of such formatting, you can reapply it in the form, using basic HTML tags. (Use the link below for information on bsic formatting.) Do not insert HTML code for paragraph or line breaks; it should be sufficient to ensure that breaks are visually correct, with a double break between stanzas, strophes or paragraphs.

It won’t matter whether your poem title or other heading is in bold type or not. And you shouldn’t need to worry about special characters like accented letters, em dashes, or curly apostrophes and quotes. If you’ve used them, and you paste your text in below, they should come through fine. If you haven’t used them, we’ll fix those details for any submission we accept.
   
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Brief author’s biographical note —
up to about 60 words in third-person style:

(Formatting is available as above.)

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