submission guidelines

reading period

October 1 through January 31, 2008. Do not submit more than five poems at a time.

prose limits

1,500 words for essays and fiction. 800 words for book reviews. Please query us if your work falls outside these guidelines.

• basalt DOES NOT accept simultaneous submissions, E-mail submissions, or previously published work.

• Please include sufficient postage for the return of your work.

• Payment in copies.

• All copyrights revert to the author.

Guidelines

Although we are open to all submissions of poetry, what we are especially interested in considering for our next issue are short forms of lyrical prose, works that cross genres, collaborations, and the confluence of image and text. If you have a short, insightful, non-academic essay about any of these forms, we’d also be happy to consider it.

We also welcome literary translations of modern and contemporary poetry or short (500 words) prose from writers whose work is under-represented in English. If you are submitting translations, please include the text in the original language and permission to translate if the work is still under international copyright. Such work must be accompanied by a signed publication release from the author or literary executor.