We accept poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art submissions from everyone regardless of age, nationality, or school affiliation, with the exception of current LUMINA staff members. We are also accepting submissions for this issue’s cover art, which is in color.
General guidelines for submissions:
- Please include a three-sentence biographical statement with your submission.
- Poets may submit up to three poems, 60 lines maximum per poem. Fiction and Nonfiction writers may submit up to two pieces, 5000 words maximum per piece.
- All submissions are read blind by a jury of Sarah Lawrence Writing MFA students.
- Previously published works will not be considered. If your work is selected by us, rights will revert to author after publication in Lumina; subsequent publishers should credit us for first appearance.
- Simultaneous submissions are considered as long as we are notified immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere. Once we have accepted a piece, we assume that it will be published by us.
- We reserve the right to publish some of the pieces of each issue on our website.
- We reserve the right to edit submissions for style, grammar, and length. Non-standard English must be integral to the idea of the piece to be considered acceptable.
- We strongly recommend that all foreign-language submissions be accompanied by an English translation.
- We reserve the right to crop, edit, or otherwise modify art submissions to meet our printer’s specifications.
Poets, writers, and artists whose work is accepted for publication will receive a free copy of the 2013 issue and an invitation to the launch party, held in conjunction with Sarah Lawrence’s annual Poetry Festival in mid-April. Good luck, and we look forward to reading your work!
The submission period is open from August 1st to November 1st.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For submissions: via submittable
Website: http://luminajournal.com/
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