Welcomes Submissions from Around the World: Painted Bride Quarterly (Issue 85 'Displacement' | international)

Painted Bride Quarterly, established in Philadelphia in 1973, is a community-based, independent, non-profit literary magazine published quarterly online and annually in print, making it accessible to a broad and diverse audience. This hybrid format allows for immediacy, accessibility and permanence simultaneously. The book allows us to transcend any questions of legitimate publication for authors, while serving our contributors with the timely, and easily shared, publication of their work online. PBQ does not limit itself to specific regions or genres, and we publish poetry, fiction, and prose from emerging and established authors from across the country and around the world. The combination of PBQ’s volunteer editorial board and ever-changing student staff makes its published voice unique.

We are now accepting submissions for Print Annual 6 (Issue 85/Displacement, Issue86/Unthemed, Issue 87/Costume); more information on themed issues. For info not found here, e-mail pbq@drexel.edu

ISSUE # 85: DISPLACEMENT

• Come here. No, go away. You belong. You don’t. You’re welcome. Or are you?
• The casual trip sheds light on your roots, or lack. Forced emigration is a 21st century surprise. Diaspora. Displacement.
• PBQ encourages submissions that explore coming and going, belonging and longing. We seek work that dwells, that moves.

ISSUE # 87: COSTUME

• Blink: I know who you are, (or so we’d like to think).
• PBQ explores the semantics of style in its upcoming issue. Style is decipherable, interpretable, a sign signifying self. The concept of dress makes us mindful of duality, identity, conformity and a promise of transformation. We’re looking for poetry, prose, fiction; fashion us material that matters.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

Painted Bride Quarterly accepts up to 5 poems, fiction up to 5000 words, and essays and reviews up to 3000 words, in any genre or school (occasional exceptions are made.)

All artwork: photographs, paintings, etchings, lithographs and line drawings are now accepted in black & white and color for publication on our website, and in black & white only for our print annual. If submitting art work for our website, please do so via pbq@drexel.edu. We appreciate photoshop files (psd.), or jpgs; size 1024×768.

PBQ requests that upon notification of acceptance, the work(s) be submitted on a 3.5″ floppy disc (any format), Zip disc or CD, or electronically in .rtf format. Discs will be returned if accompanied by self-addressed, stamped envelope. A SHORT bio should also be included.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries: pbq@drexel.edu

For submissions: via submittable

Website: http://pbq.drexel.edu/pbq/

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