Thank you for your interest in submitting your work to Black Lantern Publishing. Please read the below guidelines carefully before submitting your work.
We have recently changed when we are accepting submissions.
Please note that these guidelines have been recently revised. As of August 1, 2010, we will be closed to submissions. Please note that as of this time, we do not have a set date to reopen our submissions, as Black Lantern is undergoing some new and improved changes, though hope to begin accepting submissions again in 2011. At that time, please refer to our revised submission dates prior to submitting your work.
Writers
Short Stories
We accept
short fiction works (2,500 words or less) of all varieties, but particularly enjoy works with well-rounded characters, concise plots, and lasting impressions. We accept works of fantasy, magic realism, mystery, and some horror (though please don't send us gore). Generally, we do not publish stories with extreme profanity, unless they are exceptionally well written. At this time, we do not publish nonfiction works, reviews, plays, etc.
We do our best to respond personally to each submission, however, we are a growing publishing company and must ask that you be patient with response times. Please allow
at least three months response time before querying about the status of your submission.
Please submit your work to our online submissions at
blacklanternsubmissions@gmail.com and direct your queries to
Rebecca Huggins, Editor-in-Chief. In the subject line, please label your work "submission" and in the body of your email, include a breif biography (50 words max.) about yourself, including any previous publishing experience. For shorter works, please copy and paste your text within the message itself. For longer works, you may send attachments in the form of word documents or .pdf files
only. Please submit
only one piece at a time for consideration. We do consider simultaneous submissions, however, please inform us immediately if your work has been accepted elsewhere.
Poetry
We do accept poetry, and have published some exceptional poets in the past. For poetry, send
at most three poems per submission for consideration. Do not send additional submissions until your work has been accepted. We do read each and every submission with the utmost care, so we ask that our writers limit their the number of pieces they submit at a time, so that we may dedicate as much time as possible to each individual piece.
If Your Piece is Accepted
If we decide that your piece is a good fit for Black Lantern, than we will inform you personally via email within a three months time frame. Generally, we will notify you in those emails when your piece will be available for viewing. Please understand that it takes a great deal of time to review, edit, and prepare each piece for publication. If you feel that your piece requires additional corrections to the ones that have already been suggested by the Editor-in-Chief
after its publication, please note that
these requests for changes will not be made. We expect our writers to submit only the very best, most polished work in their collection, and requests for changes after publication is a very time consuming task, with the amount of new submissions we receive every day. Requests for changes
prior to publication
should be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief at blacklanternpublishing@gmail.com. Please do not send requests for changes via our submission page, as these emails will be disregarded.
At this time, we are not accepting paper submissions.
Please send only your very best, most polished work for consideration.
Artists
We accept art work of all varieties, however we do not publish photography or sequential artwork at this time. Please do not submit art work that is pornographic, as it will immediately be rejected. We seek art that is authentic and elicits a response from its viewer. We eagerly seek works that border on the fantastical, or that demonstrate an original perception of a subject.
For Online Submissions: Please send an email to
blacklanternartsubmissions@gmail.com. In the subject line, please label your work "art submission" and in the body of your email, include a breif biography (50 words max.) about yourself, including any previous publishing experience you may have. Please send your piece as an attachment in JPEG format only.
For Paper Submissions: Please send a query letter, in which you include a brief biography about yourself including any previous publishing experience you may have, an SASE for our response, and your piece to:
Attn: Walker Huggins, Art Director
Black Lantern Publishing
41 Tulip Grove Cr. #4
Bristol, TN 37620
Please
do not send originals copies of your work. We can not be held accountable for lost or damaged material.
Rights
Contributors retain all publication & serial rights subsequent to those permissions granted to appear here.
Publication
Black Lantern Publishing currently publishes four, online issue per year. Our current publication schedule is as follows:
Winter Issue (December-February)
Spring Issue (March-May)
Summer Issue (June-August)
Fall Issue (September-November)
We also publish a yearly "best of" print version of our journal, which includes a compilation of our artists and writers, selected by our editor-in-chief, Rebecca Huggins. All works which are accepted for publication by Black Lantern will appear in our online journal, however, only selected works will appear in the printed journal. For more information regarding our printed journal, please click
here.
Please refer to our Open to Submissions page to see when we are accepting submissions.
Payment
At this time, we do not pay our contributors.
