Literary

Submission periods: February 1-June 15 (Fall/Winter issue) and August 1-December 15 (Spring/Summer issue)

Send submissions to editor.sblaam@gmail.com

Please expect to wait up to two months after our deadlines (June 15 and December 15) for a publication decision. Occasionally with e-mail, there are technical difficulties. We cannot be responsible for delay or loss of submissions. To check on the status of your submission, please send an inquiry to editor.sblaam@gmail.com.

We accept poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction, and memoir.

Dual Literary and Photography/Art submissions (i.e. poetry paired with artwork) will only be considered for publication if they can be published separately as well as paired together.

Poetry: we accept a maximum of four poems submitted per issue.

Prose: we accept a maximum of two prose works submitted per issue. Any length up to 5,000 words is acceptable. We do not publish novels or serial excerpts (unless the excerpt can stand alone).

Online submissions should be sent as an email attachment to editor.sblaam@gmail.com, either in Word (.doc), Pages (.pages), another current word processor format, or Rich Text format (.rtf). We do not accept Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) or older formats such as Word Perfect (.wp) or Microsoft Works (.wps).

We do not accept submissions (literary or image) via Google Docs or any other such method, only as email attachments or, if necessary, embedded in the email text.

We vastly prefer electronic submissions. Hard copy submissions (typed, only: Times New Roman, 12 point, 1.5 spaced) may be mailed to

SBLAAM
36 Louisiana Ave
Asheville, NC 28806

Hard copy submissions are not returnable and become the property of the Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine (SBLAAM). Any hard copy submission must include an email address at which we can reach you.

In the body of your email, or in a written note if submitting via hard copy, please include your name, e-mail address, home address (optional), phone number (optional), personal website url (optional) and a short (50 words or less) biography (if you wish us to include one if we publish your work). You may also include a cover letter if desired. All published material will be appropriately accredited. (Let us know if you wish accreditation to differ from your legal name.)

All work must be original, previously unpublished, and in English. We accept simultaneous submissions, but please inform us promptly and withdraw your work if it is accepted elsewhere. We do not accept revised versions of work previously submitted to us, whether accepted for publication or not.

By submitting your work, you grant us first serial rights, the right to archive your work online for an indefinite period of time, and the right to nominate your work for awards such as the Pushcart Prize. Once the issue featuring your work has been published, you are free to republish your work as you wish, online and/or in print. Once published, all rights revert to you, the author.

We are not currently a paying market. Regrettably, because of the volume of submissions, we cannot give individual feedback.