Literary Agents will be reading submissions.

Can your work really make it to these top lit agents' desks?

Sure! Preliminary reading will be done by our acquiring editors, if it passes that, our Guest Assistant Editors will read it. The top 12 will be read by our special Guest Editor.

 

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If you like, also submit your work as an mp3 file.

You can record your short story or poem or essay, etc as an audio file (mono, 128Kpbs) and send it to us with your submission. If your printed work is accepted for publication, SHALLA Magazine may podcast your reading of your work.

More on Recording Submissions

 

 

Meet SHALLA Magazine's Guest Editors

(for our Blank Canvas Issue & Winter Blooms Issue)

Top Literary Agent Kelly D. Sonnack from the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency is reading submissions.

Literary Agent, Alana Lennie, of the
Lennie Literary Agency & Authors Attorney is reading submissions.

 

 

SHALLA Magazine features high quality fiction (experimental, literary, genre, multicultural, etc), poetry, essays, excerpts from screenplays, one act-plays, etc.

Although we mainly publish literary work, our submissions system is open to all forms of writing that have been previously published.

That’s right, we only like reprints. Please tell us where and when it has been published before. By submitting to SHALLA Magazine, you are guaranteeing that all rights to the work have already reverted back to you.

 

• Please include a cover letter with the following information: Full name (as you wish to be credited in the magazine), contact information, and a brief bio citing previous publications.

• Please title your email: SUBMISSIONS: “(title of your work)” –“(word count)”-"(genre)"

• You can address your submission to: Shalla DeGuzman, Editor

 

Work is first scanned by one of our acquiring editors, if it passes that phase, it goes to our guest assistant editors, if it passes that phase, it goes to one of our guest editors, if it passes that it goes to one of our editors, then to Shalla DeGuzman.

 

 

General Guidelines

 

Fiction/Non-Fiction

Including (but not limited to) short fiction, flash fiction (100-500 words), short-short (500-1,000 words), short story (1,000-10,000 words) commentary, essays, and experimental works
• Maximum length: 10,000 words

• Manuscripts should be Publish-Ready

We prefer manuscripts in block form
o This means: no paragraph indents, single-spaced with double-spacing between paragraphs
• Acceptable file formats: .doc, .rtf, .txt
o We will only accept submissions copied into the body of an email message, for works under 1,000 words
• Preferred file format: .rtf

 

Poetry

Including (but not limited to) free verse, haiku, lyric, concrete, narrative, and experimental works
• Maximum length: 1 single-spaced pages
• Acceptable file formats: .doc, .rtf, .txt
o Please send as a .rtf file.
• Preferred file format: .rtf

 

Please, no simultaneous submissions

Single Submission Only Please (No Multiple Submissions at this time)

For Definitions of Terms

 

Rights, Terms and Conditions

• By sending your writing to SHALLA Magazine, you guarantee that the work is exclusively your own, that it is a reprint and that you have the right to grant us the use of it.

• SHALLA Magazine asks for electronic, anthology, and audio/video rights. This means we may publish your work(s) in a future print issue of the magazine, and/or read it in a podcast, and/or post your reading of it in a podcast, and/or feature it in a video online.

You retain rights to your work.

• Your piece may be chosen in our guest editor's top picks and may be critiqued online. (We only post names of authors of the top best picks)

 

For Definitions of Terms

 

Compensation

If your piece is chosen, we may publish your biography on our blogs, such as: http://shalladeguzman.blogspot.com and/or ask you to be interviewed at the ShallaDeGuzman Writers Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ShalladeGuzman and/or SHALLA CHATS: http://shalladeguzman.com/shallachats.php

Also, SHALLA Magazine may be offering a Shalla Magazine Best Fiction Award to the most distinguished work of fiction as chosen by Shalla DeGuzman and our special guest editors.

 

Here's your chance to be nominated for the Pushcart Prize

SHALLA Magazine will make six nominations from our year’s publication for the Pushcart Prize. Our nomination may be any combination of poetry, short fiction, essays or self-contained portions of books — for instance, a chapter from a novel.

 

 

*note

If you have not heard from us 8 months after the reading period, please assume your submission has been lost somehow and was never received by SHALLA Magazine, and please, re-submit your work.

We look forward to reading your submissions!

 

Please email your submissions to shalla_editor@yahoo.com

Thank you.

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