we want writers, not faux-philosophers.

we don't want your pseudo-intellectual quasi-conceptual stories, or any of your half-baked philosophical monologues.

we want writers who are good readers.

we want writers who are good writers as well.

we are not looking for high-brow, low-brow, no-brow literature.

we are looking for good writing. period.

no more stories about smokers in diners or on trains.

no more literary masturbation about the change of seasons.

short stories

novel excerpts or chapters

creative non-fiction

creative essays

memoirs

sherman alexie

john cheever

ernest hemingway

raymond carver

vladimir nabokov

jhumpa lahiri

amy tan

thom jones

david sedaris

timothy o'brien

we like chuck palahniuk. just not his nut-hugging fan boys.

junot diaz

katherine dunn

hubert selby jr.

kurt vonnegut

philip roth

isaac asimov

ray bradbury

george orwell

we like kerouac and burroughs and bukowski, but it's already been done.

zora neale hurston

james joyce

william faulkner

virginia woolf

russians. because they gave us vodka. duh.

franz kafka

john steinbeck

d.h. lawrence

and plenty more we're too tired to get into.

so if you really want to know what we think, send it. we can't pay you. yet. but we can give your story a home.

mail to AppearsAsian@yahoo.com

'XPEHb! submission' in the subject line

manuscript must be attached to email

body of email includes the following:
- name
- email address
- title of story
- word count

previously published work accepted (for now)

simultaneous submissions accepted, but let us know ASAP if it gets picked up elsewhere

manuscript must be in 12 point courier new font

microsoft word document

we expect from our poets what we expect from our writers of prose.

we also expect you to read poetry. this might seem foolish to you, but it's amazing how many people we run into that try to write poetry without ever reading any.

we like poems which mess with punctuation & grammar- as long as it's done on purpose. yes, we can tell the difference.

we are sick of poems about the beach & the train.

poetry

prose poetry

writing that behaves unexpectedly

E E Cummings

Oscar Wilde

Marina Tsetaeva

Don Marquis

Sylvia Plath

Li Po

Anne Carson

Buson

Pablo Neruda

Issa

Elizabeth Bishop

Aleksandr Pushkin

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Dylan Thomas

Roethke

Baudelaire

Octavio Paz

Wallace Stevens

Czeslaw Milosz

Basho

Kenneth Koch

Allen Ginsberg

Kim Addonzio

Rainer Marie Rilke

Sappho

Denise Levertov

Louise Gluck

Robert Creeley

Inger Christensen

mail to tanistanis@gmail.com

subject line should read 'XPEHb! poetry submission'

submit 3-5 poems at once

poems should be attached to email

body of email should include the following:
- name
- email address
- short bio (website, previous publishers, etc)
- titles of poems

previously published work accepted (for now)

simultaneous submissions are accepted, but let us know ASAP if it gets picked up elsewhere

poems should be in rich text (rtf) or plain text (txt) format

include all poems in a single document

we want quality.

we want originality. no more dull sunsets, please.

mirror self-portraits and views of one's feet are okay though, we'll never get tired of those.

we want pieces that resonate. that provoke. that tell stories.

mail to tchaikovskiy@hotmail.com

submit 12-15 images in TIFF (saved for PC) or JPEG format.

size does matter: each image must be at least 600 pixels on the smallest side.

try not to use compression too much. when compression is overdone, clarity disappears, you get digital noise, and lumps/blocks of pixels appear out of nowhere. we hate that!

you may either send the files as attachments, or upload them to the web and send us the link.

if we like your work, we will also need a brief bio (3-5 sentences written in third person), and a title for your exhibit.

if you have an online portfolio, be sure to include the link.