Submission Info

When submitting your work, we have a few guidelines and rules.

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We seek to publish everyone, but specifically would like to encourage voices that are considered marginalized or minority-based within our community. We also encourage younger voices between the ages of high school to college level grades. We are a privately funded journal and are a non-paying market: therefore, we reserve the right to publish work based on literary skill and merit and not solely on connections to Iredell County although that is a major cornerstone of the journal. If you would like to submit:

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• Please submit literary work in a Word Document file (docx) with no more than three pieces in your overall submission. Use a sans-serif 12 point font. You should include a title and the piece and a cover letter is optional but can be included in the body of your email. All three pieces - whether they are poetry, flash fiction or flash non-fiction - should be included in one document: if you have three poems they should all be in the same file.

• Poems should be able to fit on one page. Flash-fiction or Non-fiction should be up to 1000 words total, though you may also query us for longer pieces.

• Please submit art work in a .JPEG or PDF format. If submitting more than one artwork/photograph please attach them in your email as separate files up to three complete pieces.

• Please self-censor. Although we believe in the First Amendment ,and do not want to infringe on anyone's rights, we will not publish gratuitous violence, sexual content, or -isms (racism, sexism or any discernable hate speech toward a minority or Othered demographic group). If you have questions about whether your content is acceptable you can preface your piece with a cover letter giving a brief synopsis of it and we can email you in reply.

• All queries or submissions should be sent to redclayjournalsvl@gmail.com within the above guidelines.