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Submission
Guidelines
Downtown
Brooklyn: a Journal of Writing
is the literary magazine of the English Department at the
Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. A new issue appears
at the beginning of each fall semester, and the editorial
staff then accepts new submissions from September 1 until
February 1 for the next issue. We read & respond to submissions
in batches as they arrive.
Watch the English Department blog (The
Longest Island) for the next call for submissions;
for announcements of upcoming events, including the annual
reading by contributors to the latest issue; and for news
about the publication of each new issue.
We
accept submissions from all students, faculty & staff
at the Brooklyn Campus. This includes alumni, as well as persons
formerly employed in any capacity at the Brooklyn Campus.
Submissions
are also welcome from Visiting Writers who teach in the Creative
Writing MFA program and from writers who come to campus as
part of the English Department's Voices of the Rainbow Reading
Series.
Please
be selective & limit your submission to ten, single-spaced
pages or the equivalent of poetry &/or fiction &/or
creative non-fiction. Of course, you may submit fewer than
ten pages. On a separate page, include your phone number,
mailing address & e-mail address, as well as a brief biographical
statement (see the "bio notes" section of the latest
issue for ideas about what to include).
The
best way to send your submission is attached to an e-mail
sent to this address:
wayne.berninger@liu.edu
If
for some reason you are unable to send your submission via
e-mail, then save it as an MS Word document on CD & place
it in Wayne Berninger's faculty mailbox in the English Department
(Humanities Building, fourth floor).
You
will receive notification that we have received your submission.
If you don't hear back from us within a few days, then please
try again. If all else fails, drop by in person to see Wayne
Berninger (Humanities Building, Room 454).
We
cannot return electronic files or CDs, so please be sure to
keep a copy of your submission.
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