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Deadlines For Submission
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April/May
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29 March 2008
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June/July
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29 May 2008
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Aug/September
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29 July 2008
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October/November
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29 August 2008
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December/January
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29 November 2008
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February/March
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29 December 2008
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Payment
Unfortunately we are unable to offer payment at this time due to the cancellation of our Arts Council Grant.
Rough Guide To Presentation
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Short stories, features, memoirs, critical articles
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No more than 3,000 words
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Reviews
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Generally no longer than 2,000 words
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Poetry
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No longer than 800 lines
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Form of submission
Contributions to the magazine in literature and the arts are both welcome and invited. We do prefer e-mail. Please send your submissions to admin@thelondonmagazine.net. All postal submissions must be accompanied by a stamped and addressed envelope. Sufficient international reply-paid coupons must be enclosed, if work is required to be returned. In general, a mimimum of 3 coupons is necessary for type-scripts of 5 A5 pages.
When commissioned, submissions should be sent by e-mail as a .doc file attached to a covering message. No file should be larger than 500k. If your work is larger, please compress it with a package such as WinZip or similar. We also accept floppy disks and CD-ROMs. Images should be submitted in .TIFF format, maximum size A5 @ 600dpi. Please note: there will be NO colour reproduction in the magazine apart from the front cover.
If you use a Mac computer, please ensure that you send a file which can be opened and read by our PC equipment. If you send a floppy disk, you will need to ensure that it is formatted to be read by a PC. There are usually no difficulties in reading CDs.
Format of reviews
Please put the following information in the order below at the top of your review:
- Name you wish to appear under
- Head title you would like for your review
- Title of book being reviewed
- Name of author
- Publisher
- Number of pages and cover price (do not convert foreign currencies to sterling)
Rough guide to textual conventions
- Single inverted commas for all speech marks unless. further quotations within direct speech.
- Single inverted commas for short quotations.
- Longer quotations indented by 1/2 inch.
- Ordinary paragraph breaks to be made with a single carriage return - not line spaces.
- All publications to be referred to in italics.
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