Submissions

With regard to SUBMITTING your work, we ask that you FIRST SEND AN EMAIL TO: coraschwartz@gmail.com

Please do not send your submission until you email us first. A paragraph or two telling us who you are, where you are and what type of work you want to submit will suffice.  You can see a sample below about what your introductory email might look like.

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Must be submitted in JPEG format. A suggestional sentence under a photo should start as:  I am submitting this photograph because it speaks to me/it says ………(see sample below to see how your submission should look.)  You can add your name with a copyright symbol next to your name or just your initials (we will know who you are if we need to send you comments we received about your work)

POETRY:
Just the  title of your poem is sufficient with your name and date at the end of the poem.  (Note: you do not have to share your name but if you do, you need to add the copyright symbol and date next to  it.)  You can also choose to just use your initials under the poem as we will know who you are and send you comments we receive about your work. See sample below regarding how your poetry submission should look.

ORIGINAL ARTWORK:
Same as above…First send us an email with your name, where you live etc.  You do not have to qualify with past rewards or recognition.  When you send us your work (in JPEG format) it is suggested that you use your name and copyright symbol or, as noted above, you can just use your initials and we will send you comments that we get about your work.  (See sample below regarding how your art work submission should look.

SHORT STORIES / BOOKS:
As above, please send us an email first telling us a little about yourself etc.  Sending books or short stories is a little tricky because our system will limit your submission to a total of 750 words/3 double spaced pages. Our experience has been that when you send a book to an editor, she or he might read the first two pages and know immediately if this is a book they want to read or not.  We will include under STORIES/BOOKS below a sample one of my book’s first  pages so you can see what we are suggesting.  Remember that if a reader likes the first 3 pages of your book, they will ask for more.  We will email you their request and you can take it from there.  The same procedure would stand for your short story unless it happens to be a little bit longer than 3 pages. (see samples below regarding how a submission for a book introduction should look and also how a short story should look)

IMPORTANT NOTE:
We are asking you to please tell your friends, family and anyone else you deem appropriate to take a look at our website.  Our sincere hope  is that editors, art sellers and people in those fields will be reading our website and see your work.   Remember that we are not involved in any sales.  If someone is interested in your work they will email us and we will forward their email to you. You will take it from there.  Again, we are the ‘middle person’ only.   Of course, we will be advertising our website as much as possible.