Guidelines

Closed to submissions for the 2010 calendar year.
Please check back in November when we will open for 2011 submissions. 

We accept poetry, short stories or essays up to 500 words. Payment is $10, on acceptance.

Writers outside the USA: We pay by PayPal only.

No reprints.

At the top of your submission, please provide:
   ~ your name
   ~ your mailing address
   ~ your email address
   ~ project  
   ~ word count 

Capitalize title. All submissions must have a title.

Please confirm we've received your entire submission by including the words, The End.

You may paste your text within the body of an email or send it as a .pdf, .doc, .docx or .rtf. We do not accept any other formats.

You are now ready to submit your work.
(If clicking this link doesn't automatically open your email, send your work to manuscripts--at--readingwriters.com AFTER you've replaced the --at-- with the @ sign. Subject: CHALKBOARD submission.)

Response time: approximately two weeks.

If accepted, you grant ReadingWriters, publisher of The Verb writing ezine, First Electronic Rights. Simply put, this means you allow us to print your work first on the Internet. It will remain in The Verb archives until you ask us to remove it. You retain all other rights.