Eyeshot has been
internationally
accessible since 1999. Fiction, photographs, rants, reviews,
links, essays,
and other unclassifiables are accepted and declined. We pay in
dissemination
and validation, however meager.
Review of stories received from random people via e-mail is
our volunteer
work. It's how we try to make the world a better place. Or if
not "better"
than at least a little less shitty thanks to free
international dispersal
of odd and hopefully semi-humorous or at least unexpectedly
sidewinding
displays of language. As such, Eyeshot receives and
reviews electronic (ie, e-mailed) submissions sent to submit
at eyeshot.net.
If you'd like to send long breathless love letters; antique
postcards;
old mixed tapes discovered in a box in your parents' basement
you made
when a post-adolescent depressive; ironic garments for a 6–12
month-old
baby, particularly black sleeveless/legless onesies), the
old-fashioned
mailing address is BOX 18009 Phila PA 19147.
Some further ideas for those enticed to submit: Please
include boatloads
of biographical information and links to every possible
previous publication
and the name of every professor you ever heard speak or slept
with at your
prestigious NYC MFA program you'll soon graduate from +$80K in
debt, and
-- very important! -- make sure to mention how many times
you've been nominated
for a Pushcart Prize. We would also like to see links to most
if not all
of your social media accounts, esp. Goodreads, Twitter,
Uganda, Tumblr,
Whatnot, and Facebook. If you would like to start a fundraiser
thing to raise money for a bribe to grease our editorial
palms, please
make sure to do that well in advance of your submission.
Specific Recommendations & Restrictions
Once there was a time when asked about submission guidelines
we consulted
the many sages and they all replied, "Cows never roam from
pastures with
no fences." We can't deny the wisdom of the sages. And so,
there shan't
be submission guidelines. EXCEPT, to recognize that some
people might want
to know what we tend to post without bothering to browse the
archive, we are now happy to offer somewhat explicit
recommendations:
DO NOT SEND POETRY unless (1) it's disguised as prose, (2)
it's totally
nasty & perverted, or (3) you're an
Egyptian.
DO NOT SEND ANYTHING if your e-mail address includes the
words writer,
write,
poet,
or anything similar. If you are under 17 years of age, it's
OK. But otherwise,
please do not submit.
PLEASE TRY NOT TO SEND whimsical pieces that are loaded with
dialogue
and lots of lame pop-cultural references (we prefer
mythological, literary,
art-historical, and/or misanthropomorphophagical
allusions).
PLEASE TRY NOT TO SEND something about an emotionally
cathartic moment
from your childhood (unless it involves dead clowns).
PLEASE TRY NOT TO SEND some small, relatively unimaginative,
essayistic
piece about deli meats or chapstick or dentists.
PLEASE TRY NOT TO SEND anything that anyone would ever
describe as "punk
rock."
PLEASE TRY NOT TO SEND anything if your favorite author is
Bukowski.
Nothing against the man, but if he's your favorite
author, please
send your submission elsewhere. Again, we have no real problem
with Bukowski's
writing whatsoever, but if you're all about him, that is, if
you write
like him way more than you write like yourself, please realize
you're invited
to do two things: (1) pray for a big ol' rainstorm of sweet,
sweet whisky,
and (2) insert and piston your skinny ashen thingy (assuming
you're a boy)
into and out of the hole in the center of your collector's
edition DVD
of Barfly.
PLEASE TRY NOT TO SEND anything that you would call "flash
fiction."
Short pieces are fine to send, but not if you refer to them as
"flash fiction."
We seem to have an unspecifiable problem with the term.
PLEASE REALIZE you can send any of the above but we won't
accept them
unless they're really funny and/or wonderful. We tend
to like things
that are denser (not so quick to include space breaks between
sentences),
that are somewhat elusive and inventive and overblown
languagewise and
not-so-sane aesthetically. OK? That's a hint intended to save
us all time.
But then again, we are always open to reading anything you
want to send.
It may seem like there are now some fences, but they're
imaginary -- if
you don't want them to be there, that's fine - think of them
as suggested
fences.
PLEASE REALIZE that
Thanks
and
Sorry and Good Luck: Rejection Letters from the Eyeshot
Outbox
may prove an invaluable resource for prospective submitters
interested
in discerning our editorial tendencies and taste.
PLEASE REALIZE we are no longer encouraging visitors to send
stuff that's
plagiarized or transcripts of instant messages, although we
did in the
past (before folks started using gchats in fiction,
FYI).
Again, if you would like to send physical objects ($$$ or
gifts or small
cat toys or ironic T-shirts for toddlers (size 5T) or
books/music to potentially
review), our mailing address is:
Eyeshot, PO Box 18009, Phila, PA 19147
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