A minimum of three, and maximum of ten, spreads may be submitted from sketchbooks. If submitted as a series, no more than 10 pieces, please. Visual submissions: (illustrations, drawings, prints, photographs, sketchbooks, etcetera) may not exceed 5 pieces.We encourage you to keep writing and hope your work finds a home elsewhere. Many thanks to all who have submitted in the past. PLEASE NOTE: We regret that whimperbang is no longer accepting submissions of plays as we do not feel equipped to judge the merit of most drama pieces. Play submissions: should not exceed 5,000 words.Prose (fiction, non-fiction) submissions: should not exceed 5,000 words.Poetry submissions: may not exceed 5 poems.Please include a short biographical paragraph with your submissions, including your name and place of residence, email address (for our records), publications and any other relevant information.Submissions may be made either as attachments, or reside within the body of your email (copy & paste).Submissions not sent in this format will be refused. Submissions may be submitted via lightning-fast email: Email “Subject” must read “Submission”.If you decide to republish the piece elsewhere, we ask that you cite whimperbang as a place of previous publication. At the time of publication, all rights revert back to the author.whimperbang cannot offer payment at this time.New submissions may not be made until you have heard back from us regarding old ones.Please do not send previously published works. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please inform us. Simultaneous submissions must be indicated as such in the submission email.All literary and visual genres will be considered. Whimperbang invites the submission of serious, directed artistic expressions that reflect or comment upon today’s world. Whimperbang is an online journal of artistic commentary, published three times a year. To those of you who may have submitted and have not yet heard back, we thank you for your patience while our small team sifts through it all.įor everyone else, please see our “ Submission Guidelines” below. Her poetry and fiction have been recognized by a number of publications and organizations, including Rust + Moth, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Emerge Literary Journal, FreezeRay Poetry, South Florida Poetry Journal, The Adroit Prizes, and the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.Whimperbang is reviewing visual and literary submissions for issue 27, to be published in August 2023. Melissa Tolentino currently lives in the DC metro area. When he walks away with his empty bucket. On the beach and the cut of his voice when he says good girl. The tides, and how she learned to sing listening to the waves He comes to the pool after aquarium hours, after the pod sleeps.Ī boy and beyond him, the moon. Whistleless, no ball, no hoop, no hands clapping for time,
Is a promise that he will take her to the ocean. When monkeys are born they love the first thing they see,Įyes gibbous like loneliness, like the first time lovers fit their bodies togetherĪnd realize that skeletons are made of keyholes for the bones of another. There is only himĪnd the water and his reflection in her fin. With her life so much she will eat, bounce, kiss anything And their trainers, how one can trust another
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