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What a busy winter it has been! In
Cuba we had a most enjoyable time participating in the
workshops, readings and also attended the Cuban International
Book Fair. Yes, even the Stellar Showcase Journal was presented
and added to the libraries.
No sooner returned, it was time to
organized, promote and have Graham’s poetry book launch. We had
a terrific turn out and response! Now we are looking forward to
touring with Graham’s book.
I had brought my files and laptop to work on
the journal in Cuba, but the time factor
did not allow me to get any serious work in that regards done.
Well, that’s partly my excuse for the journal being late this
month. :-)
Now, on to another matter.
The submission to the
journal has been fantastic! However, I read some excellent
poems that could have been added to the journal. But,
one of the problem I had this month is TIME. How does time
affect that?
Here are a
few tips that may be useful, especially to new submitters.
From my own experience, these are some of the situations that I
have been running into and unfortunately, this month I didn’t
have the time to e-mail and ask for corrections and / or
reformat submissions.
There is a
submission guideline
on the website to
help you get your poetry accepted and published.
Below are a few more TIPS:
A) Was
the poem written in ALL CAPITALS? That’s a ‘no-no’. Check the
guidelines.
B ) Proof your work thoroughly for typographical and
grammatical errors. Work that is
badly miss-spelt or in need of severe grammatical or
punctual corrections, basically
will end up in “Unacceptable”
file.
C ) Do NOT cut-and-paste from your word processing program
into your e-mail
message. Doing so can garble your
work and often produces strange symbols that
detract from the editors' impressions
of your work.
D ) Does the poem have a title and is it appropriate? If it's
worthy of being considered,
it’s worthy of a title.
E) Sending your work with NO ADDRESS. Where do we mail your
published work?
NOTE: Bear in
mind, if you’re poetry is not in this issue, we do keep your
poetry over
to be considered for the next issue. That’s also in the
guideline page.
Take care and have a great
Spring!
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