Florida English
Call For Submissions

 

The staff of Florida English, the literary journal supported by the Florida College English Association and Ringling College of Art and Design, announces a call for submissions. Florida English, a quality, print journal, is published annually and highlights works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.

 

  Submission guidelines:

 

• Send up to five poems and/or one each: short story, creative nonfiction, or critical essay on both paper and IBM-compatible CD saved in Microsoft Word or RTF to the appropriate editor (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or critical essay) at:

Florida English

Department of Language and Literature

Manatee Community College,

5840 26^th Street West

Bradenton, Florida 34207. 

Include SASE with enough postage if you would like to have your manuscript returned; otherwise, submissions will be recycled. Contributors will be notified of acceptance via email.  

 

• For all submissions, please include a cover sheet and a brief bio. for the contributor’s page on both paper and IBM-compatible CD saved in Microsoft Word or RTF with your name, address, phone number, email address, institutional affiliation (if you have one), and the title(s) of your poems, story, nonfiction piece, or essay.  

 

• Because we rely on blind submission judging, do not include your name, header, or internal footnotes on any page.  

 

• Do not send simultaneous submissions or previously published work.  

 

• Follow current MLA guidelines for critical essay submissions and formatting.

 

• Submissions must be postmarked by May 1, 2008.

   

 

Payment upon publication is one copy of Florida English.

Additional copies will be available for $10.00.