Upcoming Issues:
Issue #13: "Health and Sickness"
Deadline for Submission: August 1, 2010
Despite our average life expectancy inching ever-closer to a full century, western medicine has come under increasing criticism for lacking a holistic approach. While some nations have an ever-increasing demand for modern medicine to solve disease, the number of naturopathic alternatives on North American drugstore shelves are rapidly growing. Each of us approach our health and sickness differently, but what are the implications of our health-related practices?
Memewar is seeking your poetry, prose, essays, art, and your creative inventions on the topic of “Health and Sickness.” Write a long poem that describes in grueling detail your daily health-related routines, compose an essay about the impact of media representations of war-related injury/deformity, document a performance that investigates the differences between Western and Eastern approaches to aging, or develop a series of mock ads that comment on cultural views in regard to cancer and the industry of cancer support.
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Submissions can be emailed to: submissions@memewaronline.com
Memewar is a cross-disciplinary magazine published in print and online. We accept anything in the written word, such as stories, essays, well-devised rants, poems, or even plays. We also look for anything interesting to the eye, such as art or photography. Anything too large to send by email can be arranged to be submitted by mail. While our issues are guided thematically, they still feature "off-topic" work. So send us anything, theme-related or not.
Submissions that are selected for publication will appear in both online and print versions of Memewar. Since Memewar is a free magazine, we do not offer cash payment, but artists will be compensated with a print copy of the magazine and free entrance to the release party.
Here are some general guidelines to observe and follow when submitting:
- Submissions can be sent as email attachments to submissions@memewaronline.com. Please do not paste your submission into the body of the email. Files may be Word documents (.doc), Word 2007 documents (.docx), plain text documents (.txt), rich text documents (.rtf), or PDFs. For poetry submissions, please include a rich text or PDF version of the work so we may verify formatting.
- All image submissions must be of high resolution (300dpi or higher).
- The subject heading of your email submission should read: "Author: Title (Genre)"
- If you are sending multiple submissions, please attach each submission to a separate email.
- We do not impose a limit on the length of submissions; however, in the case of longer pieces, we reserve the right to publish shorter excerpts from the work.
- Please include a short bio written in the third person.
- Memewar reserves the right to manipulate submissions for best presentation. We will correct punctuation and typos, resize images, and select excerpts from longer pieces if necessary.
- Memewar is printed in black and white (and in colour for our online PDF). The size of the magazine is 8x8 inches. If you are submitting artwork and are concerned about this, please email us and we will discuss a possible solution.
- Through submitting, you are giving Memewar permission to publish your work. It should be original and previously unpublished.
- Responses should be sent out within four months after the deadline for the theme you submitted to.
Copyright Info:
All material is copyright of Memewar, the authors, 2009. All rights revert to the authors and artists upon publication.
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