General Guidelines
Send
all queries & submissios as .doc or .gif email attachments
to this address:
stanleyashenbach@yahoo.com
Do not paste submissions onto emails. Please include a 100-150 word biography. TDP does not publish poetry.
Fiction
& Creative Nonfiction. TDP
accepts solicited & unsolicited manuscripts of up to
1,000 words. Manuscripts of 5-500 words are preferred. Translations
welcome. No simultaneous submissions or reprints. Submit only
1 work at a time. Novel excerpts or stories in anthologies that
have been self-published will not be considered for publication.
Literary
Microcriticism. The
maximum length for manuscripts is 500 words. While authors are
encouraged to practice new & imaginative styles of texual
inquiry on a range of topics, microcriticisms should focus on
or concern Bizarro-related literature & film in some capacity,
or they should themselves capture a Bizarro methodology. MLA documentation
preferred.
Artwork & Animation. Submissions of photographs, paintings, sketches, sculptures, comix, & stand alone cartoons are all welcome. We are especially interested in animated texts & short films.
Reviews
& Interviews. Reviews
of speculative fiction & nonfiction books published within
the last two years are considered for publication. Particularly
appealing are reviews of alternative & independent press novels,
story collections & anthologies. Likewise is TDP keen
on interviews with speculative authors, artists & filmmakers.
Self-published works and authors will not be considered for reviews
or interviews.