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SeND uS YoUR SparEs
We are Always on the hunt for spare parts to add to our Magazine! As a publication we are seeking exciting, diverse and original work to add to our growing quarterly magazine. Give us curious, challenging, convicted and cant give up on this pieces -
we're collecting up spares.
ART/ificial SubmiSSions
BIG NEWS: We are protesting the development and use of AI to mimic and plagiarise our creative community with our new series of supplementary volumes of Spare Parts "ART/ificial"
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We are Literally asking you to Rage Against The Machine
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We will be accepting ART/ificial submissions initially on a rolling basis.
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All of our normal guidelines apply to these submissions including our requirement of content warnings. Read below for details.
SubMiSSion GuiDeLinEs
We consider poetry, flash fiction, micro fiction, short plays, novel excerpts, art & photography.
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POetRy –
Submit to: sparepartsliteraryPoetry@gmail.com
Please submit no more than 3 poems per submission period.
Use a standard 12-point font and single space your submissions (except for form poems).
Attach your piece as a Word doc, docx, or a PDF. Please include your name and the leading title within the file name/document title.
Include a short cover letter, a brief third person bio, any content warnings for the notification of sensitive material & any social handle or personal professional website we may link your work to should it be accepted for publication.
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FicTi0N –
Submit to: sparepartsliteraryFFandart@gmail.com
Please specify the category of your subission in the email subject line.
Please submit up to 1,500 words per flash piece.
Please send only one flash fiction per submission period.
Use a standard 12-point font and double space your submissions.
Attach your piece as a Word doc, docx, or a PDF. Please include your name and the title within the file name/document title.
Include a short cover letter, a brief third person bio, any content warnings for the notification of sensitive material & any social handle or personal professional website we may link your work to should it be accepted for publication.
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PLaYs & NovEl EXceRpTs –
Submit to: sparepartslit@gmail.com
Please specify the category of your subission in the email subject line.
We would love to see more snippets of novel manuscripts and plays recieve attention in Litmags, which always looks good to potential agents and editors!
Please note we do not represent potential authors as agents nor can we offer publication to full novels as we are currently an exclusively online magazine.
Please submit no more than 10 pages at a time.
Please submit your work as .doc, .docx or .pdf files. Please include your name and the title within the file name/document title.
We’re flexible on formatting as long as your formatting is clear and easy to read.
Also, please note if you have special formatting as it sometimes does not display correctly in Word. This way we can check with you if something looks incorrect.
Include a short cover letter, a brief third person bio, any content warnings for the notification of sensitive material & any social handle or personal professional website we may link your work to should it be accepted for publication.
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ARt & PhOTogRaPhY –
Submit to: sparepartsliteraryFFandart@gmail.com
Please specify the category of your subission in the email subject line. Please Submit no more than 3 Peices for us to consider per submission period.
Please submit your work in as high a quality as you can, as either .Jpeg, .Png or .Pdf files. Please include your name and the titles within the file name/document title.
Include a short cover letter detailing your medium, titles, dates or any other information about the work which we should be aware of including content warnings, a brief third person bio & any social handle or personal professional website we may link your work to should it be accepted for publication.
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* Please do not paste your work into the body of an e-mail. *
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RighTs –
For all works we publish Spare Parts Lit will acquire First Electronic Rights and Non-exclusive Archival Rights.
All other rights remain with the author.
If you reprint your piece in a book or anthology, all we ask is that you mention it appeared here first.
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We ask that submissions made to us be previously unpublished material [acceptions can be made if the work has since been removed due to magazine closure or if the work has significantly changed since publication - please email to discuss].
Should your work be accepted elsewhere while under our consideration, we ask that you shoot us an email to let us know that we've missed out! (We'll still be grateful to have been on your shortlist and very happy to congratulate you on your exciting news!)
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Your work is your own, so should you wish to withdraw your submission at any time before publication you have every right to do so and we will respect your decision unwaveringly.
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At Spare Parts Lit we believe that everyone has a voice and we do not believe in discrimination, we will therefore not consider any work which we deem to be offensive to any race, gender, ability, orientation or creed. We also would ask that gratuitous sex and violence be kept out of our inbox.
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We do not charge submission fees & we cannot pay our contributors.
HoW To SuBmiT
Submissions Window
Since we are an independent Lit Mag our staff work completely voluntarily carving out time for submissions within the busy schedules of their own careers, studies and family. We can therefore only offer a limited but regular submission window and we keep this schedule in order to process the submissions we recieve in a timely fashion.
We will open for submissions between the 7th and the 17th of the month, every month and will publish our spares Quarterly.
If you aren't sure whether we are open for submissions just send us an enquiry email or check our socials.
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To submit your spares for our consideration send your work to the appropriate email address following the formatting and length guidelines listed above.
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Don't see a category which fits your Spare in our guidelines? We're looking for unique!
Why not send us a pitch?
Click here to contact our Team
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