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Submission Guidelines

October 10, 2007 by dogvssandwich

Dog Versus Sandwich is a regular blog-based webzine publishing stories online. It is edited by Ben Payne and published by Twelfth Planet Press, who also publish Shiny and New Ceres.

What we want

Dog Versus Sandwich is dedicated to the fantastic, absurd, surreal, obtuse, bizarre, fandangled, hyperbolic, “slipped streams”, the parable, the duck with the broken leg, the experimental, the mental, and also stories in which a dog eats a sandwich (or vice versa)

The Way We Want it

We will consider stories up to 10 000 words. However, stories under 6000 words will have a greater chance of acceptance. Stories must be original and unpublished. We do not accept reprints. We try to keep our reply times short and so do not accept multiple submissions or simultaneous submissions. Flash fiction (under 1000 words) and poetry will also be considered.

How to submit

All submissions should be emailed to dogvsandwich@gmail.com as an rtf attachment. The subject line of your email should read “Submission: [Your Story's Title]“, or, if it is a flash fiction sub, “Flash: [Your Story's Title]“. Your email should contain a brief cover letter. Stories which do not follow these rules will be deleted unread.

Response

Dog Versus Sandwich will prioritise speed over commentary. So the majority of subs will receive form letters, and will be returned in under a month. Stories which come close to publication may be held for slightly longer. If you have not heard back after a month please feel free to query.

Payment

We pay $50 (Australian dollars) for short stories, and $10 for flash fiction or poetry.

Rights

We ask for first world publication rights. Exclusive rights to your story for three months, and non-exlusive rights (you can submit it elsewhere, but it will be archived on our site) for twelve months.

Posted in Guidelines | 11 Comments

11 Responses to “Submission Guidelines”

on October 12, 2007 at 1:21 am1 Martin

Define “flash”? What word count makes it flash? Most of my stuff tends to walk the line.
on October 12, 2007 at 8:59 am2 dogvssandwich

Thanks Martin, I’ve edited the guidelines to clarify. At the moment I’m going for 1000 words as the cut-off.

Didn’t realise I had comment moderation on either. Have to work out how to turn that off!!
on October 12, 2007 at 3:58 pm3 Marcie

For poetry subs, do you prefer to receive only one at a time, or is a submission of 3-5 poems in one email acceptable?
on October 15, 2007 at 2:43 pm4 Karen

Where is the link to your web zine? I’d like to see it.
on October 15, 2007 at 7:27 pm5 Bryan Bullock

I was curious about payment. I am in the USA; if you accepted a submission from me, would payment be via PayPal, as for “Shiny?”
on October 15, 2007 at 9:24 pm6 dogvssandwich

Hi Marcie, yes, three to five poems is fine.

Karen, this is the webzine. It doesn’t exist yet. When it does it will be here on this blog, with stories published as blog entries and as pdf documents in the blog.

Bryan, yeah, we’ll be paying via paypal. It’s the best deal for OS authors.
on October 17, 2007 at 12:57 pm7 Rosemary Dun

Hi there,
What is rtf?? I’m in the UK. I’ve got Word and pdf. Please advise.
cheers
Rosemary
on October 21, 2007 at 6:33 am8 Jane

Should the subject line of a poetry sub say “Poetry: [Your Poem(s)' Title(s)]”?

Just wanna make sure of the rules
on October 23, 2007 at 6:02 pm9 Maria

Rosemary–I’m not the editor, the dog or the sandwich, but, if you have Word, you can save as RTF. Look under your “save as” and you should see other formats, including RTF.
on October 28, 2007 at 1:06 am10 dogvssandwich

Thanks Maria. That’s right.

Jane, yeah, if you could put Poetry or Poem in the subject line it helps make things easier, although we’re not too strict on that sort of thing. The key is to have something in there that distinguishes it from spam
on June 12, 2008 at 10:57 am11 kenchi

can writers outside the US submit their works?