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IMPORTANT NOTE: Submission of SHORT FICTION is now closed! Effective June 20th.

BASIC FORMATTING for BOTH FICTION AND NON-FICTION PROSE:

• The top left of page 1 of your digitally submitted document (.docx, .doc, .rtf, or .odt file) should contain—at the top left—YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION, inclusive of name, address, email, and any other contact information you wish to provide. 
• The WORD COUNT for your document (excluding title, by-line, and any epigraph) should be given at the top right corner of page one.
• The document should be set in Times Roman or Times New Roman,12512-point.
• 1" MARGINS ALL AROUND.
• Except for your contact information on the top left of page one, which may be single spaced, ALL OF THE TEXT SHOULD BE DOUBLE SPACED.
• DO NOT TAB INDENT PARAGRAPHS. DO NOT use your space bar for pargraph indents. Use the Ruler Bar of your word processor to set a small margin (at least one pica, at most one quarter of an inch).
• ShowTITLES of long works (novels, novellas, full-length films, symphonies, works that contain shorter works within, etc.) IN ITALICS; show titles of short works (short stories, poems, essays, chapters, etc.) "IN QUOTES."
• Show breaks in the piece of prose (if any) by THREE CENTERED ASTERISKS ( * * * ) [star space star space star].
• Minimum and Maximum WORD COUNTS for prose fiction and non-fiction prose will be announced in each Call for Submissions.

BASIC FORMATTING for POETRY SUBMISSIONS:

• SINGLE-SPACE POETRY with any indents clearly set in the submitted document.
• Submissions of "PROSE POEMS" will be considered poetry, BUT will be transformed to poetic line count by the formula: Total # of Syllables/10, thus approximating iambic pentameter line lengths.
• Both formal, traditional, metered and/or rhymed verse AND free verse are welcome for submission.

ALL ILLUSTRATIONS, ART, or PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK must be submitted in 300 dpi resolution (whether color or black and white).

IMPORTANT NOTE: At the end of the scroll of any text document submitted INCLUDE A BIOGRAPHICAL "BLURB" and/or credits (publications, awards, contests, etc). This must be completed for consideration of your work. Works submitted lacking this submitter's information or not following these Guidelines will be rejected. 

In the case of SUBMITTED ILLUSTRATIONS: Submitters should send biographical blurbs in an email to: fcoffman@comcast.net 

MAXIMUM NUMBER OF ACCEPTANCES and PAY RATES for The Phantomicon

(NOTE: ONLY ONE (1) Submission PER CATEGORY may be submitted by any single submitter. This DOES NOT MEAN that a single submitter cannot submit one  submission in two or more different categories—for examples: a short story and a poem, OR a work of non-fiction and an illustration.

• Submissions of Short Fiction will be cut off prior to the Call Ending Date of 30 June upon the receipt of the 30th Short Story submission. Submissions of Short Fiction after that cut-off will receive an immediate notice that Short Fiction submissions are closed.
• Submissions of Poetry will be cut off prior to the Call Ending Date of 30 June upon the receipt of the 40th Poetry submission. Submissions of Poetry after that cut-off will receive an immediate notice that Poetry submissions are closed.
• Submissions of Non-Fiction will be cut off prior to the Call Ending Date of 30 June upon the receipt of the 8th Non-Fiction submission. Submissions of Non-Fiction after that cut-off will receive an immediate notice that Poetry submissions are closed.
• Submissions of Illustrations will be cut off prior to the Call Ending Date of 30 June upon the receipt of the 10th Illustration  submission. Submissions of Illustrations after that cut-off will receive an immediate notice that Illustration submissions are closed.

NOTE:
While we are primarily seeking NEW, NOT PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED work, we will consider previously published works IF and ONLY IF all rights have reverted to the creator of the work. If such a work is accepted for inclusion in this issue, ALL APPROPRIATE CITATION INFORMATION must be included as part of the text of the submission.

PAY RATES:

• 1/2 cent per word for accepted FICTION and NON-FICTION, but with a MINIMUM of  $15.00 and a MAXIMUM of $30.00. Word Counts for Fiction should be from 1500 to 6000 words. Word Counts for Non-Fiction should be from 1500 to 6000 words.
• $10.00 for accepted Poems of fewer than 14 lines; $15.00 for accepted poems of 14-50 lines; $20.00 for poems of more than 50 lines, with a MAXIMUM length of 100 lines.
• $15.00 for accepted Half-Page Illustrations; $30.00 for accepted Full-Page Illustrations; or for a full page of Cartoon Cells.​ PAGE DIMENSIONS 6 by 9
• IMPORTANT NOTE:   COVER ART CONCEPTS may be submitted. Cover Art Submissions will be closed upon the reciept of the 5th concept. The dimensions of the concept must be 12.5 by 9.  Ample room must be left on the right side of the image so that Title and Credits can fit on that half of the art without important aspects of the image being obscured by the text. Payment for a successful Cover Art Concept will be $50.00.

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