Submissions accepted: poetry, fiction, reporting and essays. Writing of any type other than haiku will be considered for publication with the following caveats:
ii.
Strictness of the submission guidelines: not
very (strict that is).
iii.
Editor’s willingness to read anything: 8 on a
scale of ten, where ten is high and zero is low.
iv.
Footnotes: there will be no footnotes.
And the following relevant information.
a) Those
that pertain to Canadian Culture--specifically
not related to technology and business--and are
mostly not time sensitive, will be considered
first.
b) Those
that pertain to the interaction, in Canada,
between people will be considered the highest
rate of priority (before first, if that is
possible).
c) Those
essays set in rural areas of the country will
not be favoured over those set in urban settings
for publication. However we like stories set in
rural areas, especially rural Prince Edward
Island and rural Saskatchewan, so we will read
them first, if that means anything.
d) Length of submissions: submissions should be no more than 10,000 words in length and should be no less that one word. Unless you can figure out some way for us to either publish no words, as an essay, or for the editor to be able to read faster than his present speed without him having to attend any speed reading courses (which he took in grade nine and didn't learn a thing except that it is easier to read something that you like). If you submit, say, 100,000 words, that would be a lot and we will only be able to read about the first 10,000 if it is bad--even if it is not bad. If the first ten thousand are good, we will publish it without having read the next 90,000 and this could prove embarrassing if we had writers who wrote the same word 90,000 times after the first ten thousand (unless, of course, there was a compelling reason to do so).
2.
I) How to submit work for
the Internet Publication,
ForgetMagazine.com: send to
words@forgetmagazine.com (there is no
hyperlink on the email, by the way,
because it is very cold in here).
II) Response time and house policy: in most cases a response will be given within 24 hours (NOT ANYMORE GIVE US A LONG LONG TIME. IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD BACK IN, SAY, 6 MONTHS, ASSUME A NO. WE WISH WE COULD PROMISE MORE PROMPT SERVICE BUT WE ARE UNDERMANNED; AND WE HAVE NO ROBOTS, AT PRESENT). Other notifications and biased descriptions will appear as deemed necessary. III) Submissions for the print publication ForgetMagazine.com: there is no print publication of Forget Magazine yet. But soon. |
3.
No screenplay will be considered unless it is a screen play involving the life of a famous dead literary figure haunting another dead literary figure in the halls of All-Saints Roman Catholic Church about a mile and a half from Como Lake, in Coquitlam, British Columbia. Or about a child from East Winnipeg who grows up to be a nut-cutter for one of (if not all) the five crime families in New York before the whole John Gotti debacle. Other screenplays will be read on the off chance there is something decent worth stealing from them.
4.
The writing of letters to, and critiques of the
editor, the designer, a Canadian historical
figure, a semi-obtrusive signage, something at
its nature or a normal household item shall also
be considered for publication.
5.
The telling of the truth is strongly
encouraged.
6.
Essays on the history of political dissent in
Canada will be considered above stories about
great hockey fights (though both will be
considered).
7.
Fiction shall be considered as long as the
protagonist is a Canadian and does, in the end,
get crushed by a large, seemingly immovable
object. Like a ski hill. Or if there is another,
similarly plausible, ending.
8.
Essays exploring the connection between
articles, people, products in grocery store
line-ups, and criticisms of same, will be
regarded as "reviews". No other reviews will be
accepted unless they are for a product no longer
available, or of an action one must take alone,
or of something you really hate.
9.
No songs will be accepted unless they are
written in such a way as to convey one of the
earliest chapters of Canadian life in the west.
Or are by Gene MacLellan.
10.
No classified ads, or ads of any kind, unless
they are for a business in the new territory of
Nunavut or for something we can not consume,
will be accepted. And no space-cats.
11.
Archiving/Re-Printing of articles:
articles will be archived online permanently and
should you wish to reprint them you may not.
Unless, of course, you are the writer of said
article, in which case you may re-publish them,
re-sell them (ironic seeing as we are not buying
them) or make wallpaper out of them. All we ask
is that you wait one month after
ForgetMagazine.com publishes your work before
you reprint it. However, in continuation of
Point 1.ii (InRe: strictness of submission
guidelines) if some major publication should ask
to publish a piece of work that appeared in
ForgetMagazine.com, say, 17 days ago, will we
ask you to wait the extra 13 days (or 11 if this
hypothetical scenario should transpire in
February)? We will not.
12.
Payment for articles in the electronic
edition of ForgetMagazine.com: there will
be no payment.
Explanation for the lack of payment from ForgetMagazine.com: the blood from a stone metaphor, but we assure you that when we have we will share (now I know this settles nothing for you percentage of future advertising revenue types but, really, all those trumped up promises would be, well...just that, trumped up, so we will make no such promises except to say that at current this project has no possible, or even hopeful revenue streams and we can live with that, and are hoping that you can too. At least for the time being).
13.
Acceptance of artwork: yes.
Necessity of submitting artwork: no.
Editor’s interest in looking at unsolicited artwork on a scale of zero to ten where ten is low and zero is high: 1.
Acceptance of the word “artwork” in a modern dictionary: suspect.
14.
What we are really after: what we are
really after in this publication is the
publishing of material that is ignored in the
mainstream press and the even the independent
news. Anything that has reason and passion. And
more stuff that is Canadian than not.
Now you may ask yourselves, do we need another
ironist journal when the world itself would seem
to be built on a murky foundation of irony? What
is an ironist journal anyway? Is it a journal
for ironworkers, ironies, or for iron itself?
Ask Tom Frank. We have no fucking idea. Does a
Magazine called Forget have any chance of being
remembered?
15.
You. Tell. Me.