Submissions

CORDITE 39: JACKPOT!
GUEST POETRY EDITOR: Samuel Wagan Watson
FEATURED ARTIST: Queenie Chan
SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED!
Submissions to Issue 40: INTERLOCUTOR will open 1 June, 2012

Samuel Wagan Watson is a Brisbane-based writer whose first collection of poetry won the 1999 David Unaipon Award for Emerging Indigenous writing. He has since picked up a list of other prizes, including the NSW Premier’s Book of the Year in 2005 and the Kenneth Slessor Poetry prize. His books Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight and Smoke Encrypted Whispers are published by UQP.

Currently, Wagan Watson is the Senior Communications Officer for 98.9FM Brisbane Indigenous Media Association. His poetry made its debut at the 2011 Adelaide Cabaret Festival, adapted by the award-winning and multi-talented Indigenous songstress, Leah Flanagan.

Queenie Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1980, and migrated to Australia when she was six years old. In 2004, she began drawing a 3-volume mystery-horror series called The Dreaming for LA-based manga publisher TOKYOPOP. She has since collaborated on several single-volume graphic novels with best-selling author Dean Koontz. As prequels to his Odd Thomas series of novels, they are called In Odd We Trust and Odd Is On Our Side, the latter becoming #1 on the New York Times best-seller list the week it came out. The third book House of Odd is coming in 20th March, 2012. She currently lives in Sydney, Australia. Check it out.

Jackpot: There are innumerable ways to become dressed up in the luck of its sartorial pizzazz. Drilling for meaning in applied Gestalt theory or geothermal vents in New Zealand, getting bumped into first class on a flight – striking a gusher of champers – instead of off it entirely, discovering a green grocer that has a cache of peaches otherworldly in taste … sometimes you just never know where a jackpot lurks. So forget about dinero and gamble with words. Or dress up as a springbok and gambol your way in a completely different direction. Take a chance.

The following conditions apply to all poetry submissions:

1. All works will be selected anonymously. Do not print your name on your submission!
2. Cordite only accepts unpublished work, and will not consider simultaneous submissions.
3. Please send a maximum of four (4) poems per submission.
4. Please send your works in one (1) Word or RTF document. PDF cannot be accepted.
5. Submissions will only be accepted via our online submission form.

GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Cordite seeks first publication rights for all works submitted. See our copyright statement below for more details.

Cordite accepts submissions from any place on planet earth. The generous support from the Australia Council for the Arts allows Cordite to offer payments to Australian citizen or permanent resident contributors.

POETRY

Cordite maintains an anonymous submissions policy for all poetry submissions. This means that the guest editor for each issue does not know the identities of contributors until after the final selections have been made.

Poetry can be sent during one of the three submission periods each year. We regret that we are not able to offer feedback on individual poems.

Simultaneous submissions or previously published material will not be considered. This includes works published in print and web journals but does not apply to material first published on personal blogs.

FEATURES

Contributions of long articles, essays or interviews should be discussed with the editors before submission. Use our inquiry form.

REVIEWS

Click here to read Cordite's Reviews Policy, or peruse a list of titles currently available for review.

AUDIO

Audio should be submitted electronically in MP3 format only. Please use the spoken word submission form to send us your work.

VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA

Multimedia can be submitted electronically in the following formats:

Shockwave file
MP4 File
WMV File
Flash file
QuickTime file
URL to one of these files

Please contact us by email if you would like to submit your work in one of these formats. Do not attach the file itself when inquiring for the first time!

PAYMENT

Thanks to the generous support of the Australia Council for the Arts, we are able to offer the following minimum rates of payment for Australian citizen and permanent resident contributors:

POETRY, PROSE POEMS, FLASH FICTION PROSE: $60 ($90 for 2)
AUDIO: $50

COPYRIGHT

Except for the purposes of transmittal via the internet, fair dealing and research, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission of the author and the publisher.

Works may be republished in other internet collections with permission only and on condition of acknowledgement of Cordite‘s first publisher status. Publication rights for works in media other than internet websites revert to the creator upon publication however as a courtesy we ask that any subsequent publication include an acknowledgement of Cordite‘s first publisher status.

DISCLAIMER

Reviews and articles published in Cordite are accepted for publication on the understanding that they do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors or the publisher unless otherwise stated, and on the understanding that they represent and promote fair discussion and commentary on Australian poetry.