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WELCOME TO OUR GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION.
PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY.
WE LIKE YOU AND WE WANT YOU TO SUCCEED.
ATTENTION: Print submissions are indefinitely CLOSED. Sorry.
DOUBLE ATTENTION: Web submissions are OPEN.
***PLEASE NOTE***
We ONLY accept UNPUBLISHED work for both the web and print. In other words, if what you're thinking of sending us can be found anywhere, in any country, in any format (magazine, journal, broadsheet, website) accessible by the general public, DON'T SEND IT. We like shiny things. Once we have published your work, however, you are free to do whatever you want with it, so long as you think of us fondly while you're doing it. In more straightforward terms, we hold first- and one-time rights only.
***PLEASE NOTE EVEN MORE***
We don't mind simultaneous submissions, so long as you alert us PROMPTLY if the piece is picked up elsewhere (and that you let everyone else know if we took it). However, we DO mind multiple submissions, aka 9 stories attached to the same email. Please only send us one at a time. We will read it, we will get back to you, then you can send more. This works the best. We like it when you play hard to get.
SEND ALL NOTES REGARDING SIM SUBS TO:
whittlz@pindeldyboz.com.
When sending a withdrawal, please specify the date the story was sent, and whether you submitted for web or print consideration, and whether it arrived by email or on paper.
***PLEASE CONTINUE NOTING***
We are open to ideas. If you have a project in mind that we can support, submit it to us and we will be happy to discuss it with you.
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PLEASE CLICK THE TYPE OF WRITING YOU WISH TO SUBMIT:
Web Submission
Print Submission
Poetry
Q: Can I send the same submission for consideration in BOTH Print AND Web?
A: No. You must choose.
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OUR NEW MAILING ADDRESS
Pindeldyboz
23-55 38th St
Astoria, NY 11105
Use this address to send money, presents, candy, baked goods, etc. But slow down there, turbo, before you go sending off that story. We're putting the mailing address up here as a test to see if you're paying attention. Are you?
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Submitting to the Website
Our website is published bi-weekly, usually. We run six new stories every update, occasionally serialize material, and have been known to publish cartoons and so forth when we get good ones. The advantage of submitting to the website is the difference in response time: we are comparatively snappy when it comes to getting back to web submissions. Snappy = two months. You also have a little more room to be rough or experimental or rude or whatever, as there is a lingering whiff of formality hovering about the print version. Mostly, the web is fun for everyone.
Submissions should be shortish, definitely under 2000 words, and should try to steer clear of genre fiction unless it is really, really GOOD genre fiction. And again, please only send one story at a time, unless it's like totally imperative that the stories go together. That way, love can build a bridge between your heart and ours.
To submit your prose to our Online Edition:
Via Email: Please send an attached or pasted-in copy of your submission to submissions@pindeldyboz.com.
Please include the word 'submission' and the name of your story in the subject of the email. This helps to keep our email system from devouring your story, for it is very hungry and moody and not something to trifle with at all.
It is also important for you to include your name, email address and phone number, so that we may order pizza for you in the dark of night.
In Real Life: If you don't have internet capability, but would still like to see your work on the internet (??), you can send your work on disk (floppy or zip) to our mailing address (see above). Please include your name, address, phone number, and a SASE.
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Submitting to the Print Edition
The Print Edition is a book-length volume of short stories and essays and novellas published once a year and distributed nationwide. Submitting to print will guarantee you a little more attention to detail, but with this attention also comes long, long delays. We are trying to cut down on these delays, but this is sometimes impossible. So you are very much encouraged to submit to the prestigious book version of Pindeldyboz, but you are also encouraged to be very patient when doing so.
Did we say essays? Yes, yes, we did. But we'd like to say it again. Submissions of creative nonfiction are sought, and encouraged, and welcomed with glad arms and happy hands.
Finally, you are also advised that, while we do print longer work in the print volume, we actively discourage submissions of longer than 10,000 words, simply because, dude, that's LONG.
Not sure what kind of submissions we're looking for? Why not buy a copy?
PRINT SUBMISSIONS ARE INDEFINITELY CLOSED. We'll let you know if they open again, believe you me.
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Submitting Poetry
We are no longer going to accept poetry submissions. At all. Not even if you ask nicely.