submission guidelines for right hand pointing

Hi, there.

We're very pleased to be approaching our fifth anniversary.  We've done nearly 25 issues,

several online chapbooks.  Thanks for considering sending your work to us. 



Here are the submission guidelines.

What we publish on our website

• Art
• Short poems
• Short fiction (very short)

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Length

We publish short work.  Kinda very short.

We have a short attention span. We can’t help it. It’s like a disability, we think.

Length:  Poetry

Your poem has to pass two length tests, which we call 2Length Tests (which is also the

name of a hip-hop act out of Birmingham, Alabama.) 


Test one:  Under 16 lines.  We'll go up to 20 lines if the word count is under 75 words.

Test two:  Not more than 75 words.  Well go up to 100 words if it's 16 or under lines.

Length:  Fiction

Under 500 words.

See how easy short is?

What we don't want, Part I.

Haiku.  Or, as we might say in English with a heavy Japanese accent:

What we don't want, Part II

Poems about...

• pets, alive
• pets, dead
• grandparents
• old photos stuff you find in the attic while visiting your (grand)parents’ house
• yourself

If you send something about nature, we'll be particularly looking for a fresh approach.

(We’re less likely to publish something about a natural object as we are something about

a natural object embedded in somebody’s head.)

What we don't want, Part III

We stay away from work that is quaint and sentimental. We like a bit of edge. We don’t

like drama and we're not nuts about confessional.

To try to allow our readers to access the journal in schools and places with content

filters, we avoid publishing profanity, sexually explicit content, and graphic violence.

(Unless it involves a natural object embedded in someone’s head.) 

What we don't want, Part IV

We admit to being averse to traditional rhyme, except for the subtle. (Our favorite kind

of rhyme is the kind we don’t even notice, but is pointed out to us by the smart person

sitting next to us.) Obvious rhyme and lock-step meter gives us seizures. (Not the grand

mal kind. More the kind that make you kind of blank out and rub your nose.)

Don't make us seize.

How to submit.

Submit

By email to righthandpointing /(at)/ gmail.com


Poems: 1 to 4 pieces

Fiction: 1 or 2 pieces

Art:  Send samples and inquire

Include in the body of your email if you can. Attach a Word document of you can't.