Eyeshot is internationally accessible.  Fiction, photographs, rants, reviews, links, essays, and other unclassifiables are accepted and declined.  We pay in dissemination and validation, however meager.  Anything you send to submit@eyeshot.net (preferably ATTACHED as a .doc file) will be received and read.  All submissions must include at least one word, unless the submission is a picture. No maximum limit, although we rarely post anything over 4,000 words. The shortest has no words. The longest has many more.  Recently Updated Recommendations  Once there was a time when asked about submission guidelines we consulted the many sages and they all replied, "Cows never roam from pastures with no fences." We can't deny the wisdom of the sages. And so, there shall be no submission guidelines.  EXCEPT, to recognize that some people might want to know what we tend to post without bothering to browse the archive, we are now happy to offer somewhat explicit recommendations:  DO NOT SEND POETRY unless (1) it's disguised as prose, (2) it's totally nasty & perverted, or (3) you're an Egyptian. Please send your poems to this site instead.  DO NOT SEND more than one submission at a time.  DO NOT SEND ANYTHING if your e-mail address includes the words writer, write, poet, or anything similar. If you are under 17 years of age, it's ok. But otherwise, please do not submit.  VERY IMPORTANT: PLEASE INCLUDE THE WORD "SUBMISSION" in your e-mail's subject area. This is very important! We ask you to do this because we get a lot of spam and may accidentally delete your submission, especially if your story's title includes the words penis, penile, or enlargement. We have configured our e-mail program to automatically delete messages with these words (and many others such as Viagra, Vi@gra, and V1agra) in the subject area. Also, we've been getting these weirdly creative, spammed subject lines like "Anonymous Catfish, Omnivirous Tuber" that could easily be confused for the titles of the submissions many tend to send. So we suggest you just put the word "submission" or something like that in the subject area. Easy! And important! And related to something quite possibly impeachable?!?! Didn't Bush make spam illegal on January 1, 2004?!? And now there's spam now more than ever! What the fuck!?!  PLEASE TRY NOT TO SEND whimsical pieces that are loaded with dialogue and lots of lame pop-cultural references (we prefer mythological, literary, art-historical, and/or misanthropomorphotical allusions).  PLEASE TRY NOT TO SEND something about an emotionally cathartic moment from your childhood unless it involves dead clowns.  PLEASE TRY NOT TO SEND some small, relatively unimaginative, essayistic piece about deli meats or chapstick.  PLEASE TRY NOT TO SEND anything that anyone would ever describe as "punk rock." PLEASE TRY NOT TO SEND anything if your favorite author is Bukowski. Nothing against the man, but if he's your favorite author, please send your submission elsewhere. Again, we have no real problem with Bukowski's writing whatsoever, but if you're like totally all about him, that is, if write like him way more than you write like yourself, please realize you're invited to do two things: (1) pray for a big ol' rainstorm of sweet, sweet whisky, and (2) insert/piston your equally skinny and ashen thingy (assuming you're a boy) into and out of the hole in the center of your collector's edition DVD of Barfly. PLEASE TRY NOT TO SEND anything if you really, really earnestly think your stuff is "experimental" and yet you've never read Donald Barthleme and/or Joyce and/or Beckett's prose and/or those types both dead and alive.  PLEASE TRY NOT TO SEND anything that you would call "flash fiction." Short pieces are fine to send, but not if you refer to them as "flash fiction." We seem to have an unspecifiable problem with the term.  PLEASE TRY NOT TO SEND us your phone number on the manuscript. It is very tempting to make prank calls now that we have AT&T's one-rate local/long-distance plan.  PLEASE REALIZE you can send any of the above but we won't accept them unless they're really funny and/or wonderful. We tend to like things that are denser (not so quick to include space breaks between sentences), that are somewhat elusive and inventive and overblown languagewise and not-so-sane aesthetically. OK? That's a hint intended to save us all time. But then again, we are always open to reading anything you want to send. It may seem like there are now some fences, but they're imaginary - if you don't want them to be there, that's fine - think of them as suggested fences.  PLEASE REALIZE we tend to respond very quickly, often in mere minutes, generally within 48 hours. And that we used to tend to have some fun with our rejection letters, but now we send a link to a beautiful form letter. Occasionally, we may still respond personally and performative and whatever, depending on time and energy available. (No matter what, we will always respond quickly because we think the typical two-month wait for a rejection disrespects writers and unnecessarily slows the whole process down, even if it's probably necessary at some places.) Five volumes of collected rejection letters are accessible here and may prove an invaluable resource for prospective submitters interested in discerning our editorial tendencies and taste.  Special Needs We are no longer encouraging visitors to send works that are plagiarized or transcripts of instant messages, although we did in the past. We are now encouraging people to send "described photos" like this. Crop a photo to about the size of all the images on the site (like 500 pixels by whatever, orientated landscape style) and have some fun textually describing the image. Then send it here! Not too tricky! Well worth the minimal effort! Fun for all!  Anyway, send something. To learn more about this site, we offer you this link  . . .  If you would like to send physical objects (not manuscripts, but $$$ or gifts or books/music to potentially review), our current mailing address is:  Eyeshot's Hindenburg Complex of Infidels & Crusaders  936 E. Bloomington St  Iowa City IA 52245