Eyeshot is internationally
accessible. Fiction, photographs, essays, and other unclassifiables are
accepted and declined. We pay in dissemination and validation, however
meager. Anything you send to submit@eyeshot.net
(attached as a .doc file and pasted in, too) will be received and read.
Don't even think about sending so-called "flash fiction." Submissions
should have at least 750 to 1,000 words (max 3,000 words, with exceptions).
BUT HEY PLEASE SEND 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 and unpredictable
and surprising and DEFINITELY LOL (not just amusing). It's pretty simple:
we're more interested in posting shortish readable oddities that make people
laugh. Also, we like
pieces that involve photographs or drawings -- not illustrations but maybe
descriptions of various pics or simple scans of doodles of insanely complicated
schematics re: your approach to fiction making or imaginative annotations
of photos from your recent trip to exotic international locales. But
basicially if the editor reads your submissions and at one point hears
his own laughter he will most likely accept your submission.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND more than one submission at a time. OR POETRY.
DO NOT SEND ANYTHING if your e-mail address includes the words writer,
write,
poet,
or anything similar -- if you're under 17 years of age, it's ok, but otherwise,
please do not submit.
ATTENTION DUOTROPERS! Please spend ten minutes reviewing
this
site's archive and evaluating whether or not your writing is really
right for Eyeshot. Lately it seems like a lot of people come through Duotrope
who blindly submit inappropriate (ie, aesthetically sucky/cookie-cutter)
fiction and so we've written this note to dissuade you from submitting
without first familiarizing yourself a little bit with this site's dealio.
PLEASE INCLUDE THE WORD "SUBMISSION" in your e-mail's subject area.
We get a lot of spam and may accidentally delete your submission otherwise.
PLEASE TRY NOT TO SEND whimsical pieces loaded with dialogue
and lots of lame pop-cultural references or something about an emotionally
cathartic moment from your childhood (unless it involves dead clowns) or
a small, relatively unimaginative, essayistic piece about deli meats or
chapstick or dentists or anything that anyone would ever describe as "punk
rock" or anything if your favorite author is Bukowski or anything if you
really, really earnestly think your stuff is "experimental" and yet you've
never read Barthleme or Joyce or Beckett and/or those types both dead and
alive or, again, do not even think about sending anything you would call
"flash fiction." Short pieces have more than enough homes online right
now and this is not such a home. If you send flash fiction and refer
to it as flash fiction we will probably respond immediately with a link
to this page and a note to refer to this bolded section about how we'll
send you a link to this page if you send flash fiction and refer to it
thusly.
PLEASE NOTE that nine 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.
If you'd prefer a link to a form letter instead of a personalized
response, please indicate such preference with your submission.
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), our current mailing address is available upon
request.
