SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please welcome your new editorial host: Melissa Broder!

Melissa Broder (Editor in Chief) received her BA from Tufts University and is currently taking the scenic route through the MFA Poetry program at the City College of New York. By day, she works as a literary publicist. Melissa is the curator of the Polestar Poetry Series at CakeShop (www.polestarpoetry.com). She is the winner of the 2008 Jerome Lowell Dejur Award as well as the 2008 and 2009 Stark Prize for Poetry, and her work has appeared in several journals, including: Opium, Shampoo, Conte and The Del Sol Review. She is at work on her first collection, tentatively titled: When You Say One Thing but Mean Your Mother.


Please send all submissions to the following new address:

lapetitezine@gmail.com

We accept e-mail submissions only. Please paste your work directly into the e-mail. If you are greatly concerned about formatting, please send an attached document in addition to the pasted text. We accept visual files in pdf, jpeg, and gif format. Include a brief bio with your submission.

Please send work in all genres. And all non- or anti-genres. We consider visual work of all types. We consider personal and academic essays.

We require that you put in your e-mail subject line the following information:

LPZ.lastname.month.date.year.

Thus, a submission from a poet might read in its subject line:

LPZ.Notley.10.28.2006

•Please send 3-5 poems. Essays and fiction should be under 2,000 words, but query if you think we have reason to consider your longer work.


•Please include a brief bio.

•Please, no multiple submissions. Simultaneous submissions are fine; please let us know if work’s been accepted elsewhere.

•Please wait two months before submitting again.

Any deviation from our guidelines may result in the disposal of your submission--trash folder, no questions asked.

Read our current and recent issues before submitting. No excuses; they're free and they're stunners!

If, after a few months, you haven't heard from us, please feel free to check in. Check nice! We’re tender.

We acquire First Rights, or one-time rights. Copyright reverts back to author/artist after publication.