SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please welcome your new editorial hosts: Melissa Broder and D.W. Lichtenberg!

Melissa Broder (Editor in Chief) is the author of WHEN YOU SAY ONE THING BUT MEAN YOUR MOTHER (Ampersand Books, February 2010). She is the curator of the Polestar Poetry Series at CakeShop and winner of the 2009 Stark Prize for Poetry and 2008 Jerome Lowell Dejur Award. Broder received her BA from Tufts University and is currently getting a slow, scenic MFA at CCNY. By day, she works as a literary publicist. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including: Opium, Shampoo, Conte, and The Del Sol Review. She lives in NYC and grapples with twitter shame.
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D.W. Lichtenberg (Managing Editor) is the author of THE ANCIENT BOOK OF HIP (Fourteen Hills Press, November 2009), an exploration into the phenomenon of hip. He is a writer, filmmaker, caffeine addict, and obsessive cleaner. He received a BFA in film from NYU and attends SFSU's MFA in creative writing. He maintains a spectacular twitter account. D.W.L. grew up on the Main Line of Philadelphia and currently lives in San Francisco. He once went five days without eating anything, and hopes to one day go on a cross country road trip with J.D. Salinger. (Update: R.I.P. J.D. Salinger)
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NOTICE: ALL SUBMISSIONS ARE TEMPORARILY CLOSED FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH, 2010. ALL SUBMISSIONS SENT BEFORE MARCH 1 WILL BE READ. WE'RE DOING SOME PREEMPTIVE SPRING CLEANING.

SUBMISSIONS RE-OPEN APRIL 1, SEE YOU THEN!


Please send all submissions to the following 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 1,000 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 will 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.