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general GUIDELINES
Blood Tree Literature favors lyrical pieces that do not withhold depth or resonance. With that in mind, submit to us your best, the box under your bed marked UNSHARABLE, the orphan poem or black sheep fiction. Send us your experimentals; be vulnerable, be calculated.
Maximum word count: 2500. We’d like to keep it flash-y.
Maximum pieces of poetry per submission: 3.
Per piece accepted, we offer $10 for poetry, $15 for fiction and nonfiction, and $20 for hybrid and experimental pieces. Published pieces are eligible to be nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize.
Submission fee: $3. Submission fees allow us to maintain our Submittable and website/domain, as well as pay our contributors!
Submissions are processed through Submittable only. Simultaneous submissions are allowed under the condition that you withdraw your work immediately if it is accepted elsewhere. Please do not submit more than once per genre until you’ve heard back on your pending submission. If you have not received a response on your submission within three months, please query us via email to bloodtreelit@yahoo.com. We do not read reprints nor manuscripts at this time.
Contributors release one-time electronic rights of their accepted piece(s) to Blood Tree Literature and the right to electronically archive the work as a part of the issue in which it first appeared. Contributors retain copyright for their accepted work and may publish that work elsewhere after six months has passed since the BTL publication date. Honorariums for accepted pieces are processed through PayPal only.
Abusive or derogatory submissions are not allowed - not now, not ever. BTL is a pro-choice, trans-inclusive, anti-racist publication.
CONTRIBUTOR BOOKS
If applicable, in your submission you may also include a brief blurb for your recently published book with a link to where it can be purchased. Should your piece(s) be accepted, we will include the provided book in our Contributor Books page. If you are a previous contributor to BTL, you can notify us of new book publications for inclusion via our email: bloodtreelit@yahoo.com.
