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Submit poems and code to The Yellow Buick Review!

The Yellow Buick Review is accepting submissions between July 30, 2014 and August 14, 2014. As YBR is a very unusual literary magazine, please take a few minutes to get aquainted with what we're about.

The Submissions

The Yellow Buick Review is interested in two types of submissions: Poetry Without Accompanying Code and Poetry With Accompanying Code.

 

1. Poetry Without Accompanying Code

Submit one poem up to 40 lines in length, any style. Please give it an original title. The text of the poem must not be original; you must use lorem ipsum text (also known as "greek text"). I'd prefer if you copied the text from this page. I'm particularly interested in poems that have:

Bicycle Comics Productions acquires first North American serial rights for print and E-book. We cannot accept previously published work or simultaneous submissions. (Frankly, we'd be baffled!) Please include your name and E-mail address on your submission or in a cover letter.
We pay $3 per accepted "Poem Without." There is no submission fee.

 

2. Poetry With Accompanying Code:

If you've read the blog and have some ideas for how to make a poem really look good in The Yellow Buick Review, submit your poem WITH any original HTML/CSS inside a .zip file. As above, submit one poem up to 40 lines in length, any style. The text of the poem must not be original; you must use lorem ipsum text (also known as "greek text"). I'd prefer if you copied the text from this page. I'm particularly interested in CSS/HTML that has:

Bicycle Comics Productions acquires first North American serial rights for print and E-book. Any HTML/CSS you submit will be governed under our Creative Commons license. We cannot accept previously published work or simultaneous submissions. (Frankly, we'd be baffled!) Please include your name on your submission or in a cover letter.
We pay $5 per accepted "Poem With." There is no submission fee.

 

How to submit

We'd prefer to receive submissions through our Submittable page. Unlike a lot of Lit Mags, we charge no submission fee; it's totally free for you to send us poems via Submittable. If you really want to mail them in, however, please print them single-spaced in a large font (at least 12 point) on standard 8.5 x11-inch paper. Include a brief cover letter with your name, address, and E-mail address. Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) if you would like a written reply. The mailing address is:

Bicycle Comics

Attn: Artie Moffa

1155 4th Street

San Francisco, CA 94158

USA

Submissions must be postmarked on or before August 14, 2014.

 

The text

All poems in The Yellow Buick Review must use lorem ipsum "Greek" text. Lorem ipsum is nonsense text, mostly in Latin, and typesetters have used it for decades to test the look and feel of a layout without the distractions of reading material. Please cut and paste from any part of the following lorem ipusm text for your submissions:

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Any Questions?

Please E-mail us: projects at bicycle hyphen comics dotcom.

 

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