Storyscape, a new literary journal that is story-centered, asks for your submission.  We want your:

Short story, long story, overheard story, invented story, true story, false story, poetic story, oral story, historical story, crafted story, stolen story, visual story. 

Just captivate us with the strength of the story.  The premise of the journal is to expand the notion of what stories are while shaking up the labels we use to define them. To this end, we've come up with 4 sections of the journal: Truth, Untruth, We Don't Know and They Won't Tell Us, and Stories without Words. You label your own piece, which means you decide what "the truth" means to you. All we want is to lean back, relax, and listen to your story. 

We now have a rolling submission policy. The next issue will be published online in August of 2008.

Tips for storytellers:

1. We are looking for as much variety in storytelling method as possible. We get excited about genre-bending stories of all genres, but also all storytelling methods, ie, written, audio, visual, found, and anything else you can think of.

2. We may be intentionally messing with categorization, but we also find categories fascinating.  Stories that discuss boundaries, communities, created spaces, roles, labels, and categorization could be groovy.

3. But we also want stories about your grandmother.  And your neighbor’s monkey that your neighbor doesn’t really have but you wish he did.  And how your laundry machine feels while it’s in the spin cycle.

4. That’s kind of what we were saying about the variety thing.

5. Also, we really like laughing.  Can you make us laugh?

6. But we like crying too.  Maybe like is the wrong word, but we’ll do it, if you make us.

7. Please categorize your piece. Or, you know, don't.

8. We do not consider previously published stories.

9. Our first issue will be published online.

10. You must send your work IN THE BODY OF YOUR EMAIL.  If you are sending visual or audio stories, please direct us to an online link, if possible. If this is not possible, please email an introduction letter and we'll give you instructions from there. If your written story has special formatting issues that need to be discussed, please explain this in your introduction letter, and we'll see what we can do to help. Thanks.

11. You may submit up to 5 poems (which we call "words with spaces") but please only submit one prose story at a time.

12. A short introduction letter is a nice touch. Please also include your name and email address on the first page of your story. We will ONLY respond to your work by email.

13. Unfortunately at this time we cannot pay our contributors, although we truly wish we could. Contributors retain rights to their work upon publication.

14. We try to respond either way within two months. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know upon acceptance elsewhere.

Have fun!!!!

So send it on in: email your document, sans virus, to: 

storymaster@storyscapejournal.com