Call for Submissions,
Spring/Summer 2019
Due date: August 1
Image text: From as far back as Shakespeare, poets have experimented with irregular meters, free verse, and varying structures. These poetic characteristics became the foundation of the surrealists, aesthetics, and even the beats. These movements emphasized creativity that is both subjective and objective; art is everywhere, everything, and is differently experienced by everyone. Wilde Boy recognizes how overwhelming that notion is. If art really is all of that, how do writers go about choosing and creating in an endless expanse of possibility? We encourage submissions to Wilde Boy's 3rd issue to experiment with variations of constraints, either those popularized by the Oulipo movement like n+7 poems or lipograms, or those forms historically used in poetry such as the sonnet or villanelle. In addition to poetry, we would love to see submissions of prose, essays, visual art, and reviews that explore this issue's theme.
New!
We're also open to receiving submissions that don't follow the above theme! Feel free to send us pieces that are inspired by another literary movement, figure, moment, etc.--we'll include these in a new section of the zine!
Info about the movement:
Wikipedia: Oulipo
The Oulipo official website (in French)
American Academy of Poets: A Brief Guide to OULIPO
Who Are the Women of Oulipo?
Rats Build Their Labyrinth: Oulipo in the 21st Century
The Oulipo Group’s Generative Word Games
Primary texts to read:
Six Selections by the Oulipo
Curation of texts from the Oulipo
Oulipo techniques to try out:
Official list of Oulipian constraints
Try Oulipo Techniques and Cure Your Writer’s Block
Oulipo Creative Writing Techniques
The N+7 Machine
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We respond to submissions within three to four months. If you haven’t heard from us by then, feel free to drop a line!
Non-English submissions are welcome, but must be accompanied by an English translation. Simultaneous submissions are also welcome–drop us a message if your piece is accepted elsewhere.
Send submissions to us at [email protected]! Include the name you'd like to be published under, the title of your submission, and its genre(s) (if any). We care less about where you’ve been published and more about your submission itself–let us know why your work is important!
Rules for each category of submission are listed below. Feel free to send works that do not fit into genre categories! We do not require a reading fee.
Prose and poetry should be, generally, under 5,000 words. Send a maximum of five poems if submitting poetry. We’d love to read flash fiction and mixed-genre pieces! Please submit using a widely-used file format such as .docx, .pdf, .jpeg/.jpg, .png, or .gif. If your piece is one that requires citations, please use the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition.
Visual Work: Please submit using a widely-used file format such as .pdf, .jpeg/.jpg, .png, or .gif. If your work cannot be formatted as such, let us know. If you’d like your work to be considered for our front cover, also let us know!
Interested in being interviewed for our next issue? Send your bio/any thoughts to [email protected].
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Accepted for publication?
New!
We're also open to receiving submissions that don't follow the above theme! Feel free to send us pieces that are inspired by another literary movement, figure, moment, etc.--we'll include these in a new section of the zine!
Info about the movement:
Wikipedia: Oulipo
The Oulipo official website (in French)
American Academy of Poets: A Brief Guide to OULIPO
Who Are the Women of Oulipo?
Rats Build Their Labyrinth: Oulipo in the 21st Century
The Oulipo Group’s Generative Word Games
Primary texts to read:
Six Selections by the Oulipo
Curation of texts from the Oulipo
Oulipo techniques to try out:
Official list of Oulipian constraints
Try Oulipo Techniques and Cure Your Writer’s Block
Oulipo Creative Writing Techniques
The N+7 Machine
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We respond to submissions within three to four months. If you haven’t heard from us by then, feel free to drop a line!
Non-English submissions are welcome, but must be accompanied by an English translation. Simultaneous submissions are also welcome–drop us a message if your piece is accepted elsewhere.
Send submissions to us at [email protected]! Include the name you'd like to be published under, the title of your submission, and its genre(s) (if any). We care less about where you’ve been published and more about your submission itself–let us know why your work is important!
Rules for each category of submission are listed below. Feel free to send works that do not fit into genre categories! We do not require a reading fee.
Prose and poetry should be, generally, under 5,000 words. Send a maximum of five poems if submitting poetry. We’d love to read flash fiction and mixed-genre pieces! Please submit using a widely-used file format such as .docx, .pdf, .jpeg/.jpg, .png, or .gif. If your piece is one that requires citations, please use the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition.
Visual Work: Please submit using a widely-used file format such as .pdf, .jpeg/.jpg, .png, or .gif. If your work cannot be formatted as such, let us know. If you’d like your work to be considered for our front cover, also let us know!
Interested in being interviewed for our next issue? Send your bio/any thoughts to [email protected].
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Accepted for publication?
- We will ask for a third-person bio to include in the issue along with your piece, along with your social media pseudonyms, so we can advertise your piece online!
- We are currently planning on having issues available to read online for free and are a new publication with a small masthead, and thus can't offer much in payment (not yet!); however, contributors will receive $5 for each piece accepted into Wilde Boy. We will ask for your PayPal email address in order to send payment.
- We ask that any reprints of your submission give first publication credit. (For example, "[submission title] originally appeared in Wilde Boy.")