SubmissionGuidelines

SUBMISSIONS BEGIN IN AUGUST 2009

ELIGIBILITY FOR PUBLICATION

All ABAC students, faculty, staff, and alumni are eligible to be published in the pages of Pegasus. Students at high schools, public and private, in the state of Georgia are also eligible.  Additionally, freshman and sophomores in Georgia system colleges and universities are invited to submit.   Pegasus also publishes outside contributors, but on a request/network basis only (interested writers and artists should contact the editor).

ELIGIBILITY FOR PRIZES

Only ABAC students and Georgia high school students are eligible for prizes in our contest. Only Pegasus staff members (including ABAC students) are eligible for the Andrew McKay Prize for Poetry.

Prize-winning contributors will be required to submit both a signature and social security number.  Prize-winning contributors will be contacted by the editors.

JUDGING

For the purpose of eliminating bias from our contest, each year the editor and advisors select a panel of independent judges consisting of artists, former high school teachers, and college teachers who are familiar with high school and college students' work and abilities.

NUMBER OF SUBMISSIONS

Please submit no more than 5 poems or 2 pieces of short fiction at a time.  Please do not send poetry and fiction as part of the same submission.

SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS

At this time, Pegasus does not consider simultaneous submissions.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE 

Please note that deviation from these guidelines will disqualify any submission.

While Pegasus is a print journal, we accept only electronic submissions.  Pegasus will NO LONGER ACCEPT HARD COPY SUBMISSIONS. 

Save your attachment as “yourlastnamegenretitle.”  For example, if you have written a short story entitled “The Old Gray Mare” and your name is John Doe, then save your attachment as “doeoldgraymarefiction.”

Submit your manuscript as an attachment formatted for MS Word (2003 or 2007) or .rtf with ‘[Genre] Submission: NAME’ as an email subject line (for example, ‘Poetry Submission: Emily Dickinson’ or ‘Fiction Submission:  Ernest Hemingway’).

Please DO NOT send your submission in the body of an email.

A cover letter with contact information (address, phone) is required, and should be pasted into your email message and addressed to the editors.   Your cover letter should include a short 3-5 sentence biographical statement (in third person).  Indicate if you are an ABAC student or a Georgia high school student.  Georgia high school students must include the name of their faculty sponsor and the contact address for their high school

POETRY: Submit 3-5 poems (in a single attachment).  Pegasus is looking for lyric and/or narrative poetry with an attention to language and image.  Please be familiar with the genre before you submit.

FICTION:  Submit 1-2 short stories (8000 words maximum).  Pegasus is look for high-quality short fiction with attention to matters of craft:  plot, characterization, and setting.  We strongly believe that good fiction must follow the rules of Standard Written English.

NONFICTION:  Submit 1-2 essays (8000 words maximum).  Pegasus is not interested in literary analysis or research-style essays; however, autobiographical criticism is certainly welcome.  We are mainly seeking well-crafted creative nonfiction, including lyrical essays, memoirs, and narratives.

ARTWORK:  Submit up to 3 pieces of art in any medium.  It is solely the artist’s responsibility to submit high-quality jpegs.  Pegasus has no restrictions on style, but we certainly will not publish inappropriate work.  Please write 'Art Submission:  NAME' in the body of an email (for example 'Pablo Picasso:  Art Submission').  Please be certain to identify the medium of the art in the cover letter.  Without information about the art's medium, Pegasus will not publish it.

EMAIL your submission to submitpegasus@gmail.com.  You will receive a confirmation email about your submission.  Please note that the Gmail account takes submissions only.  Direct all queries and questions about Pegasus to pegasus@stallions.abac.edu.

Please note that Pegasus does not send rejection letters.  Contributors and award winners will be announced on the Pegasus website in April of 2010.

DEADLINE

The deadline for the 2010 issue of Pegasus is January 31, 2010.

QUESTIONS

Please feel free to contact the advisor,  Jeff Newberry (229-391-4972/jnewberry@abac.edu).

NOTE

The Pegasus editors reserve the right to make editing changes (only where necessary) without altering the substance of the literary pieces. When drastic or liberal editing changes are required, the editors will either contact the author to discuss a possible revision or disqualify the submission. Under no circumstances will your work appear in Pegasus significantly altered from its original form/version except by your explicit approval.

By submitting your work to Pegasus, you give the magazine the right to publish and display your work. 

A list of submissions accepted for publication will posted to the Pegasus website by April 1st.