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Nimrod International Journal — Writers’ Guidelines

Subjects:
High-quality, literary poetry, prose and short essays. Two issues annually.  Spring issue: thematic, theme announced preceding fall.  Previous themes have included Writers of Age, Range of Light: The Americas, Australia, From Time to Time, Islands, and Crossing Borders.  Nimrod has also devoted numerous issues to emerging writers from several countries.

Format:
Each issue is approx. 200 pages, perfect bound, four-color cover.
 
Payment:
Always pays with two contributors’ copies. Winners of Nimrod Literary Awards receive $2,000 first prize, $1,000 second prize and publication.

Nimrod Literary Awards:
Annual contest begins January 1 and ends April 30. Send SASE or email for complete rules.

General Submissions:
Accepted year ’round.  Send SASE for notification and/or return of manuscript.  Turn-around time for over-the-transom submissions is one to three months.  Send SASE for guidelines, upcoming themes and contest guidelines.  

Fiction: Work must be previously unpublished. 7,500 words maximum. Vigorous, fresh writing; characters should be well-developed and believable.  Dialogue should be realistic without being banal.  
 
Poetry: Work must be previously unpublished. 3-10 pages. Poetry open to all styles and subjects.  We seek poems that go beyond one word or image, honor the impulse to reveal a truth about, or persuasive version of, the inner and outer worlds.  
 
Reading a sample issue before submitting a manuscript is recommended.
 
Manuscript Format:
Fiction: double spaced, 1” margins on all sides, word processed, one side of plain white paper only.  Poetry: word processed.

Subscriptions:
$18.50 – one year (outside USA $19); $32 – two years (outside USA $36); institution rates: $30 – one year (outside USA $36). Subscription form on Web site; download, print, and mail.
 
Sample Issues:
$11 each.  Please send check or money order.
 
Submit To:
Nimrod International Journal
University of Tulsa
800 S. Tucker Dr.
Tulsa, OK  74104
 
Nimrod does not accept e-mail transmissions unless the writer lives overseas and has unreliable mail service. For those sending email submissions, please paste work into the body of an email.


NIMROD International Journal of Poetry & Prose, University of Tulsa
E-mail : nimrod@utulsa.edu
800 South Tucker Drive
Tulsa, Oklahoma
74104
Ph: 918-631-3080
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last updated : 04/08/09