lungfull magazine suggests you submit to us

SUBMISSION IMPOSSIBLE.

PLEASE FOLLOW THE SUBMISSION GUIDELNES TO THE LETTER
[LATEST UPDATE TO GUIDLEINES: 9/12/06]

The best way to make LUNGFULL! a better journal is by sending your work to us. We’ve never been afraid of your submissions & we aren’t starting now. By reading the entire submission guidelines, you will have an advantage over the the mss arriving right before & right after yours. Although the guidelines are strict, we very much encourage you to submit your work.

We HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you read a copy of the magazine thoroughly before submitting to get a sense of the editors' aesthetics & sensibilities. Send up to 6 poems or 10 pages of prose with a cover letter. It never hurts to mention in the cover letter what you think of the magazine & why you’d like to be published in it. A list of previous publications or reasons why you should be considered important might make you mom love you more, but not us. In fact, your mom wants you to cut it out too.

If your work requires special fomatting, that is, if your poems are open-field, inhabit the pages in unexpected ways or are prose poems with no specific line breaks, please indicate this to avoid frustrating production brain-teasers later on.

Simultaneous submissions are okay but just let us know. We prefer previously unpublished work. Previously published work will be considered only after all other submissions. Typical response time is in the neighborhood of six months but varies & can be as long as a year or two. This is due to the large volume of submissions which also prevents us from commenting on work we receive. DO NOT QUERY before one year.

LUNGFULL! receives over 1,000 submissions for each issue and accepts about 3%. Please reflect on the impact these numbers may have on your sense of self or collegial relationship with any of the editors. Also reflect on the effect of these numbers on the psychological well-being of the editors themselves. They are not paid & at least one of them loses money through this venture.

Please let us know if you are the kind of person who:
• gets upset at waiting a long time to hear back
• gets psychotic if the answer is no
• immediately makes us regret accepting your work if we say yes

Perhaps the best way to indicate this to us is by not sending. If you submit work without saying one way or the other we’ll assume yr wonderful & no more of a wack job than the next guy.

The use of talismans, spells or sorcery of any kind in an effort to influence a decision on your work is strongly discouraged, as are more direct attempts at intimidation or coercion. You will never know if we really liked your work or if your acceptence was contingent on supernatural intervention or fear. The cumulative effect of this uncertanty can lead to horrifying crises of identity after a decade or so.