Buttonhook Press: Call for submissions
OPEN CALL for Chapbooks of Experimental Discourse
SUBMIT
O:JA&L’s Buttonhook Press will consider chapbook collections of 20 (minimum) to 44 (maximum) pages of Experimental Discourse with no individual title in the submission to exceed 2100 words.
Submitters should include a table of contents and if any individual works have been previously published, an acknowledgments page. The acknowledgments page, the table of contents, and any dedication page should not be included as part of the page count.
Submit the manuscript as a single document. Begin each individual title on a new page within the document. .docx files are preferred. Follow other general O:JA&L guidelines that may apply. Simultaneous submissions are accepted in this category with the understanding that O:JA&L will be notified promptly if a piece under consideration here is accepted elsewhere.
Previously published works are not accepted.
A cover letter should include the writer’s contact information, the title of the work and its category (fiction or nonfiction), and the writer’s professional biography of up to 100 words in third person. O:JA&L and its imprint Buttonhook Press claims first international rights, first North American rights, first Australian rights, and the right to archive in perpetuity the accepted chapbook on its website.
“Expedited” consideration is not available in this category.
Conditions:
Chapbooks accepted for publication will be released to readers as free PDFs through the O:JA&L website and will enjoy limited distribution to O:JA&L Patreon supporters and as O:JA&L subscriber premiums. No ISBN is associated with this title. Copyright for the PDF versions of these chapbooks will reside permanently with OJAL Art Incorporated, OPEN: Journal of arts & Letters (O:JA&L) and O:JA&L’s Buttonhook Press and all other rights will be reserved on behalf of each author.
Submitters will be issued a free production license from Buttonhook Press. No ISBN will be associated with the license under this arrangement. In fulfillment of the request, OJAL Art Incorporated, O:JA&L/BHP, the copyright holder for the PDF versions, will provide proprietary files of the book useful to most commercial houses for producing a print version. By providing the file and license, published submitters are thereupon authorized/licensed to print, release, and sell or otherwise distribute print copies of O:JA&L’s licensed version for their own purposes.
The licensing document and provision of the file constitutes a release from O:JA&L to produce the file as a printed book with the only condition being that no changes are to be made to the PDF’s original contents or original format as prepared by O:JA&L without the publisher’s expressed written permission. Some of these permissions will be provided via the licensing document.
SUBMIT
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O:JA&L’S BUTTONHOOK PRESS MASTERS SERIES
Click on the titles below to explore or download the free PDF chapbooks in the O:JA&L Masters Series.
The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Brian Clements on Prose Poetry
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Mark Budman on Flash Discourse
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Ray Gonzalez on Prose Poetry
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Master Series: Michael Martone on Flash Fiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Master Series: Roberta Allen on Flash Fiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Master Series: Peter Conners on Flash Fiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Maxine Chernoff on Prose Poetry
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Pedro Ponce on Flash Fiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Tom Hazuka on Flash Fiction
With an interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Kent Dixon on Flash Fiction & Nonfiction
With an interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
MORE TITLES IN PRESS
Support Pamelyn Casto’s text for writers: Flash Fiction: Alive in the Flicker
