Call for Submissions Poems, Photographs, Book Reviews and much more! Published twice a year – Summer and Winter Deadlines: May 15 and Dec. 15
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Call for Poems, Photographs and Book Reviews for Devour: Art & Lit Canada for the book review section “Canada In Review” for the poetry section “Poetry Canada” for the photography section “Canada Coast to Coast to Coast” and for miscellaneous photographs. The mission of Devour: Art & Lit Canada is to promote Canadian culture by bringing world-wide readers some of the best Canadian literature, art and photography.
Are you a Canadian living in or outside of Canada? Send your work to any of the editor. (See submission details below)
“Canada In Review” – Shane Joseph – shane@shanejoseph.com “Poetry Canada” – Bruce Kauffman – bruce.kauffman@hotmail.com “Canada Coast to Coast to Coast” – We are looking for a Curator General Photographs – Richard Grove – DevourArtAndLitCanada@gmail.com In the Subject Line of your email please include: “Submission for Devour: Art and Lit Canada." In the body of your submission let the editor know your full name and email address. Attachment: Send your poems, reviews and photographs as attachments only. Do not send them in the body of the email. Send Both: One can send photographs or poems or both but never send poems and photographs to the same editors. Be sure to send to the correct editor. Deadlines: There are two deadlines annually – May 15 and December 15 for the summer and winter issues.
Book Reviews: Send your maximum 500 word book review of a Canadian Published book or a Canadian Author to Shane Joseph at: shane@shanejoseph.com. Along with the review you can submit a 50 word Author Bio and a 50 word Reviewer Bio. Also send a 300 dpi 4 inch jpg author bio picture and a 300 dpi, 4 inch jpg front cover picture. Do not embed the cover and bio picture in the Word document. Above your review please include these publication specs. Title:, Author:, Publisher:, ISBN:, Number of Pages:, Published Year:. It might be wise to look at previous issues for the format of reviews that have been published in the past.
Poems: Length: The length of a poem should be no longer than 36 lines long, each line no longer than 50 character / spaces long. Haiku or other short poems are welcome. Number of poems: 3 poems max for each submission. Each poem should be sent in a separate MS Word file as an attachment. That means if you send 3 poem then send 3 attachments. Add to each poem: At the top of every page (one poem per file) you need to include your name, email address, city and province where you live. (do not include full address) We will publish your city and province with your name above the title of your poem. File name: Include your name and poem title in the file name. – eg: JaneDow-WaterFalls.docx. This helps us keep your poems together in the file folder. Previously Un-Published: We are accepting previously unpublished work only. Copyright: Authors and Photographers retain copyright of their work. Submitting your work gives permission to Devour: Art and Lit Canada for one time use. If you publish that poem or photograph again please give credit to Devour as first time publisher.
Photographs: We are looking for two types of photographs: 1 – Photos for “Canada Coast to Coast to Coast”. These photographs will represent the landscapes and cityscapes of Canada from as wide of a Canadian geographic area as possible. We are looking for a Canada Cost to Coast to Coast curator. For now all photos can go to Richard Grove at: DevourArtAndLitCanada@gmail.com 2 – These photos will not necessarily be about landscape or cityscape but they will be taken by Canadians about some aspect of Canada. Photos can be of general interest but of and by Canadians – people, garden, sky, wildlife, insects, sports, architecture, etc, etc. General theme pics are welcome and will be set to Richard Grove at DevourArtAndLitCanada@gmail.com. Resolution: All photographs must be 300 dpi about 5 X 8 inches. Low res pics will not be used. Number of photographs: 3 pics per person max. Photograph File Name: The file name for your photographs should include your name, your home province and image title in the file name – eg. JoeSmith–Alberta–Sunset01.jpg Other info: Your full name, province, title should be included in the body of the email. Photo Signature: No visible photo signature will be tolerated on any photo. Send Photographs to: Send your pics to Richard – see above.
Other Content Needed Canadian Art Reviews, CanLit Reviews, Canadian Photography Reviews, Canadian Music Reviews, Canadian Movie Reviews, Canadian Culture Reviews: We are always looking for all of these types of Canadian reviews.
Canadian Feature: Send us an email if you have any ideas for a Canadian Feature. DevourArtAndLitCanada@gmail.com We are looking forward to seeing your work in the pages of Devour. Please pass this call for submissions far and wide – to any Canadian on your list. Editor-in-chief, Richard M. Grove / Tai DevourArtAndLitCanada@gmail.com