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what to send:
Complete MS
looking for:
Short Story
specifically:
Literary
About This Market
Swink is a bi-coastal, biannual print magazine dedicated to identifying and promoting literary talent in both established and emerging writers. Swink currently only accepts mss via online submission system.
Swink considers fiction, essays and poetry that have not been previously published in English. For the print issue, please submit only one manuscript at a time (1 story, 1 essay, or 3-5 poems). Accepts novel or memoir excerpts provided they have not yet been published in English and can stand alone as short stories or essays.
Swink makes every effort to respond within twelve weeks. There are no set guidelines as to content or length. Submissions must contain your name, address and a telephone number where you can be reached. Also accepts submission for their online magazine.
Sections:
Takes One to Know One features essays in which a writer, musician, filmmaker, lawyer, postal worker, football player, funeral home director, scientist, circus clown, or just about anyone, writes about someone else, living or dead, who shares his or her vocation or avocation.
Peregrinations features essays on travel or journeys.
Damaged Darlings is a section for collaborative writing in which one author hands off a story of theirs that's been abandoned for whatever reason, to another writer they trust to complete. This experiment in literary genetics is meant to yield a final product that is superior to the original, and that, like offspring, bears the literary DNA of both its parents.
