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SUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED

Nota Bene: THE FLEA, being most replete with excellent Verse by divers Hands, will close to Submissions from Midnight (Australian Eastern Standard Time) on the 20th December, 2009, until further Notice.

Yrs &c,

Paul Stevens B.A. (Hons), Dip.Ed, Fellowe of the Royal Society of Alchymists & Astrologers

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General Submission

Authors aspiring to have a Poetickal Worke exhibited in a future Broadsheet of The Flea may submit no more than THREE Workes, in a single submission during the currency of the present Broadsheet.

A single poem or, rarely, two by a given author may be selected for publication in a future Broadsheet.

Works must be original and, in the sole judgement of The Editor, of a sufficiently distinguished character both thematically and prosodically. Submissions must be sedulously corrected before despatch.

Authors will better ingratiate themselves with The Editor by availing themselves of the technical submission facilities in the lower region of this page, carefully inserting the title, text, and any notes appertaining into the space here provided, & taking note of instructions, provisos, and exhortations. Such submissions will attract an automatic acknowledgement.

Delivery by electronic mail to The Editor will be accepted but is deprecated, and may prejudice The Editor’s judgement, although tolerance may be extended in cases of palsied fingers &c. provided that the explanation is credible and delivered with due deference.

No email attachments except by prior arrangement.

THE FLEA: Online Submission Form

(* means the field is required)

*Name:    

*Email:     
               Be absolutely sure this is correct and will remain valid.

Copy the text from your Word document (or other source) and paste it into the box below. Line and paragraph breaks will be preserved (if not, you can adjust with the Enter/Delete keys) but formatting such as italics and bold is not preserved. If there are just a few instances of such formatting, you can reapply it in the form, using basic HTML tags. (Use the link below for information on basic formatting.) Do not insert HTML code for paragraph or line breaks; it should be sufficient to ensure that breaks are visually correct, with a double break between stanzas or strophes. SEE THE FORMATTING NOTES IF YOU ARE SENDING TEXT WITH INDENTED LINES, and preview your text before submitting.

It won’t matter whether your poem title or other heading is in bold type or not.

Any special characters like accented letters, em dashes, or curly apostrophes and quotes, WILL come through fine if pasted in below and visually correct. Any UBB (forum/bulletin board) formatting codes for italics, bold, and spacing (white) text will be converted to the required HTML and reflected back into the text entry window.
   
*YOUR TEXT                        Formatting help and examples  (separate window)


If your text includes any formatting, such as italics or indented lines, be sure to read the formatting notes (link above) and preview the text before submitting.

 

Be aware that occasionally there might be a brief web server “outage” and the form might not work for a minute or two, so keep a text-file copy of your submission exactly as entered above, just in case. If your submission is successfully sent, you will see a confirmation page immediately, and if you check the relevant box, below, you will also receive a confirming email within a short time. If you see the confirmation page but don’t receive the email, you may have entered your address wrongly: try again.

Brief author’s biographical note —
up to about 60 words in third-person style, with no more than one web link.

(Formatting is available as above.)

  Send me an email message confirming my submission
If you are set up to read formatted (HTML) mail, the message should show your submission exactly as received. If you read mail only in plain text, the confirmation will show the text and line breaks as submitted, but formatting such as italics will be absent and special characters such as quotes and em dashes may not appear correctly even though we received them correctly.

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