SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Each issue of Not Drowning, Waving is created around a particular theme. Check back issues or our website for the list of upcoming themes and submission deadlines.

We prefer not to publish work you’ve already completed previously. What we ask from each artist, instead, is that you choose the theme that most intrigues you of those upcoming and then take a conscious journey into it. (It’s a risk, all right, to do it this way. We understand how much easier it is to just riffle through your files and find something that you think you can tweak a little for a forced fit. But bear with us.)

If the theme is Innocence, for instance, act as if you’ve just arrived on this planet and have no preconceived notions of what this strange concept is. See it, in other words, as if for the first time. Be absolutely obsessed with Innocence: Play with it, examine it from every conceivable angle, see it everywhere you go in the outside world. Let yourself be seduced by Innocence; invite it to invade your dreams, give it a place in all your conversations, sit across from it at breakfast. Where can you feel it in your body? What are your earliest memories of it? Ride the wave of Innocence all the way down into the Here Be Dragons territory and hang out with it there awhile. When you’ve earned its trust and it’s revealed its hidden nature to you in ways you’ve never previously experienced, giving you information you’ve never known before that you recognize on a soul level as being uniquely for you, come back out the other side of this journey and make your art from that perspective, out of these new insights you have to share with the rest of us.  

Thanks so much for your interest in submitting your work. We couldn’t do this without you.

Additional Guidelines for Writers:

We want you and your story to shine. We also want Not Drowning, Waving to exhibit the best possible quality in all regards. In order to uphold such tall standards, all writers must agree to participate in the mutual editing process (emailed) between editor and writer before we both agree that your story is ready for publication.

Additional Guidelines for Artists:

Send us your pictures, photos, activist posters, sketches, paintings, subverts, hallucinations, designs, comix, collages, etc.

If in digital format: Please send as JPEG using 72 – 150dpi, and sized accordingly. JPEGS can be emailed or mailed on CD.

If as hardcopy: Please don’t send originals. Your submitted artwork should be duplicates or color copies.

Typically submissions won’t be returned unless you don’t have the means to submit; and then ask us and we’ll assist you.

For All Contributors:

Each artist will be paid $20 for your work. We will also send a complimentary copy of the issue of Not Drowning, Waving in which your work appears. We purchase one-time rights. All other rights revert to the artist upon publication.

Mail & Email To:

Gail Snyder, editor/publisher
2892 Highway 14
Madrid, NM 87010
505-982-4714

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