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How do I publish? | What does Publishing mean? | Copyrights | Anonymity | Transcript
The Poetry & Prose Archive is designed to promote the unknown writers of the world. Everywhere, in every corner of the globe, are frustrated writers. From the quiet skinny young man with thin blonde/brown hair falling over one eye who writes in his grandmother's attic only when it rains to the captain of the cheerleading squad who writes during the third quarter of every football game, to the widowed grandfather who writes underneath the willow tree behind his house, to the teenager who wears black leather and silver spikes to annoy her parents and writes screams to challenge the world, to the successful attorney at law who never finds enough time to write but somehow ends up with poems anyway. Everyone who writes any kind of poetry or prose can and should send poems to publish on this website.
The Poetry & Prose Archive is primarily amateur work from all ages, though I would be VERY impressed and gratified if a professional wanted to be included here. Amateur writers should have some outlet for their creative juices other than big publishing houses, and people who don't write very much should have just as much a chance for people to read their work as anyone else.
Every time "the Archive" is mentioned, it refers to the Poetry & Prose Archive.
To publish your work on this website, your work should be something that can be easily displayed on the web, such as poetry or prose or some form of word art.
I read everything submitted, and I will try to publish every piece that I get. I reserve the right not to publish any piece submitted on the basis of length, subject, or quality—but I'm pretty open.
To submit your work for publication in this site, send me an e-mail containing your work. Please include your name (unless the piece is anonymous) and an address where you can be reached (preferably e-mail).
There is no charge whatsoever for this service. Knowing that people come and read the writing in the Archive is gratification in itself.
Publishing simply means this: I will place a copy of your work in the Archive for anyone and everyone to read and enjoy. If you don't want people to read your piece, don't submit it. Every piece that is accepted to the Archive will be published on the web for at least six months, though it will remain in the transcript (Archive) until the author requests that it be removed. The author can request that his/her piece be removed at any time by sending me another e-mail.
Each piece will be published with either the e-mail address of the author, the name of the author, or the snail-mail address of the author. If an author wishes to be available for comment and suggestion on his/her work, please provide an address to be included with your work in the Archive.
Since poetry has no strict rules concerning spelling, grammar, mechanics, or anything else, I will publish your poems exactly as I recieve them. I will proofread all prose (though I will contact each author to verify the changes that I make) before including each piece in the Archive.
All work in the Archive remains the property of each respective author. All copyrights to all pieces in this work (except anonymous pieces) is retained exclusively by each respective author. Anyone wishing to reprint the Archive, in whole or in part, must contact each individual author, except in the case of anonymous pieces.
Written work may be submitted to the Archive anonymously. In such cases, the work becomes public-domain unless otherwise stated. An author may choose to publish anonymously, yet retain control of the work by providing me with an address where the author may be contacted but which will not be published with the work. In such cases, the work will be described as being submitted anonymously, but that I must be contacted for permission to reprint it. I will then contact the author.
A transcript of the Archive is available for download. The transcript contains every piece that has every been published with the Archive, and will grow as the Archive grows. You may download the transcript as a BinHexed ZipIt file from this link: Download
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