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Welcome to Word Catalyst Magazine

"And by the way,
everything in life is writable about
if you have the outgoing guts to do it,
and the imagination to improvise.
The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt."
-Sylvia Plath

Word Catalyst
is a monthly online publication
published the first week of each month.

We offer a wide variety of writing styles
combined with other forms of creative expression.
Our goal is to publish new talent each month along with published authors.

Please read our Submission Guidelines page before submitting.

Staff

SHIRLEY ALLARD
Publisher/Managing Editor/Poetry Editor/ Art Editor
editor@wordcatalystmagazine.com

publisher@wordcatalystmagazine.com

HARRY FURNESS
Editor/Technical Assistant/Photo Editor
harryfurness@wordcatalystmagazine.com

photoeditor@wordcatalystmagazine.com

NOAH CHAMPOUX
Short Story Editor
shortstories@wordcatalystmagazine.com

JO JANOSKI
Flash Fiction Editor
flashfiction@wordcatalystmagazine.com

RUTH HILL
Non-Fiction Editor
nonfiction@wordcatalystmagazine.com

 

Regular Columnists
Jo Janoski
Harry Furness
Dan Beams
Harry Calhoun
Mark DiPietro
Rusty Arquette
Will Dixon

Please read our Submission Guidelines page before submitting.
Deadline for submissions is the 25th of each month preceding publication.

Word Catalyst Magazine © 2009

No portion of this publication may be copied or reproduced in any manner
without the express permission of Word Catalyst Magazine.

All copyrights revert to artists/authors after publication.

 

Submission Guidelines

If you are in doubt as to whether your material is suitable for Word Catalyst
you will find that the best source of what we accept is our archives.
Please take the time to look through them and take note of our style
as well as what we have accepted in the past.

It is your responsibility to proofread your material and make sure it meets the following guidelines before submitting it.

 

Although we've been known to correct the occasional and obvious typo, we do not offer proofreading services.

Please include a brief bio written in the third person with each submission if you wish it to be included with your work. We do not have the resources to keep them on file.

Please check your spelling and grammar manually and reread your work before submitting. Spell check catches many errors but does not care if you use the wrong word as long as you spell it right.

Please consider the fact that we have writers and readers of all ages. If you use language that we feel is inappropriate to a literary magazine it will be edited out or will not be published.

We are not interested in erotica or controversial materials. Our goal, as a literary magazine, is to entertain the reader.

 

Always Include the category you are submitting to in the subject line when submitting.

Categories:

Poetry editor@wordcatalystmagazine.com
Short Stories shortstories@wordcatalystmagazine.com
Creative Non-Fiction nonfiction@wordcatalystmagazine.com
Flash Fiction flashfiction@wordcatalystmagazine.com
Photography (send URL or sample) photoeditor@wordcatalystmagazine.com
Art (send site URL only) editor@wordcatalystmagazine.com

 

Prose Guidelines:

We are currently accepting:

Short stories of 1,000-3,500 words (longer stories may be accepted on merit)
Flash fiction up to 1,000 words
Creative non-fiction up to 3,000 words.

Do not indent paragraphs.
All text should be justified left with a space between paragraphs.
Attach as a Word doc. or rtf file or include in the body of your email.

 

Poetry Guidelines:

Currently, we have no set line limit for poetry. We are more interested in the quality of your content.
Do not use all caps or underlines in titles. All caps should be used only for emphasis.

 

Photos & Art:

Photos should be sent as jpg files, 72 dpi with a maximum width of 500 pixels.
Send 3-5 photos per submission or a link to your online photos. File size should not exceed 1MB. If necessary, send multiple files.

We feature only one artist per issue. Please do not send unsolicited art. If you would like to be considered as a featured artist send your site link to editor@wordcatalystmagazine.com and we will check it out. If interested in featuring your work, we will contact you.

Please direct any further questions or comments to publisher@wordcatalystmagazine.com

 

Thank you,
Shirley Allard, Publisher

 

Word Catalyst Magazine is published by:

New Century Publishing
57 Waldron Rd.
Lempster, NH 03605

1-603-863-2661

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