SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

GENERAL

1. Send your submission within the body of an E-mail. TGP's editor uses a Macintosh and has very little skill or desire to convert files.

2. TGP has no word count limitations, and you shouldn't either. However, consider the eyes and patience of Internet readers.

3. If you confuse the name of the journal with a thematic restriction, you will only limit yourself and your submissions. We will publish pieces related to science, physics, metaphysics and religion, but we will publish others that have little or nothing to do with those areas.

4. As with any other publication you submit to, read what we have published. We are always open to fine literature of any genre, and especially work that transcends genre.

5. We have four reading periods each year: MARCH, JUNE, SEPTEMBER and DECEMBER. Unsolicited work sent during other months will be ignored. Exceptions will be made for writers whose work has been solicited and for filmmakers.

6. Simultaneous submissions are welcomed. Please let us know, though, and notify us immediately when your work is accepted elsewhere.

7. Multiple submissions are not encouraged, except in the cases of poems, photographs and very short pieces.

8. Previously published pieces will be welcomed if the work has appeared only in print. We ask that reprints not appear elsewhere on the Internet until 6 months after publication in The God Particle.

9. Send your best to editor at thegodparticle dot com. Include the category and title in your subject line (e.g., FICTION - 'My Brilliant Story'). Submit work no more than once per reading period.

10. We do not pay. This is a labor of love.
 

FICTION

1. As stated above, we impose no length restrictions.

2. Experimental, innovative and unconventional stories will be welcomed with
open arms, as will excellent examples of more traditional storytelling.

3. Excellent speculative fiction will also be met with open arms, especially
if it crosses or transcends genres.

4. We have a fondness for faux documents of any sort.

5. Send only one story per reading period, unless you send short-shorts, flashes and microfictions.
 

POETRY

1. We love good poems, but good poems are very rare indeed.

2. Traditional poetic forms have their place, and we have a place for some.  In most instances, however, we believe a good poem dictates its own form.

3. If your poem rhymes, perhaps someone else will publish it.

4. Send no more than five poems per reading period; and if you send more than one, send them all together.

5. If E-mail text limitations will ruin your poem's format, query for permission to send an attachment.
 

ESSAYS

1. Essays of any length are welcomed. The flash essay can be particularly effective.

2. Academic essays of any sort belong elsewhere.

3. Though we tend to favor personal essays, excellent prose is a crucial element of a good essay.

4. Send no more than one essay per reading period.

5. We do back flips when people send essays (not reviews!) on classic, independent, or foreign film.

 
PHOTOGRAPHS, MOVIES AND MUSIC

1. Before submitting, send a query letter that describes your submission. We are, truly, open to anything -- well, not pornography or excessive violence, but most anything else.

2. The editor's taste in music is very particular, and he has a special fondness for the traditional folk instruments of Europe.

3. Streaming video is something we have not yet hosted, so we hope you'll know at least as much about it as we do.

4. Photo collections should have some cohesion.
 

WORK THAT DOES NOT FIT INTO THESE CATEGORIES

We're interested. Send a query letter, describe your work. If we won't take it, maybe we can recommend another publication that might.

A REMINDER

Please, send no attachments. The editor does pretty well with most of the attachments he has formed in his lifetime, but he doesn't want any more. So, again, text only, please.