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DIAGRAM is an electronic journal of text and art. As our name indicates, we're interested in representations. In naming. In indicating. In schematics. In the labelling and taxonomy of things. In poems that masquerade as stories; in stories that disguise themselves as indices or obituaries. Submission guidelines for DIAGRAM are below. Really, submission guidelines are always asinine when they suggest the sort of aesthetic that the editors want. The best way to learn about any magazine is to read it. But if you want our rambling about what we're looking for, see below. We sponsor (along with New Michigan Press) a yearly chapbook competition. Submission guidelines for the contest can be found here. All unpublished chapbook submissions are considered for DIAGRAM. Find our masthead here. All work on the site is copyright © the original authors. Please do not reprint without permission (though it will be likely given). Our ISSN is 1543-5784. DIAGRAM is indexed by The American Humanities Index. Brief statistic about the magazine: we get about 160,000 hits monthly worldwide. Some countries in which we are evidently popular: the USA, the UK, Australia, and Japan. We describe ourselves as: odd but good. |
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| SUBMIT interesting text, images, sound, and new media. WE VALUE the insides of things, vivisection, urgency, risk, elegance, flamboyance, work that moves us, language that does something new, or does something old--well. We like iteration and reiteration. Ruins and ghosts. Mechanical, moving parts, balloons, and frenzy. Buzz us. WE WANT art and writing that demonstrates / interaction; the processes / of things, both inner and outer; how certain functions are accomplished; how things become. How they expire. How they move or churn, or stand. We'll consider anything you see fit to send us. We don't republish work that has been printed elsewhere online or in print (personal websites excepted). We enjoy traditional forms. We eschew traditional forms. We lie. Send us annotations, schematics, poems, sentence diagrams, definitions. Make us love you. Guidelines for book reviews [here]. Books for review to the address below. ___ *** We suspect that some of our replies to submissions are being lost because spam filters on email accounts (especially @hotmail.com and @excite.com) occasionally filter us out. Please check your junk mail box periodically, white list anyone @thediagram.com, and consider sending your submission from another email address. As of the end of July 2007, we have moved to an [online submissions system] that allows us to better track and handle submissions. Well, we're using it for everything but REVIEWS and SOUND, which go to the usual places (below). The bonus of the submissions manager is that you can check the status of your submission at any time online, and that the whole system is easier to use and more reliable than email. >>> So, (1) we much prefer electronic submissions, all things being equal, but we'll be happy to consider hardcopy, too. (Hardcopy submissions can take dramatically longer for us to respond, as our filing system is much less elegant for these submissions; we're still happy to read them, but consider this a caveat.) >>> (2) For text, use the [submissions manager], and attach a full copy in Rich Text Format, MS Word, or PDF. For images, same deal, send a low-res version in JPG, GIF, PNG, or PDF format. If it's something else, please explain. >>> For sound work, email to [earache--at--thediagram.com] — We prefer mp3 format, zipped if possible, and please keep it in the neighborhood of 5 minutes or less. Queries are fine. And one more thing—for sound, you can expect (perhaps) a somewhat slower turnaround, since we publish sonic work less regularly. >>> For reviews, go to the [review guidelines] page. >>> For anything that somehow won't fit the submissions manager, email to [editor--at--thediagram.com]. >>> For hardcopy submissions (if necessary--again, electronic is MUCH preferred):
___ Simultaneous submissions are fine with us as long as we are informed, as long as you let us know immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere. Email the [editor--at--thediagram.com] address to let us know, or withdraw it manually in the system. We try to make decisions on all submissions and respond within a month; if you haven't heard from us after 2 months, then it's likely our response has been lost somehow in the buzz of the net, in which case please feel free to check with the submissions manager system. We do not consider revisions to submitted work. And it sort of annoys us to have to make revisions on accepted work, too, even though sometimes it improves the works in question. But seriously folks, make sure you're happy with the work when you submit it the first time. Typically, we acquire first serial rights for work we publish (which means we do not normally consider previously published work). All rights revert to the authors/artists after publication, and the works can then be reprinted (though we ask that we get an acknowledgment as its place of initial publication). |
