Some days,
I grind against
breaking open the email
and jotting down,
Hey, how are you?
with a casual whistle
and a halo,
crossing my fingers
you will read
between the line.
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Submission Guidelines
ALL WORK SHOULD BE PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED
Prose (fiction, creative non-fiction, flash fiction, essay): no more than 3000 words or about 4 single spaced pages. If you submit something longer (and you can, but no novels, please), we will likely excerpt or publish it over two issues. In this case, please note in your cover letter that you are aware of this policy
Poetry: No more than 60 lines.
Artwork: .jpeg attachment. Both color work and black and white work may be featured. If The Toucan ever goes back to print, all images will be in black and white.
If a submission is accepted but not used in the latest issue, it will be given priority printing in coming issues. Submissions are always open!
Poem of the Week: a feature that highlights a piece, usually a poem but can be flash prose, from our always fruitful submission pile. Appears every Friday except when an issue has been published that week or in times of sheer catastrophe. Poems of the Week, with rare exceptions, are not printed in later issues. (However, we may do a collection of them at some point)
Oh hey. Newly accepted work will wind up in Issue #20, in February.
Multiple and simultaneous submissions are fine (within reason). However, we will only publish two pieces from an author in one issue. PLEASE notify us if submission is simultaneous.
Authors will be notified within a month (at hopefully latest) as to their work’s status.
If your work is accepted, we'll ask you for a three-sentence bio, so be prepared. Work will appear on our site until further notice.
Payment: A publishing credit, the satisfaction of a job well done, and the smiles of adoring readers.
Submissions need to be emailed to thetoucanmag@gmail.com as Word attachments. If you have trouble with attachments or an odd word-processing program, it is fine to copy work into the email body.
Have questions? Email us!
NEXT ISSUE:
ISSUE #22 IN MID July. ALSO, FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, WE WON'T BE DOING PRINT ISSUES. BOTH THE LORAX AND THE GRINCH HAVE SOME SAY IN THIS.
Prose (fiction, creative non-fiction, flash fiction, essay): no more than 3000 words or about 4 single spaced pages. If you submit something longer (and you can, but no novels, please), we will likely excerpt or publish it over two issues. In this case, please note in your cover letter that you are aware of this policy
Poetry: No more than 60 lines.
Artwork: .jpeg attachment. Both color work and black and white work may be featured. If The Toucan ever goes back to print, all images will be in black and white.
If a submission is accepted but not used in the latest issue, it will be given priority printing in coming issues. Submissions are always open!
Poem of the Week: a feature that highlights a piece, usually a poem but can be flash prose, from our always fruitful submission pile. Appears every Friday except when an issue has been published that week or in times of sheer catastrophe. Poems of the Week, with rare exceptions, are not printed in later issues. (However, we may do a collection of them at some point)
Oh hey. Newly accepted work will wind up in Issue #20, in February.
Multiple and simultaneous submissions are fine (within reason). However, we will only publish two pieces from an author in one issue. PLEASE notify us if submission is simultaneous.
Authors will be notified within a month (at hopefully latest) as to their work’s status.
If your work is accepted, we'll ask you for a three-sentence bio, so be prepared. Work will appear on our site until further notice.
Payment: A publishing credit, the satisfaction of a job well done, and the smiles of adoring readers.
Submissions need to be emailed to thetoucanmag@gmail.com as Word attachments. If you have trouble with attachments or an odd word-processing program, it is fine to copy work into the email body.
Have questions? Email us!
NEXT ISSUE:
ISSUE #22 IN MID July. ALSO, FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, WE WON'T BE DOING PRINT ISSUES. BOTH THE LORAX AND THE GRINCH HAVE SOME SAY IN THIS.
Previous Issues
- art
- Editrice Notes
- Issue 1 December 2008
- Issue 10 Feb 2011 Canada
- Issue 11 May 2011
- Issue 12 July 2011
- Issue 13 October 2011
- Issue 14 December 2011
- Issue 15 February 2012
- Issue 16
- Issue 17 July 2012
- Issue 18 October 2012
- Issue 19 December 2012
- Issue 2 March 2009
- Issue 20 Feb 2013
- Issue 21 May 2013
- Issue 3 (Prom) May 2009
- Issue 4 (Halloween) October 2009
- Issue 5 (V-Day) February 2010
- Issue 6 May 2010
- Issue 7 July 2010
- Issue 8 October 2010
- Issue 9 December 2010
- Our Contributors' Bios
- Poem of the Week
When We Publish
February (special themed issue)
May (Spring)
July (Summer)
October (Fall)
December (Winter)
Issues appear usually on the 1st of each month, except for the February issue, which is mid-month.
May (Spring)
July (Summer)
October (Fall)
December (Winter)
Issues appear usually on the 1st of each month, except for the February issue, which is mid-month.
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- The Toucan has its roots at Columbia College in Chicago, IL. The Toucan is christened as such from past experiences at Brookfield Zoo. It can be reached at thetoucanmag@gmail.com and is also on Facebook.
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