Comments on: Share Your Writing http://whistlingfire.com The Whistling Fire is an open forum where fresh voices can share creative works in progress. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:26:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: whistlingfire http://whistlingfire.com/submission-guidelines/#comment-2433 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:49:28 +0000 http://whistlingfire.wordpress.com/?page_id=5#comment-2433 Linda,

While we’re not sure what you mean by children’s poetry (poetry written by children? For children?). The Whistling Fire accepts all genres within the scope of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; as long as it meets those basic requirements of length and quantity. It is always good when submitting to a journal to read their previous published work to see if you feel your work might be comparable though.

TWF

]]> By: Linda G. Beaty http://whistlingfire.com/submission-guidelines/#comment-2431 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:50:30 +0000 http://whistlingfire.wordpress.com/?page_id=5#comment-2431 Do you accept children’s poetry?

]]> By: whistlingfire http://whistlingfire.com/submission-guidelines/#comment-1956 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:36:05 +0000 http://whistlingfire.wordpress.com/?page_id=5#comment-1956 Jane,
We do not send out acknowledgements upon receiving submissions, we receive far too many submissions for our unpaid and part time staff to do this. And since we do get emails that are not submissions we cannot set up an automated response. Every submission we receive is read and you will get response once our editors have come to a decision.
TWF

]]> By: Jane http://whistlingfire.com/submission-guidelines/#comment-1955 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:51:31 +0000 http://whistlingfire.wordpress.com/?page_id=5#comment-1955 TWF,
do you send out acknowledgement emails upon receiving submissions?

]]> By: whistlingfire http://whistlingfire.com/submission-guidelines/#comment-1910 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:39:56 +0000 http://whistlingfire.wordpress.com/?page_id=5#comment-1910 Jane,
We do not require a cover letter. Though we do prefer authors send a short third person bio with their submission, this saves us time if your piece is accepted so we do not have to ask you for it at that time. However, all that is important is the work. Bios and cover letters really have no barring on what is accepted and what is not, and long cover letters just make more work for us. We would encourage authors to at least put something in the body of their email even if it is “here is my submission” which will help prevent it from accidentally being sorted into our spam folder but also lets us know this is coming form a person who took the time to email us.

TWF

]]> By: Jane http://whistlingfire.com/submission-guidelines/#comment-1909 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:17:20 +0000 http://whistlingfire.wordpress.com/?page_id=5#comment-1909 do we need to submit a cover letter with the piece that we’re submitting?

]]> By: whistlingfire http://whistlingfire.com/submission-guidelines/#comment-1733 Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:26:10 +0000 http://whistlingfire.wordpress.com/?page_id=5#comment-1733 Gary,

As started we only accept works of fiction, poetry and nonfiction (memoirs, personal essays, etc). We do not publish interviews or reviews.

TWF

]]> By: Gary D. http://whistlingfire.com/submission-guidelines/#comment-1731 Sun, 31 Jul 2011 03:10:09 +0000 http://whistlingfire.wordpress.com/?page_id=5#comment-1731 TWF,

I am a morning show host in NY and am wondering if you accept interviews with various celebrities or writers (transcripts/write ups).

Gary

]]> By: Joe Gillon http://whistlingfire.com/submission-guidelines/#comment-1663 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:09:37 +0000 http://whistlingfire.wordpress.com/?page_id=5#comment-1663 Yikes. No sniping, no novel. The War and Peace stuff was just a joke. Once I got started I couldn’t stop. Maybe it was because I was a math major. But no offense was intended. I mean, did you know how many words were in War and Peace? Aren’t you interested to learn it’s nearly 700,000?

Also, no novel. Hah, I wish. And yes, I did see the 3000 limit and yes, I did see the word “excerpt”. My question was simply, could I break a 3000+ word story into 3000 word segments? And if I understand the editor correctly the answer would be yes, if each segment could stand alone. Which it can’t. So this is me bidding you all adieu.

]]> By: OneGirlRiot http://whistlingfire.com/submission-guidelines/#comment-1660 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:54:23 +0000 http://whistlingfire.wordpress.com/?page_id=5#comment-1660 I was a little confused by his question—it seemed he was asking what of all that’s in your pile of submissions has more than 3000 words. Right?

The answer would be nothing, because anything over 3000 words is rejected. One would know this automatically because it is in the first paragraph at the top of this page. Also mentioned up there is the word “excerpt,” which most writers understand is not a “segment,” per se, but a contained piece that gives the reader an idea of what the complete work is about.

Now, if one reads Joe’s question intuitively, one may discern that he perhaps meant to write ‘if’ instead of ‘of. While the underlying question is the same, there’s an underlying assumption here as well. Joe apparently has a novel, and he wants the editor to bend the 3000 word rule rather than take the time to create an excerpt himself.

This is not promising.

What is also troubling is that Joe chose to snipe at the editor rather than accept that The Whistling Fire does not accept works that go over 3000 words.

Perhaps if Joe were not to think of it as a segment but as a microcosm of his novel as a whole he could submit an excerpt the editor could accept.

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