SUBMISSIONS CLOSED UNTIL FALL 2020.

Submissions will reopen on Feb 1, 2020 and remain open until March 15, 2020. Electronic version will post around April 1, 2020, and Print will come out around April 15, 2020.

There is no theme, as always, but I am looking to accept more fringe type material. I’m not sure what that means either, but instinct is telling me to get more in the margin. Broad voices, distinctive vision.  LGBTQIA+ welcome.

There are few rules:

Note: These are new as of March 3, 2020

• All SUBMISSIONS must be sent to heroinlovesongs@gmail.com.  The subject line should appear as such, SUBMISSION – HLS – Your last name.
• All SUBMISSIONS must be embedded into the body of an email OR attached as a word document.
• Poetry – 2-5 poems. Shorter poems are preferred but I will read anything.  Please no odd spacing or indentation.
• Short Fiction – 1,000 words or less.  No more than 3 pieces.
• CNF, Essay, Opinion – Query first at Heroinlovesongs@gmail.com
• All SUBMISSIONS must be NEW and ORIGINAL. I check everything through a plagiarizer website.
• Simultaneous accepted but please notify upon other acceptance.
• No previously published.
• First time electronic and print rights, and electronic archival rights.  All rights revert to author after initial publication.
• Heroin Love Songs retains the right to change our minds.  About anything. This would include but is not specific to, changing publication date without prior written and specific notice; changing order of appearance between electronic and written; and, related.  Acceptance does not necessarily confirm, assure, and suggestion inclusion in both print and electronic.  Generally, all acceptances will appear on-line.
• Heroin Love Songs will appear in Fall and Spring, although specific dates are neither implied or specific.  Timing and actual publication subject to change.  Editor, publisher, and/or owner of Heroin Love Songs and all related entities may, without prior written notice or acknowledgement, cease all operations.
• Heroin Love Songs does not provide payment of any form, either barter or cash payment.  Heroin Love Songs retains the right to provide copies of any edition to specific individuals as seen fit and proper.  This would generally any individual that provided substantive assistance, guidance or input to any action within the realm of selection, editing, and/or publishing.
• Heroin Love Songs upholds all tenets of the 1st Amendment.  Freedom of Speech and Expression are core tenets of HLS.  However, any item considered inappropriate, hateful, violent, or incitement of violence will summarily be discarded without further consideration.
• Don’t suck.

and a note of advice: Please include a cover letter.  it can be a sentence or two.  i am tired of just getting the poem or just the fiction.

send to heroinlovesongs@gmail.com

I don’t charge a reading fee.  I don’t comment on rejected items. 

HEROIN LOVE SONGS is not for profit in any form.  All printed material will be listed at cost.  Proof of “at-cost” can be provided.