General Guidelines

Do not send previously published works. 

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If any of your writing is accepted, Blueline assumes first North American serial rights; all other rights remain the writer's. Please let us know if you have any questions.

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If your work is accepted, we’ll ask you to provide a short bio of 150 words or fewer. Your bio will be included in our Contributors pages. Please also provide us with a current mailing address. We’ll have your contributor’s copy mailed to you from our publisher, Sheridan Press. Please let us know if your mailing address changes at any time.  

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Payment for acceptance is one copy. Let us know in advance, upon acceptance, if you’d like to purchase additional copies. We’ll mail additional copies, along with an invoice.

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After acceptance, if your writing should be republished elsewhere (e.g., in a collection of your own or in an anthology), please let us know and acknowledge Blueline Magazine in the credits. We’re interested in where your writing might go, and we’ll list accomplishments on our website.​

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Submissions Procedures

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Please submit your work only during our submission window. Our submission window runs from July 1st to November 30th, with decisions by late February. As soon as we can, we’ll acknowledge receiving your submission. After that, we’ll respond as quickly as we can with our decisions about acceptances and rejections. Please be patient! Blueline relies on a limited number of editors and interns every year.​

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Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if identified as such. Please notify the editors immediately if a simultaneous submission is placed elsewhere.

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Electronic submissions are encouraged with the following formatting:

 

• Email submissions to blueline@sunypotsdam.edu

• Attach the submission as an MS Word document;
  please do not send links or PDFs

• Identify the genre of work in the email subject line

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We’ll accept hard copies through the mail as well, but any accepted works will need to be transcribed into Word documents (we can help with this as needed).

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Manuscripts may be mailed to:

 

Atten. Blueline Editor

139 Morey Hall, SUNY Potsdam

44 Pierrepont Avenue

Potsdam NY 13676