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Format and Submission Guidelines

Your stories, essays, etc., are welcome as prose, poetry, comics, collage, or any other sort of artform/media you want, as long as it can be printed in black and white.

Text

Please submit text either:

• In the body of an email
• As a Word file with a .doc extension (NOT .docx! If you have a newer version of word, please check your settings when you save and make sure you're choosing .doc. Thanks!)
• or as an Open Office .odt file

If you're sending a letter or something else that already exists in print and looks cool in print, please send a scan of that, and I'll print it as an image!

Images

Please submit images in the following resolutions and formats:

• Line art should be sent at 600ppi if it is saved in bitmap mode. A TIFF file in bitmap mode saved with LZW compression is preferable.
• Greyscale images should be sent at 300ppi. TIFFs saved with LZW compression are preferable.
• If your TIFF files are too large, PDFs are also fine. If you don't know about modes and TIFFs and all that, a high resolution JPG will suffice, or you can email me for help with formatting your images.
• Photos should be sent at the original size/resolution. If you don't know how to edit photos, just send the original files. If you want to edit it, please keep it at the largest size and resolution possible! Thanks!

Pages will be 5.5" x 8.5" with no bleed, so the active page area will be 5" x 8" ... unless I get some crazy awesome comics/drawings/photos/images that just beg to be printed bigger... in which case I'll probably end up printing it bigger. :)
If you have a landscape oriented image that will look good bigger and can have a fold in the middle, it can be printed as a two-page spread at 10x8".

What else to send

• Your name as you'd like it to appear in print
• If you'd like, a website and/or email address that will be printed alongside your name
• A physical address for your comp copy (now or when the book is ready)

... And where to send it

Please send your submissions (and any questions) to dwjzine (at) gmail (dot) com. Also feel free to send suggestions for a title (for which you'll be credited if I pick yours!).

Deadline

Please have all submissions sent in by September 11th, 2010 at 8:00pm EST.

Okay, that's it! Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments, and spread the word! Thanks!

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