Submission Guidelines for Coppergate Publishing



What to submit


As you may have seen from our Publications page, we are starting out with three different zines, HeartWare, Cybershock, and Mainstreet. We are currently looking for short stories and book excerpts but will accept poetry submissions.
As all three publications will be sent as Email to subscribers and made available via home pages, we expect submissions to be in single spaced ASCII text format.

How to submit


To submit, make sure that your manuscript is in ASCII text form and send it to the editor at jtetro@acs.ucalgary.ca. If you cannot send by Email, you can mail it along with a #10 SASE to:
Coppergate Publishing
Suite 208, Block D
1919 University Dr. N.W.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
T2N 4K6

We are not interested in queries at this time but may assume this necessity should submissions grow to an unmanageable amount.

Criteria for acceptance


Acceptance will be based on the approval of no less than three editors. Changes will not be made to any submission without the approval of the author. Should a manuscript be rejected, a note will be sent to the author explaining he reasons behind the rejection. Note: We are looking for published writers but are mainly interested in new, unpublished authors, trying to get exposure in the writing business. With that in mind, do not send a work that is only in its first draft. Send us the best you can for the Internet community.

Legal matters


As we are simply a EMail/WWW full access site with no significant profit, money cannot be offered as pay for any works. When we expand to print, we will look into payment.

We will work with the author to attain first North American serial rights for any submission chosen for publishing. Once a work has been published, it will be made free to the world wide web community by means of a home page of the publication.


Jason A. Tetro, Editor

copperg@cuug.ab.ca>