Guidelines

Duotrope Digest: Describe the ideal submission.
Jami Kali: The ideal submission shares my love affair with words and the syntactical sensual satisfaction they create when combined with the right resources under proper lighting in serving sizes proportionate to the average person's wide-open heart-hole.


DD: What is the best advice you can give people who are considering submitting work to your publication?
JK: Be human, which means, be animal.


That being said:


The Vein publishes 6 online issues and 1 print issue per year. Submissions can be sent to Editor.The.Vein@gmail.com with "Submission" in the subject line. Including the word "submission" lowers the probability that your work will drown in a sea of spam e-mails about sperm and Russian mail-order brides.

Include a short biography with your submission.

Acceptance into The Vein depends upon various factors, including (but not limited to): quality of work, topic(s) of creative reflection, the time of season, the editor’s current substance of choice (or lack of) while reviewing submissions, and whether or not the editor is undergoing a period of sexual/mental/emotional frustration. In other words, it’s all written somewhere in the stars.


If your work is accepted, it will be published online and archived on www.theveinzine.blogspot.com forever. You might also appear in the annual Veinthology.

Material found within The Vein remains the property of its author. If you'd like to use their work somewhere in some way, be nice and ask them first.