Submission Guidelines for C/Oasis

NOTICE: We are not accepting new submissions until spring of 2007. There is a terrific backlog of manuscripts and the time factor plays largely. If you want to submit to C/Oasis, poetry or prose, keep the manuscript on ice until the thaw of Spring 2007. Thanks for the understanding. David and Vicki.

C/Oasis is published by Sunoasis Publishing. It started in January 1998 and has published some of the finest poets and short story writers around, as well as essayists. The editor is David Eide. Approximately 3,000-4,000 visitors come to Oasis each month. Almost all the work published in C/Oasis is freelance. It usually buys one-time rights. We would prefer if you send 3-5 poems at a time. Vicki Goldsberry is the poetry editor. Her address is sunoasisjobs@earthlink.net. Short stories should not be more than 7,000 words. Essays or reviews should be kept under 4,000 words. Send those to eide491@earthlink.net.

The readers of C/Oasis are a varied bunch. Some are what could be defined as literary writers, even, teachers and professors. Others are students in liberal arts colleges. More than a few are writers themselves, although not necessarily literary writers. The editors are dedicated to bringing the best literature possible to C/Oasis. We are respectful of the variety of styles and regions in the present world. We have published writers from India, Brazil, Costa Rica, Australia, Ghana, as well as America. One thing to note: If you are from outside the US, you need to use PayPal or be able to accept checks drawn on US banks.

We are looking for innovative writing that takes the art seriously. We are looking for impassioned arguments or fantastic voyages.

We are looking for several distinctive types of writing.

  1. Literary work: Mostly poems and stories since those are the appropriate forms for the web. Any work sent to Oasis will be respected. The editors respond to artful poems that have some consciousness of the poetry written in the 20th century. For short stories, interesting twists are more valuable than character analysis.
  2. Personal Essays: Evocative, personalist, complex, wise observations etc. Think Thoreau.
  3. Writing for writers: Articles that deal with problems writers encounter in the electronic publishing age.
  4. Commentary: Take on something in the real world and deal with it, enhance it with resources, and keep it under 2000 words.

We do publish writing resource articles only if they are written with a slant we haven't seen anywhere. We will look carefully at any article that says something intelligent about electronic publishing.

We will pay anywhere from $10-20 for any piece accepted for publication. Poems are usually paid $10 and long articles $20 but it's not a hard and fast thing.

Send your non-poetry contributions to: eide491@earthlink.net Send your poetry contributions to: sunoasisjobs@earthlink.net

IMPORTANT: in the SUBJECT line,'submission/oasis'

Try to send the submission in the body of the e-mail.

Hope to hear from you!

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