O:JA&L Free Presses: Imprints of OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters. Open call for chapbook submissions: Mixed Forms as Haibun or Tanka Prose

O:JA&L Free Presses An imprint of OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters Open call for chapbook submissions: Mixed Forms as Haibun or Tanka Prose

O:JA&L and its several imprints will consider chapbook collections of 20 (minimum) to 44 (maximum) pages of mixed-form writing as haibun or tanka prose. Submitters should include an acknowledgments page if any individual works have been previously published. A table of contents and an acknowledgments page are not included as part of the page count.

Submit the manuscript as a single document. Begin each individual title on a new page within the document. .docx files are preferred. Follow other general O:JA&L guidelines that may apply. Simultaneous submissions are accepted in this category with the understanding that O:JA&L Free Presses will be notified promptly if a piece under consideration here is accepted elsewhere. A cover letter should include the writer's contact information, the title of the work, and the writer's professional biography of up to 100 words in third person.

O:JA&L and its imprint presses claim first international rights, first North American rights, and the right to archive in perpetuity the accepted chapbook on its website.  

Expedited evaluation of your submission is not available in this category. 

Conditions:  Chapbooks accepted for publication will be released to readers as free PDFs through the O:JA&L website and will enjoy limited distribution via Patreon as O:JA&L subscriber premiums. No ISBNs will be associated with these titles. Copyright for the PDF versions of these chapbooks and for O:JA&L Free Presses' related proprietary files will reside permanently with OJAL Art Incorporated, O:JA&L, and O:JA&L’s press imprint and with the writer. OJAL Art Incorporated, as OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L) and its designated press, will provide to each writer of a published PDF chapbook a file of that chapbook useful to most full service commercial printing houses and a free license to produce and distribute a printed version of the writer's published PDF chapbook. For a full description of O:JA&L's rights stewardship model, see https://ojalart.com/editors-advicea-guide-for-submittersojal-free-pressespublishing-and-author-rights-stewardship-overview/