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The company that has hosted the Island of Wak-Wak’s homepage for 20 years has gone out of business. This website will go down September 1, 2024. Change your bookmarks to our new website at islandofwakwak.com.
E-mail your work to us by sending 1–3 poems in the body of an e-mail message. In the subject line write Submission: Theme, in which “Theme” is the theme for the issue, for example, “Submission: We Are Monsters All” for Issue 3. If your work requires complex formatting, inform us in the message and attach a PDF file. Include a brief message and an author bio of max 100 words. Send your submission to submissions( A T )islandofwakwak.com. NOTE: Replace ( A T ) with @.
Send an e-mail message to submissions( A T )islandofwakwak.com. NOTE: Replace ( A T ) with @.
In the subject line write Submission: Theme, in which “Theme” is the theme for the issue, for example, “Submission: We Are Monsters All” for Issue 3. Please list the names of your pieces and the media/techniques used. If you are sending artwork for another project use the subject line Submission: Artwork, instead. Include a brief message and an artist bio of max 100 words. Attach pdf, png, jpeg, or svg files only. Send 1–3 works of art. If the files are too large to send in the same e-mail message, you can send separate messages for each work.
If you are sending an ekphrastic response to a piece published in a previous issue of Sublimation, then follow the normal Sublimation guidelines for poetry or art, but mention in the e-mail message that you are sending a piece for the Ekphrastic Afterword and which work was used as inspiration.
Up-coming Open Periods 2024:
Issue 1: Trauma will be open May 1–May 15, 2024. CLOSED
Issue 2: Awe will be open June 1–June 15, 2024. CLOSED
Issue 3: We Are Monsters All will be open July 1–July 15, 2024. CLOSED
Issue 4: Every Party Needs a Bard will be open August 1–August 31, 2024. UPCOMING
Issue 5: Living in Another World will be open October 1–October 31. UPCOMING
We accept simultaneous submissions, but be courteous and inform us immediately if a piece gets accepted elsewhere.
We do not accept reprints. Please submit new work only.
We accept only human-created poetry and art.
We can’t pay contributors up front yet. However, once an issue has sold over 50 copies, the creators will receive quarterly royalty payments for each copy over 50 that were sold.
We don’t charge submission fees.
If you request it, we’ll send you a PDF of the issue. If you want a print version, you’ll have to buy it via Amazon.
Island of Wak-Wak reserves the right of first publication for all work it publishes. You retain the copyright, but we suggest you wait a month out of curtesy before publishing it elsewhere.
Submission to Island of Wak-Wak and Sublimation constitutes acceptance of these terms.