PFN – Meat for Tea: The Valley Review Seeking Submissions on the Theme: “Jerky”

We use Duosuma. Please DO NOT send submissions via email.
You will be instructed to re-submit via Duosuma.

Please read ALL the submission guidelines below carefully before proceeding.

A few important notes:
•Always include a third-person bio. Pronoun preferences are encouraged!
•Don’t send untitled images, unless they are truly untitled, then please specify.
•Don’t send low-res images with the intent on sending higher-res images upon approval
– our timeline is TOO TIGHT to allow this! – Send print-ready files only, please!
•Don’t send anything but finished, clean copy. (Same reason – our timeline is too tight!)
•AI generated content will be summarily rejected. Please don’t bother.
•We do not have time to send individual proofs of your work in the layout.
And again, please read all of the guidelines below before submitting.

After reading all the guidelines carefully, please email if you have any questions!
Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES – PLEASE READ THOROUGHLY:

Writers: Writing submissions should be works of poetry and short prose no longer than 1500 words in length,
8000 words for short fiction and essays, 1200 words for flash and microfiction.

Please only send CLEAN COPY. We do not edit copy.
If a work is accepted for publication, it appears letter-for-letter as submitted.
Submissions with obvious typographic errors will be rejected.
We reserve the right to format copy to our layout standards.
Please also note that due to tight deadline and printing timelines,
revisions likely will not be even possible after a work is accepted.
Therefore, please only submit works you’re fully confident in having published.

All writing should be sent as an editable document,  ideally Microsoft Word Format (.doc or .docx,) or RTF.
Be aware that any formatting you use in your document will be changed to fit our layout specifications.
Don’t get fancy unless you have something that is required for the piece (such as special formatting for a poem.)
We STRONGLY encourage very general formatting for most written work.
Your font will be changed, we don’t use indents for paragraph breaks, and we will re-format as needed.
Please keep the formatting simple.
See below, as well.

Embedded images in a text document might lead to rejection, due to difficulty in layout.
If you feel you must have embedded images, please email us before submitting.

IMPORTANT: PDF is NOT an acceptable file format, except for the rare case of a work depending strictly on physical formatting and font(s).
Please email us FIRST if you want to submit a PDF for a text piece.
(WHEN IN DOUBT, DON’T SEND PDF UNLESS YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY SURE THE TEXT MUST BE IN A STRICT FORMAT.
This basically means, if you’re using unusual fonts and/or formatting that is absolutely critical to the piece.)

SO:
DISCLAIMER: We shall still reserve the right to reformat PDF submissions to fit our layout standards.
Submitting as PDF is not an assurance that we will print the item as it looks in the PDF. Additionally, if we are forced to re-format from a PDF we will not be responsible for errors in the format conversion.
If you have questions about this policy regarding your work, please contact us via email before submitting.

Must include a third-person bio, 100 words maximum.

No submitting written work via email or a file transfer service unless requested. Please use Duosumo.

Due to time constraints, physical submissions via regular mail will NOT be considered for inclusion.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as the submitter notifies us IMMEDIATELY  upon their work being accepted elsewhere. The best way to notify us of a piece accepted elsewhere when submitting  through Duosuma is to immeditely withdraw the piece. There is no assurance we will know it is withdrawn unless
you withdraw it directly through Duosuma. Email is inadaquate for withdrawls for Duosuma submissions.
If we accept a submission, it will be printed. Our timeline is so tight that there is no other option.

Please note: you are free to withdraw a piece for any reason via Duosuma  unless we have accepted it for publication. We don’t “hold work hostage”.

Also note: due to the frequently large volume of submissions and our limited publication space, sometimes we may not get to accepting or rejecting a submission during the submission cycle in which it was presented.

Submission fee: $4.75  The small submission fee is to help defray the cost of shipping physical contributor’s copies.