Forbidden Donut relies heavily on submissions to publish . . . we welcome submissions from any source. You may send writing via e-mail to wwood@earthlink.net but we prefer to receive submissions through normal mail to the address above. We welcome queries and comments from e-mail, but actual submissionscan get difficult.
Submissions should be disposable copies - if you want your story back, you should explicitly tell us so. We don't require submissions to be typed but if we can't read it, it won't get read. Make sure you remember to include your name and address, and a short one page or less bio would be nice, just so you're more than a name on a page. All manuscripts will be published as we receive them with the exception of spelling and punctuation errors - they will be corrected. If you have a compelling reason for an abnormal spelling, be sure to tell us.
Forbidden Donut publishes all varieties of writing - we will consider anything; however, there are a few things that are very unlikely to be accepted. These are poetry, romance, western, or erotica. We also dislike submissions that are only a few paragraphs or lengthy narratives that end up with no plot, direction, or point. Stories should not be much more than10,000 words. We are open to memoirs and any other form of non-fiction as well, although the main content of the publication is fiction.
The best advice we can give as to what kind of story we might accept is conflict & dialogue. Conflict and dialogue tend to keep the story moving and keep the reader interested, while drawn out descriptions of everything in sight cause the reader to bog down and become bored. Many great stories don't follow this rule, but those are much more difficult to write.
Most of the writing in Forbidden Donut is illustrated either with pen & ink or black & white photography, so if you have any specific ideas for illustrations or photos to accompany your story, please include them. We won't guarantee that we'll use them, but there's a good chance we will.Forbidden Donut pays $1.00 for each story, as well as a free copy of the issue in which the story appears. The point of the dollar is that you can say you're a professional writer, and all writing supplies and books you buy are a tax write-off. Well, that's about it. We look forward to reading your stories.
Jon Cazares
Brian Wood
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