REGARDING  SPOT LITERARY MAGAZINE:

Spot Lit Magazine <http://www.spotlitmagazine.net> is a biannual journal published by Spot Write Literary Corporation, a nonprofit California public benefit corporation, with federal tax-exempt status. 

Address subscription and administrative correspondence to:  SLM, 4729 E. Sunrise Dr., Box 254, Tucson, AZ 85718-4535.  Via email, you may reach the editior <susan.hansell@gmail.com> or the publisher <gpuyeno@hotmail.com>.

Sustaining subscriptions are $25 US per year, which includes first-class mailing costs.  Single issues are $10 in person or $12.50 when mailed.  Checks are payable to "Spot Write Literary Corporation."  SPOTLIT is also available at Acres of Books and at Open Books, both in Long Beach, CA; and at Shakespeare and Company, Paris, France.

Spot Literary Magazine Vol. 1 No. 1 features work by Suzanne Allen, Brendan Constantine, Elizabeth Fenimore, Grim, Susan Hansell, Chris Jara, Jennifer Lester, Lori Lubeski, Rachel Maize, Bill Mohr, Joshua Peralta, Connie Pham, Jonathan Rapp, Mallory Reeves, Neal Storrs, and Gerald Uyeno. 

Spot Literary Magazine Vol. 1 No. 2 features work by Suzanne Allen, Tobi Cogswell, Brendan Constantine, Steve De France, Lainee Frizzo, Elizabeth Fenimore, Mark Gurarie, Susan Hansell, Natalie Hurter, Elizabeth Iannaci, Jennifer Lester, Lori Lubeski, Julianna McCarthy, Bill Mohr, Greggory Moore, Joshua Peralta, Connie Pham, Jonathan Rapp, John G. Rodwan, Jr., Neal Storrs, Robert L. Wells, and Gerald Uyeno.

Spot Literary Magazine Vol. 2. No. 1 features work by Jeffrey Alfier, Suzanne Allen, David Barnes, Tobi Cogswell, Steve De France, Elizabeth Fenimore, Mark Guarie, Susan Hansell, David E. Howerton, Elizabeth Iannaci, Matthew Karver, Michelle Lauren Kay, Hari Bhajan Khalsa, Curtis Last, Jennifer Lester, Greggory Moore,  Christopher Mulrooney, Jonathan Rapp, John G. Rodwan, Jr., Luke Salazar, Neal Storrs, Robert L. Wells, and Gerald Uyeno.

Order SLM via correspondence or email (see above), or at selected bookstores, including Acres of Books and Open Books, both in Long Beach, CA.

SLM accepts submissions from January 1 through March 1 for spring issues, and from August 1 to October 1 for fall issues. 

Submissions are considered for acceptance via email only.  Texts must be sent as Microsoft Word files in (simple) TIMES CE (or Times New Roman if you do not have TIMES CE) font.  Send black and white photos or art work in grayscale JPEG file format. 

Send two or three poems, and/or one short story or short play, essay, etc., as word.doc or attachments to <susan.hansell@gmail.com> with the subject header:  Spot Lit Mag.  Send each text as a separate word.doc attachment, but the separate attachments may be sent in the same email.  Please type your name, snail-mail address, and your phone number in the regular email body window to which you are attaching your work/s.

Black-and-white photos and black-and-white artwork are desirable (please send as jpegs), as are cross-genre works.  Authors and artists receive one free perfect-bound copy of SLM, limited-time internet publication (with permission; the take-down date is the publication of the subsequent issue), and one sponsored reading for contributors local to the Southern California and/or to the South Western area/s.

To place your address on the SLM email notification list, please email the editor <susan.hansell@gmail.com>.

The Fall 2008 SLM issue will be themed.  The theme for the upcoming issue is:  The world/"the" world/a world/your world.  Works that create a world of their own, or which respond to the world as we/you/someone/anyone "knows" it or experiences, etc., will be eligible for consideration beginning August 1, 2008.  Works need not be written expressly for this issue in order to be considered.

For more information on any and all of the above, please visit the website dedicated to SLM which is now online at (and link here to) www.spotlitmagazine.net.





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