"... whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice."

--Louise Gluck

Next submission period:
December 1st - January 15th.

The First Issue of Riding the Meridian for the year 2000 will focus on:

Women, Gender and Technology

 and is a cooperative venture with CK Tower's Conspire.

Contributing Editor: Carolyn Guertin

 Submissions will not be limited to work by women. Please see our guidelines below.

General Information:

For this issue, we'd specifically like to see work that deals with the issue of women/writing/new technology. Works that utilize multi-media are encouraged.

Riding the Meridian (except in exceptional circumstances) only publishes previously unpublished material. We request attribution to Riding the Meridian to include our web address when/if the work is subsequently republished, and ask that writers refrain from submitting their work to websites elsewhere until the issue in which their work appears enters archives. In return, we promise to actively seek to promote the work of the writers we publish by nominating them for awards within an editor's purview. All other rights revert to the author upon publication.

Submissions Guidelines:

-- Send up to four poems (and/or a url or abstract if your work is in multimedia) in the body of your email message to Riding the Meridian. Please keep the theme in mind when choosing work to submit.

-- Send your work in plain text unless html is necessary to show formatting. No attachments please.

-- We would prefer submissions that are not simultaneous. If you do send us work your are submitting elsewhere, please let us know.

-- Work must be previously unpublished. Workshop and newsgroup postings do not count as publication.

-- Multimedia size limit - 1 Mg total. Please list any special plug-ins necessary to view your work online.

-- Include a short biography.

-- Submission period: December 1st - January 15th.

Please query Jennifer Ley if you have any questions, or ideas for future issues of Riding the Meridian. We will be moving to a bi-annual publication schedule in the coming year.



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