Alembic Magazine of Literature and Art

Alembic is designed, edited, and published by the same student editors who produce the PCC-Sylvania  annual magazine of literature and art, Alchemy. Anyone who is interested in learning about editing and publishing by actually working on literary publications is encouraged to consider taking Writing 246, Advanced Creative Writing--Editing and Publishing, whose class members form the editorial boards of Alembic and Alchemy.

Submitting to Alembic

Alembic accepts submissions up to the eighth week of fall term and up to the seventh week of  winter and spring terms. Deadlines are generally Monday of the eighth week for fall term and Monday of the seventh week for winter and spring.

In the 2007-2008 academic year, Alembic will be published only winter and spring terms.

• Deadline for the next issue: May 12th, 2008

To submit to Alembic:

Print out an HTML submission form or pick up a hard copy of a submission form at CT 104, and turn the work in to  the editors in CT 104, slip it under the door, or give it to any creative writing instructor

or

E-mail your writing as an MS Word attachment or e-mail a scan of your artwork to <alembic@pcc.edu>. Please include your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, title of work, and type of submission (fiction, nonfiction, script, poetry, art, photo).

Submission Guidelines

•  Include one of these forms for each separate item (available at CT 104 or online).
• Turn work in to the editors in CT 104, slip it under the door, give it to any creative writing instructor, or e-mail it as an MS Word (text) or TIFF (graphic) attachment to <alembic@pcc.edu>.
• Publication dates: end of fall, winter, and spring terms

Manuscript submissions

• E-mail as MS Word attachments; save in Rich Text Format (.rtf).
• Hard-copy entries should be double-spaced on one side of 8 1/2" by 11" white paper, with numbered pages.
• 12-point Times Roman font preferred. Poetry should be typed as it is to appear.  No handwritten material. 
• Prose manuscripts shouldn't exceed 1,000 words for Alembic.
• The author's name should not appear on the work itself, only a title.
• Due to the amount of work received, manuscript submissions cannot be returned.
• Keep a copy of your submission.

Photo/artwork submissions

• E-mail as a TIFF attachment.
• Hard-copy photography submissions: Submit a print, no larger than 12" by 17".
• Hard-copy artwork submissions: Submit the original or a clean print, no larger than 12" by 17". Please state the medium used.  No framed artwork or original canvases accepted. Black and white photos of the works are fine.
• Hard-copy photography and artwork may be picked up the last week of the term.

Eligibility & Rights

• Anyone may submit their work; 20 percent of each publication is devoted to non-student work, and 80 percent to PCC student work. Students needn't be in a creative writing, art, photography, or graphics class to submit. All submissions must be new, original, previously unpublished work; model releases are the responsibility of contributing artists and photographers. Payment in copies.
• The Alchemy/Alembic publishing class reserves editorial control of all material submitted and protects all rights. Alchemy/Alembic acquires first North American serial and online publication rights of material selected for publication; authors and artists retain all other rights to the material.