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Sylvania Campus Alchemy / Alembic Office
CT Building, Room 104
Phone: 503-977-4793
Web: <http://www.pcc.edu/alchemy>
E-mail: <alchemy@pcc.edu>
Advisor: Tim Barnes
Alchemy, a magazine of Portland Community College student writing and art, is published annually as a class project by the students of Writing 246, Advanced Creative Writing: Editing and Publishing, at the Sylvania Campus. The current edition of Alchemy can be purchased for $5 per copy through the PCC Bookstores and such local merchants as Powell's Books and Annie Bloom's. Past issues are $2.
The same class that produces Alchemy also publishes Alembic, a broadside of literature and art, every term. Students with creative writing backgrounds are invited to register for WR 246 and help produce the next issues of Alchemy and Alembic.
Submitting to Alchemy
Alchemy accepts submissions throughout winter term and the first week of spring term. The student editors gratefully accept and thoughtfully consider contributions of:
fiction (up to 3,000 words)
creative nonfiction (up to 3,000 words)
scripts (up to 3,000 words)
poetry
art (printable in black and white)
photography (to be printed in black and white)
Submissions deadline: April 3, 2009, Friday of the first week of spring term.
Publication date: late May.
You can choose the most convenient way to submit your creative work to Alchemy:
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Copy and paste your work online
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Download a printable PDF submission form or print out an HTML submission form and turn the work in to the editors in CT 104, slip it under the door, give it to any creative writing or art instructor
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E-mail your work as an attachment to <alchemy@pcc.edu>. MS Word preferred for all text attachments. Please include your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, title of work, and type of submission (fiction, nonfiction, script, poetry, art, photo) in the e-mail message.
Submission Guidelines
Manuscript Submissions
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E-mail as MS Word attachments; save in Rich Text Format (.RTF).
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Hard-copy entries should be double-spaced on one side of 8 1/2" by 11" white paper, with numbered pages.
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12-point Times New Roman font preferred. Poetry should be typed as it is to appear. No handwritten material or difficult-to-read fonts.
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Prose manuscripts shouldn't exceed 3,000 words for Alchemy.
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The author’s name should not appear on the work itself, only a title.
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Due to the amount of work received, manuscript submissions cannot be returned.
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Keep a copy of your submission.
Photo & Artwork Submissions
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E-mail as a TIFF attachment if possible.
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Hard-copy photography submisions: Submit a print, no larger than 12" by 17".
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Hard-copy artwork: 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.
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Hard-copy photography and artwork may be picked up the last week of spring term.
Eligibility & Rights
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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.
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The Alchemy/Alembic publishing class protects all rights, and reserves editorial control of all material submitted. 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.
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Work not accepted for Alchemy will be considered for publication in the spring Alembic.
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Available at PCC Bookstore-- Sylvania, Annie Bloom's Books, & Powell's City of Books
Browse through some of our past issues:
 
 
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