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The Literary Review: 2024


The deadline for submission is February 28, 2024.


Each branch will be in charge of selecting the stories and poems that best represent the highest writing from their branch. The number of selections that a branch can submit will be determined by their membership. 50 members or less = one story and one poem. 51 to 100 = two stories and two poems. Etc.

Stories will be chosen in various ways.

  1. Publish a branch anthology, with winners that get submitted.
  2. Publish an anthology and form an unbiased committee to judge their stories and poems and select the ones that represent the best writing of their branch (some branches are trading anthologies for judging).
  3. Have a short contest, giving their members a few weeks to submit stories and then give a panel of unbiased judges a few weeks to choose the winners.

All submissions will be sent to Mike Apodaca, president of the High Desert Branch. (MrDaca.ma@gmail.com) The High Desert Branch will compile the anthology and submit it to the CWC for approval and publication. After it is approved, the book will be published through KDP. Those who have a story or poem published will receive a free hard copy (supplied by and paid for by the member’s branch). Everyone else in the CWC will receive a link to download a free PDF of the publication. The Literary Review will also be available on Amazon.com in both printed and e-book formats.

Deadlines and Contact Information:

All submissions must be thoroughly edited before they are submitted. 

Timeline: 

February 28, 2024: submission deadline: All submissions must be submitted to Mike Apodaca by midnight on this date.

April 30, 2024: Literary Review will be completed and submitted to the CWC for approval.

May 31, 2024: Publication of the 2024 Literary Review.

Contact Information:

Those branches with questions about the submission process should direct them to Mike Apodaca at MrDaca.ma@gmail.com. Those with specific questions about format and subject acceptability should direct their questions to Mike Raff at mprseven@aol.com

Submission Guidelines:

Traditional publishing conventions regarding religion, violence, and sexuality will be enforced.

Put submissions in the provided template. Works shall be as error free as possible and formatted using Times New Roman 12 point font. There is a maximum word count of 5,000 words per submission.

 

PROSE SUBMISSIONS:

  • Center the title on the first line.
  • Type the author’s name exactly as they wish it to appear in the book (including any professional titles, if desired, such as John Smith, MD) on the second line.
  • Type the author’s branch on the third line.
  • Leave the fourth line blank.
  • Do not indent the first paragraph of a work or the first paragraph after a scene break or at the start of a new chapter. 
  • Scene breaks should be indicated by centering three asterisks with a space between each.
  • Indent all other paragraphs by 0.35 inch.

No not use block formatting. Do not put a blank line between paragraphs or enable Word’s default spacing between paragraphs. (This can be eliminated by making sure both the BEFORE and AFTER boxes in the SPACING section on the LAYOUT tab in Word are set to zero. See the screenshot below.) 

 

  • All work is to be submitted in either DOC or DOCX format.

 

POETRY SUBMISSIONS:

  • Center the title on the first line.
  • Type the author’s name exactly as they wish it to appear in the book (including any professional titles, if desired, such as John Smith, MD) on the second line.
  • Type the author’s branch on the third line.
  • Leave the fourth line blank.
  • Poets may use whatever line spacing they prefer. However, if other than single spacing is used, the stanza breaks must be absolutely clear.
  • Poets may use whatever formatting on the page they prefer: left justified, indented, centered, etc. Editor will make every effort to recreate the work in the publication exactly as it is submitted.
  • Poets must submit their works in both DOC/DOCX and PDF formats so the editor can see the exact formatting the poet intended for the work.

 

ALL AUTHORS:

As an aid to those submitting, a Word template file is included with these instructions. The Literary Review will be formatted using a 6” X 9” page size, 0.5” margins all around, and a 0.3” gutter with “Mirror Margins” enabled, Widows/Orphans and hyphenation disabled. 

 

  • Do not include any headers or footers, including page numbers.
  • Each work must include the author’s short bio (150 words +/-).  Bio should be separated from submission by several blank lines or by other visual means. While submissions will not be edited, the editor reserves the right to edit an author’s bio for voice, style consistency, and/or length.
  • Each author is responsible for keeping a copy of their submission. The High Desert Branch will not be responsible for keeping any copies of submitted works.
  • Works previously published in the Literary Review will not be accepted.

 

AUTHOR’S RELEASE FORMS:

Each author must sign a release form that acknowledges the following:

By submitting an entry, author represents and warrants that entry: (a) is author’s original creation; (b) does not violate or infringe any copyright, trademark, privacy, or publicity rights, or other proprietary or intellectual property rights of any person or entity; (c) is not defamatory, libelous, obscene, overtly proselytizing, or illegal for any reason; and, (d) is author’s sole and exclusive property. Author further represents and warrants to hold complete, worldwide distribution rights.

Author understands that they retain the rights to their work, but any royalties and/or profits from the sale of the 2024 Literary Review will go to the CWC.

Submissions are to be sent from each branch as an attachment to an email or emails addressed Mike Apodaca at MrDaca.ma@gmail.com. Subject line must read: LITERARY REVIEW SUBMISSION.

Signed, completed, and dated authors’ release forms must be submitted at the same time as the submissions, either attached to the same email or a separate email. Or they may be sent via text to 760-985-7107.





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Launched only a few years ago, The Literary Review is on its way to establishing itself as a CWC institution — a juried collection of superior poems, stories, fiction, and nonfiction by members of the California Writers Club.

Here’s the 2021 Literary Review.

The Literary Review is a juried collection of poems, stories, fiction, and nonfiction by members of the California Writers Club.  The next Literary review will be published in 2024. A date for submissions is to be determined. 

Here’s the 2022 Literary Review.

Copies of the 2022 CWC Literary Review are available on Amazon.

And here’s the 2021 Literary Review.

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