SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

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WITH INTRODUCTORY AUTHOR, LAURA ROSE SCHWARTZ

READING PERIOD OPENS MARCH 1, 2022

Thorncraft Publishing is pleased to announce an open reading period for Volume Four of our yoga book series. BreatheYourOMBalance: Sustenance & Sustainability 

NO ENTRY OR READING FEES

Beginning writers are welcome. Open to all women, men, and transgender practitioners of yoga. All levels of yoga practitioners are welcome. Free to submit your work.

Open Call for Writing: Submissions are officially open on March 1, 2022. 

Please, follow the guidelines below. 

BreatheYourOMBalance® is a creative writing journal of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry about yoga. This is a paperback book.

What kind of writing do we want? Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction about yoga and the theme of sustenance and sustainability. This allows you to write on topics such as how your yoga practice sustains you, foods that sustain you, how the earth sustains us, and what we need/want to do to sustain ourselves and the earth. These are a few examples of how to apply the theme.

Guidelines for Email & Workshop Submission Process:

1. Email period: We are currently accepting submissions for BreatheYourOMBalance. Submissions open on March 1, 2022.  Submission period closes at 11:59 p.m. CST on June 1, 2022.

2. For poetry, please submit no more than three poems. 

For nonfiction, no more than two pieces (5,000 words maximum total). 

For fiction, no more than two pieces (5,000 words maximum total). 

You can submit in every category and may email them in one email. Fiction and nonfiction may be part of a longer work, but must be able to stand alone.

Please, make no more than two submissions per category. If we want additional writings from you, we will request them.

​3. Work should focus on the theme of Sustenance & Sustainability as related to Yoga and/or meditation practice(s). Work should be Creative, Not Instructional.

4. We are only accepting previously unpublished work (this includes public blogs...do not submit work that is already on a public blog).

5. Email your entry in the body of an email or as a word document only (.doc and .docx) to breatheyourombalance[at]gmail.com between March 1, 2022, and 11:59 p.m. CST June 1, 2022, to be eligible for consideration. 

6. Email instructions: In the subject line of your email, include Breathe Vol 4 Submission: Poetry, Fiction, and/or Nonfiction (as appropriate).

Include a title page with your name, email address, title of work(s), genre(s) and word count(s), contact information of an address and/or phone number where we may notify you if you are chosen as a contributor. 

Attach your creative writing to the email or paste into the body of the email. 

7. To submit, you should be at least eighteen-years-old, as we do need your permission to distribute your story worldwide.

Confidentiality: Your personal information will never be shared with third parties.

Notifications: Allow up to three months following the final deadline for a response from us. We will post the announcement as soon as the contributors are chosen and we expect to do so without delay. Please, do not email us any questions about the submission process or ask about the status of your submission(s). We will contact you as soon as possible. Thorncraft Publishing will accept simultaneous submissions, but please in this instance notify us immediately if your work has been accepted by another publication. Contributors whose work is selected for the journal will be notified and asked for a biography (contributors can opt not to include a biography). All contributors' biographies will be printed in the book and their names (and/or pen names) will be listed on all platforms and websites that allow for full length listings. Their names or pen names and biographies may be posted on the website: http://www.thorncraftpublishing.com

RIGHTS and Permissions: If your work is chosen for inclusion in the journal, Thorncraft Publishing acquires first North American publication rights, which means that after publication, the rights of your work revert back to you. As a courtesy, we ask that you wait one year before seeking subsequent publication of the same work and that you include a credit to Thorncraft and BreatheYourOMBalance journal if your work from this journal is included in subsequent publications. In our permissions, we require the option to share and promote selections from the work you have contributed on our social media and website. After all, if we like your work, we want to share it. If your work is chosen, we will mail one complimentary copy of the book to you upon publication. If chosen, we will offer you a discounted rate to purchase up to 20 copies from the publisher. All specificities will be listed in the contracts to the chosen contributors.

We are truly honored to read your work and that you would want to share your stories with us in BreatheYourOMBalance. Thank you for allowing us to read your words and stories. We understand the courage it takes to share your words and practice, and we will treat each one as a gift, whether they are chosen to appear in the book or not.
Good luck, and we look forward to reading your submissions.