Genres & Theme
Literary Open to all / most themes carte blanche is an initiative that grew out of a QWF workshop in creative nonfiction. Founding members of carte blanche are: Sandy Wolofsky, Jennifer Zakutney, Barbara Rudnicka, Claire Helman, Mary Lynn Deachman, Elise Moser, Rhonda Mullins, and Maria Turner. While it originally focused on Quebec writers, carte blanche is now expanding to become an international publication. We are now accepting submissions from all over the world. carte blanche is looking for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for its spring issue. Send us your odes, sonnets, free verse, short stories of all types and genres, memoirs, personal essays, book reviews, literary journalism, musings on the writing process—as long as it's well written we'll consider it. TEMPORARILY CLOSED: Temporarily closed to submissions.	Go To: Website Report: Submission/Response Correction/Update New Web Design
Lengths
Poetry (varies, read guidelines) Short Story (1,000 - 3,500 words)
Media
Electronic Publication
Payscale
Does Not Pay in real-world money for Short Fiction Does Not Pay in real-world money for Poetry
Other Info
Accepts electronic submissions only
No simultaneous submissions allowed
No reprints accepted
No multiple submissions allowed
Published 2 x per year
Canada
Response Times
Show Overall Short Fiction Poetry   No response times have been reported for this market.
Market Added: 08 May 2008 Last Updated: 08 May 2008 Last Checked: 15 May 2008

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