Not An Island reserves the right to make spelling, grammar, punctuation, and other minor copyediting changes, for correctness and conformity to NAI house style.
Most of the work we receive is publishable. The process is one of selection, not rejection.
Submit prose and artwork by email to jandegrass@dccnet.com with “for NAI” in the subject line.
Submit poetry by email to Rosa Reid creatorsinc77@gmail.com with “for NAI” in the subject line.
Submissions Deadlines:
Winter issue: January 6
Spring issue: April 6
Summer issue: July 6
Fall issue: October 6
Files must be in Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx), Rich Text Format (.rtf), or shared via Google Docs. Articles in Portable Document Format (.pdf) or Pages will not be accepted. Note: Not An Island is published in 6" x 9" format in 12 point font. If it is important to you to keep a line of writing on the same line (e.g. for poetry), you may want to change your page size and font to the above before submitting.
Prose: maximum 2,000 words
Poetry: maximum 2 pages; maximum 3 poems per submission.
Note: we are a magazine of contemporary literature. We believe that poetry is an expression of the true inner voice unrestricted by formal structures of the past, therefore classical rhyming poetry forms (e.g., sonnets, limericks, couplets) are unlikely to be accepted.
If applicable, identify the publication and date the piece you’ve submitted has been previously published.
Images: Minimum 1800 pixels wide; 300 dpi; JPG, TIFF, or PNG.
By submitting their original work, contributors consent to its publication both online and in print in the quarterly journal and anthology. SCWES may also publish the material on its website or in its promotional material. Copyright for all other uses remains with the contributor.
Contributors provide a photo and brief bio.
Works created substantially by Artificial Intelligence must be identified as such.
The decisions of the editor and the board are final.
NAI house style is informed by APA style, with modifications.
Web format (no indents, single-spaced, one line between paragraphs, one space between sentences)
Serial/Oxford comma
No scare quotes or all caps. Use word choice and italics for emphasis.
Em dash or en dash, not hyphen. Remove spaces before and after.
Spell out numbers zero through one hundred; use numerals for numbers over one hundred.
Place commas and periods inside quotation marks.
Dictionary: Canadian Oxford Dictionary.