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Guidelines apply to Skyline Review and all other publications.

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Skyline Magazine is now the new Skyline Review - perfect bound 6 x 9 book, generally 200+ pages. We have no themes. Although we publish quarterly, every winter, spring, summer and fall, we do not necessarily seek out seasonal material. An occasional holiday story or poem will be considered, but on the whole, we look for interesting, quality literature and color cover art of all styles and genre. Skyline Review may be purchased for $16.00 USD which includes shipping. We cannot offer payment or contributor copies.

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Short Story Guidelines:

All Manuscripts Must Be Submitted PRINT READY. We cannot make author revisions after accepted manuscripts have been added to our document. Accepted stories will be printed "as is". We can only correct our formatting errors, spelling or grammatical errors, which should have been caught by the author - prior to submitting a FINAL copy.
Please submit stories in block style without tabs. Use Verdana 8 point font style and size.
ASTERIKS *** must enclose any text that should be italicized. ALL THOUGHTS SHOULD BE ITALICIZED. I wish all manuscripts were submitted this way, she thought. Would be *I wish all manuscripts were submitted this way,* she thought.
EXAMPLE . Skip an extra space between paragraphs and dialogue. We will indent, do the formatting. Adhering to our guidelines will avoid print errors when your story is published in Skyline Review and Literary House Review.
Manuscripts not submitted in this manner will be returned.

We consider 'shorts' and essays of 1500 words.
Short Stories: 4000 word maximum is the norm, however, for exceptional material we'll publish up to 5000 words.
We accept simultaneous submissions, and for our E-Magazines prefer stories that have not been previously published on the Internet.
Skyline PRINT Magazine will not publish previously published material.

Skyline reserves the right to correct errors and restructure sentences if necessary, but we won't re-write a story. Submitting a clean manuscript is the author's responsibility, and the only way to have your story accepted.
Include a brief, third person bio not to exceed 60 words, and a brief synopsis of the story you are submitting.
A short synopsis will help us get back to you more promptly. 75 words would be fine.
Due to a backlog of submissions and lack of resources, we will no longer be able to reply to every submission. If your story is accepted, you will hear from us at our earliest convenience, which could take up to 4 months. This is the primary reason we accept simultaneous submissions, as we do not want to tie your work up. If your story is accepted elsewhere, please advise us so that we may remove your material from our files. We ask for first publishing rights. Thank you for your patience.

Skyline seeks all genre of fresh, well written, new story concepts. Please send your original creations edited for grammar and sentence structure - ready for publication. If our editors like a story, but feel a bit of tweaking is necessary, we'll contact the author with constructive suggestions. We do not critique, but if we feel a story has great potential, we may offer our opinion on story improvement and ask the author if they would like to revise, so it may be accepted for our publications. Please submit clean, edited manuscripts. We suggest you have someone proof your manuscript, such as an editor or a friend, to check grammar and punctuation. Although we do final spelling and grammar checking of stories, "clean" manuscripts receive priority consideration and ultimate publication.

Skyline considers Special Features and Articles. We look for interesting, unique, previously unpublished, original literature. 1500 words maximum. Please use same submission instructions as for stories.

Submit stories on Submission Form

Poetry Guidelines: submit HERE for Skyline Magazine, Poet Express, A Hudson View Poetry Digest, SpinningS...intense tales of life magazine. All publications are quarterly. All submissions will be considered for all of our publications, print and online.

All styles and poetic themes will be considered. Poems can be of any length. Poems should be edited and ready for publication, typed in a combination of lower and upper case or lower case only. Please don't submit poetry typed in all upper case. We will have to return it. In some cases, due to the page layout of our print magazines, we may not be able to retain all poetic formatting. We are unable to email proof galleys to poets prior to publication, so please be certain to submit FINAL COPY per guidelines, ready to print "AS IS". We may on occasion confirm poetry via email, when time permits.
Please submit at least 4 to 6 poems in each submission using ONE Submission Form.
Include a brief bio of about 50 words in THIRD PERSON.

Although we may archive some poems, all poetry remains the sole property of the poets who submit them. Poets reserve all rights to their work, at all times. Read our COPYRIGHT info.

Artists and illustrators retain sole rights to their art, at all times.

Please query before submitting art, with a brief description of your style of work and url of a web site where you art is currently displayed. Our space is limited to 3 pieces of art per issue. Art will not be archived.

Submit poetry HERE

Submit short stories HERE

Problems submitting or questions, email Victoria: skywriterr@aol.com

Please refer to our CALENDAR for submission and publication dates.

*All submissions of stories and poetry will be considered for the publication we feel it would best fit.

To further describe our magazines and our mission: Questions and Answers.

A letter from a poet. An interesting read.

Skyline Review is published four times a year in fine quality print, featuring stories and poetry. Should we not produce a lovely print quarterly issue for any reason, we may provide our readers with a beautiful EMagazine which will be available online.

Although we would like to reply to every email, due to lack of resources, we can only respond to accepted material. If your story or poetry is accepted, you should hear back from us within 2 - 4 months. We always contact authors prior to publication and print to confirm material is still available and has not been published elsewhere. We appreciate your understanding and patience.

A note about Skyline Review prints for Contributors and our Readers: If would like to purchase copies of Skyline Review, the cost is $16.00 a copy, shipped in the continental USA.

Books are elegant and lovely publications, 6 x 9 perfect bound, over 164 pages with full color covers. Skyline Magazine (now Skyline Review) will provide hours of reading pleasure for mature readers ages 18 and up.

Without funding, grants or advertising revenue, Magazine and Digest purchases will help keep our publications in print! While electronic publication is a lovely outlet for everyone to enjoy, there is nothing like 'holding' us in your hands. Words are Forever, Art the unspoken Word. Our magazines are timeless.

Create and Share within the circle of Skyline Literary Community, where we are devoted to small press publication, and will do everything possible to uphold the tradition. We thank our author and artist contributors for helping us produce three of the most brilliant and elegant small press magazines on the market today.

Thank you for being a valued part of the Skyline Literary Arts Community, a virtual colony of talented and dedicated writers and artists.

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