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How to Contribute to the Next Issue of Latitudes
In our Transitions Column in this issue of Member News, we note the passing of the torch from Bob Lupo to Margaret Zacharias as managing editor of the Guild’s online literary journal, Latitudes. Just before Christmas, Diann Wilson, the moderator of Write On! a program featured on the Guild’s YouTube channel, interviewed Margaret. If you haven’t yet watched this video, you can access it by clicking on the picture below to watch the interview.
The interview provides a good introduction to Margaret, her background in publishing and her efforts to ensure the continuation of Latitudes. Of particular importance to you, our members, is the discussion about how to submit your best work for consideration for publication in the 2024 issue of Latitudes.
The submissions window is open now and will remain open until midnight, January 31, 2024. Margaret emphasizes that this is a firm deadline—no submissions will be accepted after that date. Publication is targeted for June 1, 2024.
The interview provides a good introduction to Margaret, her background in publishing and her efforts to ensure the continuation of Latitudes. Of particular importance to you, our members, is the discussion about how to submit your best work for consideration for publication in the 2024 issue of Latitudes.
The submissions window is open now and will remain open until midnight, January 31, 2024. Margaret emphasizes that this is a firm deadline—no submissions will be accepted after that date. Publication is targeted for June 1, 2024.
If you are new to the Guild and need explicit instructions about how to go about submitting your work for evaluation by Latitudes’ team of editors (or even if you are not so new but want to see how the guidelines have changed), guidelines for this issue are posted on the Guild’s website. The proper page can be accessed here. Then just click on the box that says “submission guidelines”.
The submission guidelines are lengthy, but there is an annotated index that will help you find your way through them:
Index to Guidelines
FORM B: Manuscript Formatting Checklist
FORM C: Partial List of LLM/GPT Writing Software Prohibited for Use in Preparing your Submission for Latitudes V 2024
New this year is a prohibition on using any generative artificial intelligence program in creating the content of your submission. Latitudes wants your work. One reason for prohibiting the use of generative artificial intelligence programs is that they may derive some of their content from previously published material that is protected by copyright. The use of a generative artificial intelligence program to help you write your work could, therefore, result in unknown, inadvertent, unintentional, and unrecognized plagiarism of the expression of original ideas of other people, and/or the published written work of other authors
If you have any questions after you have watched the video and as you read through the guidelines, please contact the managing editor, Margaret Zacharias, at: [email protected]. Part of her job is to guide you through the submission process if you need help.
When you are finally ready to submit your manuscript, email it to Margaret as an attachment to your cover email.
A truly outstanding literary journal depends on member submissions that represent the full range of diverse author voices we enjoy in Hawaii Writers Guild.
Good luck, one and all!
Index to Guidelines
- General Guidelines
- Key Elements We Look For, by Genre
- Submission Procedures and Requirements
- Genre of Submission Maximum Word Counts
- Previous Publication
- Submission Steps
FORM B: Manuscript Formatting Checklist
FORM C: Partial List of LLM/GPT Writing Software Prohibited for Use in Preparing your Submission for Latitudes V 2024
New this year is a prohibition on using any generative artificial intelligence program in creating the content of your submission. Latitudes wants your work. One reason for prohibiting the use of generative artificial intelligence programs is that they may derive some of their content from previously published material that is protected by copyright. The use of a generative artificial intelligence program to help you write your work could, therefore, result in unknown, inadvertent, unintentional, and unrecognized plagiarism of the expression of original ideas of other people, and/or the published written work of other authors
If you have any questions after you have watched the video and as you read through the guidelines, please contact the managing editor, Margaret Zacharias, at: [email protected]. Part of her job is to guide you through the submission process if you need help.
When you are finally ready to submit your manuscript, email it to Margaret as an attachment to your cover email.
- Place your name and contact information (phone number, current email address), and the title of the piece, its genre and actual word count, in the cover email.
- To facilitate anonymous consideration for publication, you must send your actual submission manuscript, without your name or identification on any page, but include the title, genre and word count on the first page. Do take a look at Form B, the Manuscript Formatting Checklist.
- Also send, as a second attachment to your cover email, a signed copy of your submission form (FORM A).
A truly outstanding literary journal depends on member submissions that represent the full range of diverse author voices we enjoy in Hawaii Writers Guild.
Good luck, one and all!