Proposed themes for this year’s issues

Vol 26 No 1 – March 31, 2013
Theme: Class, Caste – Cultural labels?
Due date: March 1st and April 15th

Vol 26 No 2 – June 30, 2013
Theme: Women and Health
Due date: June 1st and July 15th

Vol 26 No 3 – September 30, 2013
Theme: Music of Protest
Due date: September 1st and October 15th

Vol 26 No 4 – December 31, 2013
Theme: Literary Issue
Due date: December 1st and January 15th

Guidelines

Montreal Serai is always soliciting new ideas/materials from outside its geographical purview: on the arts/culture/politics. Articles should be well written, and no more than 3000 words.

We accept reviews of all kinds, arts, politics, culture, music, literature and film. We also accept political cartoons. We’re open to new information and regard every submission with the utmost respect.

Montreal Serai respects Access copyright understanding on intellectual property rights. We do not publish without permission and acquiescence of the writer.

See Submission Guidelines below.

Submit to: submissions@montrealserai.com

Comments in General: talkback@montrealserai.com

Snail Mail:
Montreal Serai
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Submission Guidelines:

Montreal Serai welcomes your own original submissions of prose, poetry or fiction which may not exceed 3,000 words.  It reserves the right to reject any submission that does not meet its standards or mandate and will not entertain  violent or sexually explicit material or material that  does not respect human dignity or offends minorities on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, disabilities or personal beliefs.

A maximum of eight photographs will be allowed in the case of visual art in .jpeg, pdf and tiff files. Videos should be in mpeg format and compressed.   Submissions should be made in the body of the email or in an attachment thereto. Snail-mail submissions are also accepted and must include an email address for acknowledgement and urgent communications. Photographs and texts will not be returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope.  The owner of the work retains all rights and allows M/S  to publish it in one issue and to archive it for posterity. If the contributor is found to have violated M/S guidelines the submission will be withdrawn from the issue. M/S is not responsible nor can it be held liable for any consideration if other sites reprint a M/S article without M/S’s permission. All sites seeking to reprint a piece from M/S must obtain M/S’s permission first and clearly state that it is a reprint from M/S. Contributors are not normally paid since M/S is a free magazine run entirely by volunteers. However, if  there are funds left over from Canada Council for the Arts subsidies  after operating expenses are taken care of,  these are pro-rated and ex-gratia payments are then made to those contributors whose work has been published at least two or more times in M/S.

Submission deadlines are 1 March (push 15 April), 1 June (push 15 July), 1 September (push 15 October) and 1 December (push 15 January). Publication begins at the end of those months with regular updates of articles to the site over the course of the following month. Kindly send an author’s biography of no more than 25 words. By submitting via email or snail-mail, the author is deemed to have accepted M/S’s terms and conditions. Snail-mail submissions must be signed by the author, otherwise they will not be entertained.