2007 Special Issue
Crab Orchard Review: A Journal of Creative Works

Come Together: Occasions, Ceremonies, & Celebrations

Crab Orchard Review is seeking work for our Summer/Fall 2007 issue focusing on writing inspired or informed by the experiences, observations, and/or cultural and historical possibilities of the following topic: Come Together: Occasions, Ceremonies, & Celebrations.

We are open to work that covers any of the multitude of ways that our world, our media, and ourselves mark the public and private, communal, familial, and individual holidays, rituals, and rites of passage we define and define ourselves around.

All submissions should be original, unpublished poetry, fiction, orliterary nonfiction in English or unpublished translations in English (we do run bilingual, facing-page translations whenever possible). Please query before submitting any interview.

Mail submissions to:

CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW
Occasions, Ceremonies, & Celebrations issue
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
MC 4503, Faner Hall 2370
1000 Faner Drive
Carbondale, IL 62901

The submission period for this issue is August 1, 2006 through October 31, 2006. We will be reading submissions throughout this period and hope to complete the editorial work on the issue by mid-February. Writers whose work is selected will receive $20 (US) per magazine page ($50 minimum for poetry; $100 minimum for prose), two copies of the issue, and a year’s subscription. NO E-mail submissions, please. Send SASE for either the return of your manuscript or our reply.