Submissions
Because The Volta is comprised of six unique organs, we ask that you follow their respective guidelines detailed below.
The organs of THE VOLTA are as follows:
EVENING WILL COME (poetics | monthly)
FRIDAY FEATURE (reviews | weekly)
MEDIUM (video | weekly)
NEWS (news | daily)
THEY WILL SEW THE BLUE SAIL (poetry | monthly)
TREMOLO (interview | monthly)
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General inquiries may be sent to: thevoltaeditors | at | gmail | dot | com
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EVENING WILL COME
We do accept unsolicited submissions to Evening Will Come, but we ask that you query first.
Please note that while poetics is a broad term, we are not looking to publish reviews or poems of any length. (For those, you are welcome to contact
the editors of Friday Feature or They Will Sew The Blue Sail, respectively.)
We seek instead: essays, treatises, experiments, manifestos, letters, roundtables, inquiries—even meditations, polemics, and diaries. Related, however obliquely, to poetry, or "whatever else falls within the same inquiry." Something in the neighborhood of 1000 words is preferred.
Queries about Evening Will Come may be sent to: eveningwillcome | at | gmail | dot | com
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The FRIDAY FEATURE reviews editors can be reached at: thevoltareviews | at | gmail | dot | com
The Volta focuses on reviewing books of poetry, hybrid-genre work associated with poetry, works of poetics, and poetry criticism, as well as books of interest to the poetry community. We do not review works in other areas. Please do not send us self-help books, young adult fiction, etc., as these will be immediately recycled.
We do not accept electronic files for review. Please send us finished books or bound galleys of forthcoming titles.
For review consideration, authors or publishers should send copies of the work to both addresses below (Note: we may request a third copy to be sent to one of our reviewers in the future):
Joshua Marie Wilkinson, The Volta Ed.
Univ. of AZ, Dept. of English
1423 E. University Blvd.
Modern Languages Bldg., Rm. 472
Tucson, AZ 85721
and
Noah Eli Gordon, Head Reviews Ed.
1116 Saint Paul St.
Denver, CO 80206
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Submitting Reviews for Consideration to FRIDAY FEATURE:
The Volta is open to considering reviews. Please note that we take an active role as editors. Reviews should run from 500 to 3,000 words. As we plan our features well in advance, please query our head reviews editor here: noaheligordon | at | hotmail | dot | com
and please cc thevoltareviews | at | gmail | dot | com
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MEDIUM
To query the Medium editors about our video column & journal, please write to: thevoltamedium | at | gmail | dot | com
We do accept unsolicited poemfilms and videos. The best way to submit to the journal is to complete your own movie, upload it to vimeo.com, and then (and only then) contact the MEDIUM editors at the email address above with the vimeo link to let them know that it is online for their consideration.
We suggest movies of 1-5 minutes in length; we suggest that you read from your own writing.
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NEWS
You may submit your news items for our consideration—with links, etc.—directly to the news editors at: thevoltanews | at | gmail | dot | com
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THEY WILL SEW THE BLUE SAIL
To submit work for consideration, please send only one short poem (as a doc or docx attachment) to theywillsewthebluesail | at | gmail | dot | com
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TREMOLO
Queries related to interviews for Tremolo may be sent to the interview editors at: thevoltatremolo | at | gmail | dot | com
The Tremolo editors do accept unsolicited interviews. If you have conducted a recent interview (or wish to see an older interview considered for re-printing here) please query the Tremolo editors at thevoltatremolo | at | gmail | dot | com