Submission Guidelines

Kalkion publishes fiction, poetry, articles, essays, reviews (film, music and books), and interviews.

We also publish genre fiction, i.e. Science Fiction and Fantasy under a separate category.

We accept on-line submissions only. You can send your submissions to: submission @ kalkion [DOT] com. We do not accept submissions through snail mails.

Send the submissions in plain text, without any formatting. We accept either .odt, .rtf or plain ASCII formats. We do not accept submissions in any other format, especially any proprietary or non-free format.

If you have a query regarding your submission, you can contact the editor at : editor @ kalkion [DOT] com.

Please ensure that submitted content does not violate or infringes on some one else's copyright. A submission must be accompanied by a certificate / disclaimer by you which states: "I (your name) hereby declare that the work submitted (name of the work) is my original creation and it does not violate anyone's copyright. In case of any legal dispute I will face the charges."

Author's name and address should be on the first page of the manuscript.

Submissions without Certificate/address will not be considered for publication.

We accept Fiction (short stories) of any length. Ideally, the length of the story should be around between 2,000 words.

Articles:
The length of the article should be between 750 - 1,5002 words.

Poetry:
No length restrictions.

What we may not accept:
We may not accept graphic violence and explicit sexual content. However, it is difficult to draw a line. The best way is: send it to us and if our editors approve it without a frown, it is there!

Payment: Kalkion is a new venture. We currently do not pay authors. All we offer is visibility and publicity of your work. We sincerely hope that we will find a revenue generation model and will be able to pay our contributors in future.

Rejection
We don't reject stories due to content overflow. The basis of rejection may be the quality of content. However, as our goal is to encourage authors, unlike other publications our editors may choose to send you some suggestions to revise the story in order to make it appropriate for publication. The rejection email may also carry the reasons of rejection, but that is a prerogative of the editor reviewing the story. Either way, expect to hear feedback from us!

Submission response time
You may get an email from our editors as a receipt of your submission. This email doesn't mean acceptance of the submission. Given the amount of submissions pending approval, it may take few hours or up to a week for editors to review and update you with the status of your submission.

In the case that you do not hear from us within a week, you can send us a reminder through an e-mail. Please mention the Title of the story along with the submission date.

Simultaneous submissions
All content published on Kalkion is licensed under various Creative Commons Licenses, so you can. But if you are sending an already published story make sure that you have the proper re-publishing copyright on the material. In case of any dispute it will be your sole responsibility to face legal charges. Our suggestion is submit your story to only one publication.

Note: The submission guidelines can be changed/ amended without prior notice.