SUBMISSIONS
LIES/ISLE is currently accepting submissions for our upcoming themed issue on THE DESERT. At this point there are no current plans for an unthemed issue in the future.
For the themed issues, submissions will remain open until we have 10-15 pieces that we are interested in publishing. When you are submitting to a themed issue, please include the theme you are submitting to in the subject line of your email. If you do not include a theme listed in your subject line, no matter how much it might fit a theme, we will assume the submission is intended for an unthemed issue and treat it as such.
Submissions not to theme will not be read with a strong attention, and possibly will not be responded to. This is due to our desire, as a magazine, to curate our issues into a pointed body of work. Most magazines are unthemed: we are not most magazines. However, we understand that there is an abundance of experimental and boundary pushing work being created that does not fit a theme, and we do not want to stay entirely closed to these eccentricities. As such, we will publish an unthemed issue at some point in the future.
Submit your work to SUBMISSIONS (AT) LIESISLE (DOT) COM.
We accept multiple & simultaneous submissions, but let us know if your story gets published somewhere else before we've had a chance to respond to you.
We have no specific submission rules. However, due to the fact that we are an online publication, we encourage you to consider the medium in your submission. Consider the attention span of somebody viewing work online versus someone viewing work on the printed page. Consider the potentialities that the freedom of the web offers: you can embed video, sound, images, text changes, you can have a word that is 2000 characters long. There is no page to limit your spatial exploration to on the internet. On the internet you can scroll both vertically and horizontally as far and wide as need be. We want to publish texts & hybrid works that are as visually interesting as they are attuned to language. We are open to any form and medium that can exist on the internet. Here is a list of vague forms that we have yet to encounter that we are interested in:
Plans for a fictional architecture
Hypter-text work
Multi-'screened' video & film
Animated-Gif heavy narratives
Text-based RPGs
Count on this list to expand.