ARZONO Publishing Presents – The Annual 2023 Submissions

Deadline March 31, 2023

Submissions for the 2023 Annual are open from
January 1, 2023 – March 31, 2023

The following provides guidelines for submitting for consideration in our annual anthology publication of short or flash fiction, poetry, and short scripts. 

Submission guidelines are as follows:

• All submissions must be in English. We will not translate and will publish in English. Please communicate if British or Australian English is in use, so we do not edit for American English. 
• Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Please notify us immediately if your submission is accepted for publication elsewhere so we can remove it from consideration.
• Submissions must not be previously published.
• For any publication, authors and artists provide ARZONO Publishing first serial rights for ninety days after the Annual release date in July 2023, exact date to be determined and posted before May 1st. 
• Creators retain all copyrights. 
• Short scripts should be limited to a ten-minute film and properly formatted using Final Draft, Celtx, Scrivener, or Word, or other software specifically for formatting scriptwriting.
• Please do not submit PDFs so we can format properly for a 6×9 paperback. 

Submissions are open from January 1, 2023-March 31, 2023

We are looking for submissions in the following writing categories:

• Prose: Short Story up to 7,500 words
• Prose: Flash Fiction up to 1,000 words
• Poetry: One long piece should be able to fit on one page up to three columns – up to five pieces per poet
• Scripts: Up to ten one-minute pages properly formatted using a scriptwriting program such as Final Draft

Stella Samuel and ARZONO Publishing require ALL authors provide ARZONO Publishing with first serial rights for ninety days after the June 2023 Annual release date. This means the piece submitted must not be published anywhere else, including personal or professional websites, Medium, Facebook, or other print or digital publications until 90 days after The 2023 Annual release date. Reminder: authors retain all copyrights.

We publish inclusive fiction and creative non-fiction pieces and reserve to right to decline pieces based on topic sensitivity. Each piece will be reviewed and potentially edited for grammar. Please submit your best self-edited pieces. 

All authors and artists retain copyrights and may publish elsewhere 90 days after this Annual publication. Anyone wishing to withdraw their piece from the publication must do so before the end of April 2023. Otherwise, once approvals and acceptance have been agreed upon, the book, both print and digital, are considered to be in production.  

ARZONO Publishing Presents The 2023 Annual should be acknowledged as the place of initial publication should the writing piece be published elsewhere after the first serial rights 90 days have passed.

The Annual 2023 will be published in July 2023 in paperback and eBook. This final release date will be decided upon by May 1, 2023