I really hate finding this clause in submission guidelines:
"C. The AUTHOR acknowledges that by submitting her/his work, she/he is
donating their work to IWA PUBLISHING SERVICES/45 Magazine. The AUTHOR
retains full rights to the submitted work and is giving IWA PUBLISHING
SERVICES/45 Magazine permission to publish the submitted material via
print, electronic publication, stage plays, screenplays, anthologies,
and movie productions and will not receive any financial compensation or
literary credit if their anonymously submitted work is chosen to be
published via print, e-publication, or for stage plays, screenplays,
and/or in movie productions.However,the AUTHOR will receive literary
credit only for their creative work (poetry, fiction, creative
non-fiction, screenplays, and stageplays) submitted if they include
their name. All personal (true) stories will remain anonymous."
As the author you are basically giving away all the rights to your story without being paid a cent. Watch your backs out there, folks. Oh yes, the name of this magazine is 45 Magazine Women's Literary Journal.
6 comments:
Oh, good grief. :/ "Markets" like that are a complete ripoff, and they're only possible because of writers who don't read all the fine print.
Read everything. Be choosy about where you sub, and start at the top of the list.
If anyone is making money, the writer should be making money.
[sigh]
Angie
Totally agree, Angie. They always talk about novelists losing control of their rights but it happens to short story writers too.
It strikes me as the kind of place that preys on the dreams of folks who want to be published
Yes, it does, Charles. And the worst part is that they want to publish all the stories anonymously.
So they're not even pretending to "pay" the writers in exposure?? Wow, these dirtbags just get better and better. :/
Angie
Yes, I couldn't believe what I was reading in the guidelines then this clause popped up and I knew there was definitely something wrong with this market.
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