Literary Committee

Whistle Pig

  An Elmore County Literary Journal
c2009  

The Whistle Pig is published annually by the Literary Arts Committee of the Mountain Home Arts Council (Mountain Home, ID). Contributors-of poetry, short fiction, & nonfiction-are from Elmore County and surrounding areas. Address editorial or other correspondence to Mountain Home Arts Council, P.O. Box 974, Mountain Home, ID 83647; (208) 587-3706; literaryarts@mharts.org.

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Chairman of Literary Arts___________Tom Bennick

Submission Guidelines
2010

The editors of The Whistle Pig are seeking original short stories, poems, memoirs, personal musing, drama and other short pieces of writing to include in the journal.  In addition to writing  for this issue, the committee  is asking visual artists to submit black and white art. 

The editors have established the following guidelines for submissions: 

Prose: no more than 8000 words.

Poetry: no more than 50 lines.  The number of poems per person should not exceed 5 poems.

Font size : 12 pt., Times New Roman..

Prose is to be double spaced: poetry can have whatever spacing required by the work.

Include an upper right hand header on each page with name, title of work, and page number.

All writing must be production ready.  The editorial committee will make small adjustments in the writing such as: spelling, punctuation and usage . 

Include a cover sheet with a brief biography (not to exceed 50 words), name, address and contact phone number.

Art work should be no more than 8 1/2 by 11 inches. The work will be published in black and white.  The selection committee for this work will be members of the Visual Arts Committee. 

All entries, except art work, are required to be submitted by email only.  Art  work may be submitted to the following places: Brown Wrapper, P and C plumbing and Brenda Raub at Mountain Home High School.   If there is a problem with this method of submitting, one may contact the Literary Committee and arrangement will be made to accommodate the persons submission.  

All entries should be postmarked no later than March 1st, 2010.  

Email entries to literaryarts@mharts.org  with subject The Whistle Pig submission

If a submission is printed the payment will be one copy of The Whistle Pig