Hamilton Marks, Jr.
Creative Nonfiction
English 4017
Dr. Chandler
December 1, 2010
Rhetorical Analysis of Publication Venue
Purpose: to submit a copy of any of my four creative nonfiction pieces with aspiration of acceptance for publishing.
Publication’s Name: Upstreet: http://www.upstreet-mag.org/guideline_layers.html
About (Upstreet): Upstreet is an award winning annual literary anthology containing the best new fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. It is located in Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. It is an independently owned and published, nationally distributed magazine. It was founded in 2005 by Vivian Dorsel, formerly Managing Editor of The Berkshire Review for eight years. The magazine is an affiliate of Ledgetop Publishing. http://www.upstreet-mag.org/welcome_layers.html
Contact Info: Upstreet
P. O. Box 105
Richmond, MA 01254-0105
Phone: (413) 441-9702
email: editor@upstreet-mag.org
blog: http://upstreetfanclub.blogspot.com/
distributors: Source Interlink, Ingram Periodicals, Ubiquity, Disticor (Canada)
Submitting to Upstreet: submit your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (including prose poems) for the seventh issue.
• No longer take submissions by e-mail or surface mail, but only through the upstreet Submission Manager. http://www.upstreet-mag.org/submissions/
• The submission period for upstreet number seven is from September 1, 2010, to March 1, 2011. The Submission Manager will take work only within that time period.
• Do not include author name and info on the manuscript. Author info will including name, address, phone, email, brief bio and more will be put into the submission manager.
• Do not submit previously published works, or more than three poems, two fiction and two nonfiction pieces (including prose poems) per issue.
• Fiction or Nonfiction pieces should be 5,000 words or less. Notification will be made via e-mail, by mid-May 2011.
Analysis: from glancing at some of the issues published on upstreet and looking at their guidelines and requirements for submission, I can say as long as the submitted piece meets the requirements, it has a chance provided on what is written and how it is written.
Description: The pieces range from pop culture to ethnic, maternal, feminine, to powerful and inspirational.
http://www.upstreet-mag.org/upstreet_1_pdfs/cardenas.pdf
http://www.upstreet-mag.org/upstreet_4_pdfs/Abbott.pdf
http://www.upstreet-mag.org/upstreet_5_pdfs/Amoroso.pdf
http://www.upstreet-mag.org/upstreet_4_pdfs/Martone.pdf (CNF)
http://www.upstreet-mag.org/upstreet_3_pdfs/Tempone.pdf (CNF)
http://www.upstreet-mag.org/upstreet_1_pdfs/rapoza.pdf (CNF)
Subject Matter: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction and poetry (including Prose)
Voice/tone: some of the titles of the published pieces stretched out from humorous to moral, informative/narrative, descriptive general pop culture ideas.
Form: didn’t really say. They only commented on the creative nonfiction piece being 5,000 words or less.
Artistry: the only thing to really focus on is the structure, grammar and potent story idea. Some of the issue I skimmed through weren’t that sophisticated or extremely intense in composition. must be 5,000 words or l
• Fiction and nonfiction pieces must 00 words or
• The author’s name and contact information should not appear anywhere on the manuscript.
• The Submission Manager provides a form to enter the author’s name, address, phone number, e-mail, a brief bio, and other information of the submitte
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