Witness welcomes submissions for our 2010 issue, which will feature a special portfolio focusing on literature and film. In addition to general submissions, we welcome work that addresses any intersection between these two genres.

• Unsolicited manuscripts are welcome between September 1 to May 1. Work that arrives outside that period will be returned unread. • We accept simultaneous submissions provided that you notify us promptly at witness@unlv.edu if the work is accepted elsewhere. • Our reporting time is generally eight to twelve weeks, although we sometimes take longer over the winter holidays. After twelve weeks, you are welcome to contact us by e-mail about the status of your submission. • We do not accept previously published work. • Please limit your submission to one story, one essay, or five poems at a time. We do not have a word limit. • Please don’t send a second submission until you’ve received a response regarding your first one. • Witness pays $10 per printed page.

• Please review the contents of our current issue before submitting. • We don’t favor particular styles or genres. In general, we are seeking work that ventures away from the American experience and into international terrain, and that promotes the modern writer as witness to his or her times. That said, we always select the best work that comes to us, regardless of content.

• To help us reduce paper waste, please submit through our online submission manager. • All files must be saved in Microsoft Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf). • As noted above, you may only submit one story, one essay, or five poems at a time. Poems should be sent in a single document file, with the individual poems separated by page breaks. • Work should be formatted on letter-sized paper, double-spaced, and set in a standard (Times, Helvetica, Arial) 12-point typeface. • Your contact information, including an e-mail address, should appear on the first page of the submission. • Cover letter information can be entered in the “comments” box of the online submission form.

• Submissions by mail must include a SASE and should be sent to the address below. We will recycle your manuscript unless you request its return in your cover letter.