Shit Creek Review: Submit Online

Submit online

Please be sure to read our guidelines on the current Submissions page, where you will also find details of the current theme. That page is also the place to look if you want to submit artwork.

Submit poems online for Issue 12 here. The online method is best for poems without too many complexities of indenting or other special formatting.

For poems with a lot of indents or other formatting, paste your text into the body of a formatted (HTML) email, or send it as an attached Word document, to .

NEW: Submission preview

A Preview facility has been added to this form. Use the Preview button to see how your text will look when sent, especially if you are using HTML tags for italics and indents.

The Preview feature will also convert basic UBB (online forum) formatting code to the required HTML (and reflect this change back into the Submission field). The note below lists the UBB tags that will be converted.

Name:

Email:
                Please double-check!

Type in the text of your poem(s) in the box below, or copy and paste from your Word document or other source. Line and paragraph breaks will be preserved (if not, you can adjust with the Enter/Delete keys) but formatting such as italics and bold is not preserved. You can reapply it in the form, using basic HTML tags; see below for some details. Do not insert HTML code for paragraph or line breaks; it should be sufficient to ensure that breaks are visually correct, with a double break where you need an empty line. SEE THE FORMATTING NOTES IF YOU ARE SENDING TEXT WITH INDENTED LINES, and preview your text before submitting.

UBB tags OK

The YOUR TEXT field now accepts UBB formatting tags and the Preview process converts them to the equivalent HTML tags. Specifically, you can include [i] ..... [/i] for italics, [b] ..... [/b] for bold (though this should rarely be needed), and [color=white] .... [/color] to achieve indents.

YOUR SUBMISSION TEXT:

Use the PREVIEW button to see your submission text as it will be received, with layout and formatting. This can be useful to catch errors in spacing, italics etc before you actually submit. The anti-spam box does NOT need to be completed for a preview. The preview text will be shown below.

Brief author’s biographical note —
up to about 60 words in third-person style:

(Formatting is available as above.)

Send me an email message confirming my submission
If you are set up to read formatted (HTML) mail, the message will show your submission exactly as received. If you read mail only in plain text, the confirmation will show the text and line breaks as submitted, but formatting such as italics will be absent and special characters such as quotes and em dashes may not appear correctly even though we received them correctly.

Robot-guided spammer canoes have occasionally been sighted on the Creek. To help sink them, read the characters below and type them into the empty box before clicking the Submit button.

    Enter the characters you see on the left:
    (case-sensitive, no spaces)

Formatting

Formatting such as italics and bold text is not preserved when you paste text into this web form.

The text you enter gets processed into a formatted (HTML) email to the Editor. To put a word or phrase in italics, insert  before the text and  after. To put a word or phrase in bold, insert  before the text and  after.

Other simple HTML tags are also accepted. (Please don’t copy in complex HTML, especially not the tag soup that Word spits out via its Save As... HTML.) For example, you might want to indent some lines in a poem. Spaces inserted at the beginning of a line with the spacebar or tab key will simply get lost in transmission. If you need an indent do it like this:

While this is just a standard flush-left line, *****this is a line indented from the left.

(Note: no quotes of any kind around the word white.)

In the email that comes through, it will look like this:

While this is just a standard flush-left line,
***this is a line indented from the left.