Where Do I Send My Work?
Good question! In the first instance, all work submitted to Vultures of Culture should be sent to us at here.
Please also direct queries to the above email address.
Please preface the subject line of your email with the phrase ‘VULTURES OF CULTURE’ (all caps). Please also include a clearly-worded email outlining the nature of your submission or query.
With your submission, please also include a clear indication of the name by which you would like to be credited.
Types of Submissions
Please read the submission guidelines carefully and adhere to them.
We accept the following submissions:
Written Fiction
- Short stories, 2000-8000 words
- Flash fiction <1000 words
Written Non-Fiction
- Essays (2000-5000 words)
- Reviews (1000-2000 words)
Images
- Photographic projects / photoessays (of any length)
- Design-based artifacts and illustrations
- Photographic representations of artifacts in other fields (eg, special effects makeup / prop-making / sculpture / fashion and jewellery / painting)
Moving Pictures
- Short narrative films
- Short experimental films
- Video essays
- Short non-fiction films / documentary material
- Recordings of performances
Sounds
- Music
- Monologues
- Spoken word non-fiction
- Recorded interviews
- Oral histories
- Audio drama / plays
- Podcasts
File Types
WORDS
For written submissions, please submit these either as Rich Text Format (.rtf) files or Word files (.doc / .docx).
On elements of style: speech / dialogue should be presented using single inverted commas ( ‘ ) rather than double quotation marks ( ” ). Punctuation should be outside the quoted passage (eg, ‘Here are your shoes’, she said.)
Titles of long-form texts (eg, feature films, novels, books, albums, plays, magazines) should be presented in italics (A Clockwork Orange); titles of short-form texts (short stories, essays, articles, song titles) should be presented in inverted commas (‘I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream’). Examples: ‘1979’ is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins which appears on the album Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness; ‘The Midnight Meat Train’ is a short story by Clive Barker that appears in the collection Books of Blood.
Non-Fiction material should include referencing according to the Harvard style. (We prefer the Cite Them Right interpretation of Harvard’s referencing style: see here.)
Where books or films are discussed in non-fiction work, these should be accompanied by an indication of the author / director, and year of publication: eg, The House with Laughing Windows (Pupi Avati, 1975); Pupi Avati’s 1975 film The House with Laughing Windows; Pupi Avati’s The House with Laughing Windows (1975). All of these are acceptable.
IMAGES
For image-based submissions, please submit your work as .jpgs, at 72ppi, and at least 2560 pixels on the longest edge. Images may be submitted with any dimensions, as long as these criteria are fulfilled. Image-based submissions are likely to be presented on the site as a video slideshow, so please number any images you submit according to the sequence in which you would like them to be submitted.
Please submit images via OneDrive, WeTransfer or Google Drive.
Image-based submissions must be accompanied by a title and project statement (of 300-500 words).
MOVING PICTURES
For videographic submissions, please submit your work in .mp4, .avi, or .mkv format.
Please submit video material via OneDrive, WeTransfer or Google Drive.
Video submissions must be accompanied by a title and project statement (of 300-500 words).
SOUNDS
Please submit audio files in .mp3 format. Audio material may be convered to video for purposes of display on the website.
Audio submissions must be accompanied by a title and project statement (of 300-500 words).
Simultaneous Submissions
We accept simultanous submissions. In fact, we welcome them. All we ask is that if you are successful in getting your work published elsewhere, you let us know.
By submitting work to us, you are granting us permission to publish your work on the Vultures of Culture website and affiliated social media pages.