Killing the Buddha welcomes submissions for all departments. Submissions are best sent via email, to: submit@killingthebuddha.com.

Queries are preferred, but we will look at unsolicited submissions, and we will reply. More quickly than a literary journal, too. If you send us hard copy, include a S.A.S.E.

Genres we're more likely to publish: reportage, essays, fiction, photography; criticism, rants, prayers.

Not so much: poetry, non-photographic art. The latter exclusion is grounded in the technical realities of the web; the former exclusion is inexcusable. It's not that we won't publish ANY poetry, it's just that we don't want to be deluged by the stuff - which, per our experience, is what happens to most publications.

We will consider previously published material, but we will look on it less favorably - unless it's a long forgotten masterpiece, in which the joy of re-discovery will override our fetish for the new.

If we publish you, here's what will happen: First, we'll call you and square away the deal. If you need a contract, we'll send the basic one that the National Writer's Union uses. We will request anthology and archive rights.* You will grant them. You will be consulted on all edits. Nothing will appear without your approval. We will post the work. Unfortunately, we can't pay you with anything other than love, exposure, and good karma all around."

*Some of you may know archival rights and the like are something of a hot topic among writers right now. In general, we're on the side of writers. If you want to make more money by re-selling your work to the Sodom and Gomorrah of, say, Vanity Fair, by all means do so. But you like our site enough to submit, and we like your work enough to publish it, let no later contracts with worldlier magazines tear us asunder.