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Killing the Buddha welcomes submissions for all departments. Submissions are best sent via email to submit@killingthebuddha.com.
Send us queries or complete submissions, and we will reply. More quickly than a literary journal, too. But not too quickly. Your patience is appreciated. Please include clips or writing samples with your query if we have not published your work before.
Genres we’re more likely to publish: reportage, essays, photography, criticism, rants, prayers, original artwork. Text, audio, video, and images are welcome—we’re particularly eager to improve our audio and video offerings to lift our readers from their seats.
Not so much: fiction and poetry. It’s not that we won’t publish ANY fiction or 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 contact you and square away the deal. You’ll implicitly accept the terms of our Creative Commons license or you’ll request special copyright status. You will be consulted on edits, except perhaps for last-minute proofreading. We will post the work. Unfortunately, we can’t pay you with anything other than love, exposure, and good karma all around.
As far as archival rights go, 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 if you like our site enough to submit, and we like your work enough to publish it, may no later contracts with worldlier magazines tear us asunder.