What We Look For: We look for modernist works, which focus on an experimental examination of the inner self, and have a specificity as to geography, especially the city. We define the modern work broadly, as one that creates a world which is alienating and hostile, or characters who suffer from a sense of loss and/or despair.

Setting: Use any of these cities Seattle, New Orleans, Newark, Paris, Dublin, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Chicago or any comparable urban city.

For submission: Your entry should include a "cover letter" with your name, address, phone number with the words "Winter 2008 ," the story title, and a short 100 word bio. E-mail entries are encouraged. When sending e-mail submission, put riverbabble, your name, and the issue number on the subject line (example: riverbabble, John Doe, #12). E-mail: riverbabble@iceflow.com

Poetry: Entry limited to 30 lines, 3 poems, same general submission rules as short story.

General Guidelines
for submissions

1. riverbabble publishes twice a year: once in Summer and once in Winter. We accepts short stories (up to 2500 words), poetry (up to 30 lines), and criticism (up to 1000 words).

2. E-MAIL: (we prefer email submissions) include your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address and the title of your story. Send your story pasted into the body of the email and use rich text format.

3. We can not return submissions.

4. Please, do not send non-fiction or photo-essay submissions. Do not send stories as attachments. Send them pasted into the body of the email. Do not send stories in HTML text. We will discard them.

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