Submission

General Submission Guidelines
(Updated 3/8/11)

These are general guidelines. Additional, specific guidelines for nonfiction, fiction, and poetry are below. Please read all the way to the bottom.

  • It is absolutely essential that your post should not have been previously published. If you send your piece to another website or publication or website, please inform us of your decision to withdraw it from The Kashmir Walla.
  • We are ONLY interested in original, unpublished manuscripts. Your work MUST be unpublished. (If a translation, the translation must not have been published. The original may have been.)
  • After publication in The Kashmir Walla, it may be published elsewhere provided due credit is given to The Kashmir Walla and a link to the post.
  • We try to respond within a week to let you know whether we are publishing the piece. Please be patient.
  • Please include a brief bio of yourself.
  • We do not pay for any submissions for now.
  • The best formats to send your post (in this order) are .doc and html email. Text Size: 12-14. Text Font: Times New Roman. Please do not send your post as plain text email or as .pdf files.

Please follow our submission guidelines closely, otherwise your submission will be misdirected and you may not receive a response. For guidelines, please see the information below.

Departments (Specific Guidelines on How to Submit Your work)

Daily Submissions and blog

by email: blog@thekashmirwalla.com

In subject line (please follow this format exactly): “blog submission” Anything not more than 1000 words.

 

My Story

by email: editors@thekashmirwalla.com

In subject line (please follow this format exactly): “my story submission” length/quantity: less than 2000 words. As MS Word document. Size: 12-14. Text format: Times New Roman

 

Features

by email: editors@thekashmirwalla.com

In subject line (please follow this format exactly): “features submission” length/quantity: less than 2000 words. As MS Word document. Size: 12-14. Text format: Times New Roman

 

Columns

by email: editors@thekashmirwalla.com

In subject line (please follow this format exactly): “columns submission” length/quantity: less than 1000 words. As MS Word document. Size: 12-14. Text format: Times New Roman

 

Reviews

by email: editors@thekashmirwalla.com

In subject line (please follow this format exactly): “reviews submission” length/quantity: less than 1000 words. Film, documentary or book reviews only. As MS Word document. Size: 12-14. Text format: Times New Roman

 

Interviews

by email: editors@thekashmirwalla.com

In subject line (please follow this format exactly): “interview submission” We prefer the full interview manuscript rather than a pitch. As MS Word document. Size: 12-14. Text format: Times New Roman

 

Fiction

by email: editors@thekashmirwalla.com

In subject line (please follow this format exactly): “fiction submission” Length/quantity: No fewer than 700 words, no more than 3000 words/one story or novel excerpt per submission. As MS Word document. Size: 12-14. Text format: Times New Roman

 

Poetry

by email: editors@thekasmirwalla.com

In subject line (please follow this format exactly): “poetry submission” Send up to three poems of any length. Translations welcome. As MS Word document. Size: 12-14. Text format: Times New Roman

 

Art / Photography / Culture

by email: editors@thekashmirwalla.com

In subject line (please follow this format exactly): “art/photography/culture submission”

 

General Inquiries, Feedback

by email: contact@thekashmirwalla.com