AFTERIMAGE
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Afterimage accepts both commissions and unsolicited manuscripts. With
unsolicited manuscripts include writing samples and an SASE if you
would like the manuscript returned. All writers are encouraged to
discuss article ideas with the editors before submitting finished
articles. We do not reprint previously published pieces.
Authors
are encouraged to discuss proposals with the Editor prior to submitting
articles. Please email Karen vanMeenen at afterimageeditor@yahoo.com.
Articles
must be formatted in Microsoft Word, version 5.0, and submitted via
email or on a 100MB ZIP disk or CD for Macintosh. Always mail a
double-spaced hard copy as well.
AFTERIMAGE
SECTIONS
FEATURES
Ranging
from 3,000-6,000 words, feature articles may be original investigative
reporting or scholarly research they may be biographies of or
interviews with important media artists or critics; they may use an
event, exhibition, book, video, etc. as a jumping-off point for a
discussion of larger economic, political and cultural issues. Use of
endnotes is expected but not strictly required.
REVIEWS
Reviews
are generally 700-1500 words. They may cover individual or group
exhibitions, installations, screenings and performances; or they may
examine one or more media arts publications. References should by
placed within the text, though endnotes are permitted.
ESSAYS
Like the
feature in terms of prominence and scope, but more like the review in
terms of timeliness and length (they range from 1500-3000 words), an
essay may be written in a more "subjective" voice and it may be on or
about virtually any subject in the domain of media arts and cultural
criticism. Most essays are written on commission, though Afterimage
will consider unsolicited manuscripts. Endnotes are explicitly
discouraged.
REPORTS
This
section includes articles (700-1500 words) about particular
conferences, symposia, film and video festivals and other formal
gatherings. A good report will provide both an account and an analysis
of the event. Endnotes are discouraged.
PORTFOLIO
and INKLIGHT
Our Portfolio
section highlights a developed body of work by a single image-maker,
while our Inklight section invites collaboration between image-makers
and writers. Please click
here for more information and submission guidelines.
NEWS
Afterimage
publishes news stories on funding, legislation, activism and
institutional restructuring, as well as obituaries and other topics of
importance to our readership. Although most news items are written by
Afterimage staff, longer news articles (1500-4000 words) are actively
solicited from outside writers. References should by placed within the
text, though endnotes are permitted in longer news articles.
RECEIVED
AND NOTED
Much
shorter than a review (generally no more than 300 words), a note is a
concise yet critical description of a single book, exhibition catalog
or periodical.
AFTERIMAGE
STYLE GUIDELINES
Refer to
the Chicago Manual of Style and Webster's 19th Collegiate Dictionary
for style and spelling. Use open punctuation: i.e., the minimum of
commas, quotation marks and other punctuation necessary for clear
understanding of the writing, as well as a minimum of italics and
capitalization. In features give full endnote references, not
footnotes, for all writings quoted or referred to more than cursorily,
including the volume and number references for scholarly journals.
Please include a one-sentence author bio at the end of your article.
Please
double-check dates, titles, spellings of names, etc. Include makers'
names and year dates of all works mentioned. All titles of film, video
and photographic works and publications should be in italics; series
and installations should be in quotations; and all exhibition titles
should be in quotations. Any article, including features, that reviews
a particular work or event must include separately the following
information:
1.
exhibitions: title; name of artist if it is a solo show; name and city
of venue; opening and closing dates; name, city, and dates of all
venues to which the show has traveled or will travel books and
catalogs: title, author/editor, publisher (with address if not well
known), number of pages, price for hardback and soft cover copies
films/videos not shown in a formal exhibition: title, artist,
distributor(s) (with address if not well known), rental format and price
2. festivals/conferences: title, location, sponsor, dates.
PAYMENT
Afterimage
pays five cents a word for articles, with a maximum of $100 for news,
reports and reviews; $150 for essays; and $300 for features. Payment is
made after publication, not acceptance and checks may take some months
to process. Feature writers receive 1 advance copy and 5 additional
free copies of the issue; reviews, reports, essay and news writers as
well as portfolio contributors receive 1 advance copy and three
additional copies. All contributors also receive a one-year
complimentary subscription. To publicize Afterimage articles, we send
tearsheets to galleries, publishers, distributors and event sponsors.
