Sunday, December 30, 2007

Confusing Guildlines from Prairie Schooner

"We prefer that fiction manuscripts be at least 150 pages long and poetry manuscripts at least 50 pages long. Stories and poems previously published in periodicals are eligible for inclusion. Novels are not considered; one novella along with stories will be considered (please don't send single novellas or a collection of novellas)"

Does this mean they want something over 150 pages that isn't a novel or a novella and that they're just asking for a short story that isn't SO short but is long enough not to be a novel or a novella but could be a novella (but not a collection of novellas...people write those?) so long as it has a collection of short stories (but not a collection of a collection) attached somewhere? Or somehow ? Or do they mean to say that previously published manuscripts which are novels or novellas are not considered while unpublished anything in particular is fine so long as it's at least 150 pages?

Or is it early? Or should I drink more coffee before going online?

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