We at Harlot want to ensure high levels of quality and critical thought characterize our publications. So while we're inviting of a large variety of submissions, we're not that easy.
All submissions will be reviewed by the Editors for suitability and quality before a work is forwarded for review. Upon acceptance for review, submissions will undergo a thorough assessment by the Harlot Consortium, our review board made up of academic and non-academic reviewers, the same audiences you can expect as readers and viewers of your texts. Each submission will be paired with at least one academic and one non-academic reviewer who will consider the following areas:
1. Success: Is the piece appropriate for Harlot? Does it achieve its goals/potentials? Is the production quality high?
2. Significance: Are the ideas relevant, interesting, and provocative to broad audiences?
3. Accessibility: Is the piece welcoming and appealing to audiences' varying reading abilities and assistive technologies?
4. Personality: Does the piece exhibit wit, charm, humor?
5. Ethics: Is the work respectful and inclusive of diverse individuals and communities? Does it abide by legal and moral codes of copyright and fair use?
Guidelines for Submission
Harlot welcomes a great variety of creations, but we do have a few guidelines. Not all apply to each submission, but please give the following list a careful read before submitting your work, and feel free to direct any questions to the Editors.
Requirements
Sharing creative material is a bit complicated in the publishing world, so we ask that you only submit work that has not already been published (excluding self-publication) nor is under consideration at another venue. We will consider revised and expanded works, but you must clear permissions with your original publisher and submit proof.
Categories of Submission
For our own workflow purposes, we have divided submissions into the following basic categories. Please note these editorial labels will not dictate a piece's categorization on the Harlot site. Choose one that best fits your work, and bear in mind that each type can include a variety of creative forms and multimedia:
* Long: essays, scholarship, documentary, dialogue
* Short: rants, raves, reviews, rambles
* Art: literary, visual, digital, audio productions
Supplementary Information and Metadata
Please include the following information with your submission:
1. a list of all authors/creators and their contact information
2. a brief biography (50-100 words each) of the authors/creators
3. a creators' statement: a summary, description, meditation on the work
4. a list of keywords
5. a fair use statement if necessary (see below)
File Requirements
We welcome submissions of all reasonable lengths and sizes, but we can accommodate only so many file formats. Print texts should be submitted in .doc or .rtf file formats. Image, audio, and video files should be submitted in high quality formats to be modified for web publication. Graphics should be in .gif, .jpeg, or .png file formats; audio should be in .wav or .mp3 file formats; and video should be in .mpeg, .avi, or .mov file extensions.
Citation Style
While we do not require a specific citation style, all quotations and references should be consistently acknowledged. For traditional print texts, consider using MLA or APA styles. All graphic and video productions should be accompanied by source information, and if this information is included within the production, please ensure the text is legible (see more under "Accessibility"). Also, please see "Permissions" for more information about the proper use of copyrighted materials.
Permissions
If incorporating any copyrighted materials into textual or multimedia productions, creators are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders or drafting a fair use statement (see "Fair Use Statement" below). If the material is all your own, please state so.
Accessibility
We use "accessibility" here in terms of a work's style and delivery. All texts should be composed for broad audiences and should avoid specialized language. Second, multimedia works should be considerate of users who use assistive technologies to read and interact with the Web. For more technical information on accessibility issues, please check back to see our forthcoming page with more detailed guidelines or email us in the meantime.
Protections
In the spirit of Harlot's inclusive and collaborative philosophy, we encourage you to select a Creative Commons license that best suits your wishes in terms of who can play (and how) with your work. Please visit Creative Commons to review and select a license to your taste.
Beginning with our debut issue, Harlot will be using the attribution, share-alike, non-commercial license, which means that all who use our content must attribute the works to the original creators, apply an identical license when sharing their newly derived works, and not gain profit off distributing the work, either in part or in whole. This license is the default for all submissions unless creators choose their own. Feel free to email us with any questions. We also respect traditional copyright if you so choose.
Fair Use Statement
All submissions incorporating copyrighted materials (such as textual, graphic, video, or audio productions) must be accompanied by a fair use statement. Yes, we understand that the nature of all work published in Harlot is some form of critique, report, or satire, but sometimes such claims are not enough to protect your work from allegations of copyright infringement. And we can't afford the legal battles, so let's play by the rules on this one.
Here's a helpful guide from the Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center. It includes the four factors used in court cases to judge the nature of the original work's use. We ask that you draft a response to each of these items:
1. the purpose and character of your use
2. the nature of the copyrighted work
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion taken, and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market
("Measuring Fair Use: The Four Factors," Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center)
Please visit the Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center for further details and helpful resources.
