Emails for submissions:
kurungabaa (dot) prose (at) gmail (dot) com
kurungabaa (dot) poetry (at) gmail (dot) com
kurungabaa (dot) images (at) gmail (dot) com
Manuscripts
Make your work look as simple as possible. We will format your piece to make it look attractive; please don’t try to do that for us. If you make your piece look nice with centred heading, bold sub-heading, and fancy fonts, we will just have to take all of that out.
Aligned margins.
1.5 spacing throughout the text (with a single space between each paragraph).
Font should be Times New Roman 12 point.
Don’t use ALL CAPITALS anywhere in your piece.
Tabs: no tabs or paragraph indents, please. We prefer paragraphs not to be indented. Where you really do need to provide some space, use SPACEBAR characters instead.
Magazine and book titles are in italic, poem titles (when you are mentioning a poem in a review, say) are in “quotes”, and not bold or italic. NEVER use underline. Example: John Ashbery’s poem “Two Scenes” begins his first collection of poems, Some Trees, which was published in 1956.
If you’re sending an interview, please don’t make the questions or answers italic. A little italic goes a long way on a computer screen, and because the uprights of the characters are angled, they become jagged and hard to read. Just start the questions with Q: and the answers with A:, or use the interlocutors’ surnames or initials.
If you have special formatting requests please let us know so we don’t change it.
Articles are to be no longer than 2000 words in length (this can be negotiated).
Please include a brief author biography with your submissions.
Email as a Microsoft Word attachment (.doc).
Don’t send your material inside an email: when you have checked your file carefully, send the file as an attachment to an email, not inside the body of the email.
When you send in corrections, just send a list of corrections. Do not send in the whole file again.
Photos are best sent as
• JPG files
• full RGB color
• ‘high’ quality
• 10 out of 10 on the quality scale
• resolution at 300 pixels per inch
• Make sure the file name ends with the suffix ‘.jpg’ (not ‘.jpeg’) in lower case.
Please do not send your photos gathered together into one file and compressed. If you need to send a number of photos, send them as separate attachments to one email.
Note: Academic Research
All academic research will be peer-reviewed. Contributions must be referenced (as ‘Works Cited’) in MLA style, for example:
Probyn, Elspeth. Sexing the Self. London and New York : Routledge, 1993.
Research articles are to be no longer than 6,000 words in length. Kurungabaa follows the MLA style guidelines, except for citations within the text. These are to be provided with bibliographic information in the form of endnotes (numbering from 1 upwards). Multiple further citations of the same source can be indicated by page number within the text, ie. (12); this should be accompanied by a statement in the text’s preceding endnote such as: ‘Further references are included within the text’. Citing the page number within the text ceases when the next footnote appears, but later references to a work already cited can be shortened to author and title within the endnotes (ie. Gunew, Framing Marginality 13). Quotations are to be enclosed in single quotation marks (using double marks only with embedded quotations).
Example:
1. Gunew, Sneja. Framing Marginality: multicultural literary studies. Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1994: 12.
2. Lingis, Alphonso. “Typhoons”. Cultural Studies Review. 8:1 (2002): 95.
Do you accept relevant press releases that may be of interest to the surfing community?
Heya ozlat,
We will take press releases if they are of interest to the surfing community. But no promotion of products, we do not do advertising. So let us know what the press release is about and we will let you know asap.
Cheers,
Clif.
I would be interested to post a case study about the situation in Mnetawai. How can i do that? Th ethread looks closed.
Hi Chris,
Good to here from you! Yes, the thread is closed.
If you send through the post it will be circulated to the editors for review. They offer fantastic and constructive advice, and if there are any edits we get them off to you.
So please do send through the case study. We would be stoked.
I am looking forward to having a read!
Stay wet mate.
Clif.
Do you accept fiction?
Hey Brent,
Yep, fiction, essays, poetry, the lot. Looking forward to reading some of your work
Cheers,
Clif.
He says that to everyone Brent, then he burns you for lunch ..
We owe you a hundred lunches at Avalon RSL Larry
Kurungabaa wouldn’t be here without your endless killer contributions, champ. Lunch is on the way!!
I’ll settle for scampi at Filicudes in Fivedock
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hi, any room left for a short piece of fiction to be considered for “longing”
Will you accept a poem remembering a friend who passed away last week while making his way into the sea for a surf? It was his local spot, a place he went each day. And one day, it took his life.
Hi Sarah,
Please do send it in. Take care of yourself.
Clif.
Do you accept music videos about water from antipodal dwellers?
Which address to we mail initial submissions into?
You can send to me if you like, Ben.
cliftonevers[at]gmail[dot]com
Saw my 1st copy, love it! I’m giving a workshop very soon listing outlets. The address i had to send submissions was peterbowes111@gmail.com
Which should be the intial submission address in Oz?
You can send them to any of me if you like, Les. Thanks for the support!
clifton.evers@nottingham.edu.cn
G’day
Do you have any word limits for fiction, poetry etc?
I take it there is to be a link to the sea?
I ask as I would like to add a link on my website (www.austwriters.com)
Thanks
Hi Dianne,
There aren’t really word limits for poems and fiction, no – as long as the submissions are reasonable about it. But yes, we are a publication with a strong relationship to and focus on the sea, which manifsts in a variety of ways… You can check our submission guidelines for more info.
Thanks for the link!
Hello,
Do you pay contributors? If so, is it through Paypal or a copy of the magazine. I am an overseas writer and very curious to learn about your magazine.
Thank you
Hi Nayanna,
Thank you for your interest. As a 100% volunteer run journal surviving on the generosity of sponsors and subscribers (and not advertising), we are currently unable to provide a stipend for contributors. That could change in the future, but for now, that is our situation. HOWEVER, we do provide the contributor with a complimentary copy of the issue that her work is featured in.
Hi,
I’m a subscriber to a writing magazine and in the lastest issue it’s mentioned, ‘Kurungabaa Journal of Literature’ is calling for submissions for an upcoming issue. The theme is ‘strangers’. I would be interested in submitting a poem – but I see nothing here on the website. . . so is this accurate and how should I submit one poem? For instance is email acceptable?
Cheers
Vicky
hey vicky, i am currently esconced in beautiful swells somewhere in the pacific, so go to the contact us and send something through to any of the editors. we would love to read your words and thoughts. we hope you are gliding at the moment.
clif.
When are the submission deadlines for the next issue? I’d like to send a poem
Dear Jake,
Issue 4:1 is currently in production, and the deadline for submitting material for that issue was August 31, 2011. We have yet to set the submission deadline for the next issue, however, our editors are periodically monitoring submissions that float in during the interim, and filing them for consideration for 4:2. We will begin the full reading and decision process for the next issue’s submissions as soon as 4:1 is published.
-D