El Portal

Website

http://www.elportaljournal.com

From the Editor

Eastern New Mexico University’s literary magazine, El Portal, offers a venue for the work of writers, artists and photographers.

ENMU students, national, and international writers are welcome to submit their original, previously unpublished short stories, plays, poetry and photography. No entry fees are charged. Cash prizes are awarded to first-, second- and third-place winners in each category (Only ENMU students qualify).

El Portal is published each semester at Eastern thanks to Dr. Jack Williamson, a world-renowned science fiction writer and professor emeritus at ENMU who underwrote the publication. El Portal has been published since 1939.

From the site:

Eastern New Mexico University’s literary magazine, El Portal, offers a unique venue for the work of writers, artists and photographers.

Though founded in 1939 as the creative forum for the students, faculty, and staff of Eastern New Mexico University, it was Dr. Jack Williamson who gave us the name El Portal, along with his vision to showcase the region through art. Since then, we hold a soft spot for the West, but our eclectic tastes make us open to everything. Our mission is in our name: El Portal is the door. We open our doors to poetry and fiction, photography and art, non-fiction and flash works as we strive to share works that transgress boundaries, straddle borders, and most importantly, move us.

Submissions

We want stories and poems about West. West is a bullet-riddled 1985 Grand Marquis, a gleaming spaceship hovering over Roswell, a cowboy paying his latte with the Amex-card, an alien wondering where in the world to get the golden iPhone. West is where it hurts, West is the rattlesnake you didn’t hear, the dust storm sanding your car, the champagne underneath the Hollywood sign, the checkout line of a grocery store that doesn’t carry mandarin-orange segments in fruit juice, green-chili and cheese burritos from the 24-hour gas station. West is when there’s no West left. West is where you always wanted to be.
Write West.

El Portal is open to submissions from all artists and writers. Submissions are published on the basis of talent, content, and editorial needs.

Guidelines

• Flash Fiction (up to 500 words)
• Short Stories (up to 4,000 words)
• Creative Nonfiction (up to 4,000 words)
• Poetry (up to 5 poems)
• Art & Photography (up to 5 pieces)

Make sure to check their submissions page before you submit your work: https://elportaljournal.com/submissions/

Upcoming

Upcoming deadline: 31 October 2014.

Information

Editors Name Alexandra Itzi
Print publication? Yes
Circulation Less than 1,000
Do you take online submissions? Yes
Submission Guidelines URL http://elportaljournal.com/submissions
Approx. Response Time? N/A
How often do you publish? 2 issues/year
Year Founded? 1939
Do you pay? Contributor’s copies only

Contact

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Mailing Address:
El Portal
Languages and Literature
1500 S Ave K,
Station 19,
Portales, NM 88130
Email el.portal@enmu.edu