To submit to Rootstalk, please fill out the following form or email your submissions to [email protected]
What we’re looking for
Rootstalk is aimed at a community of readers with a lively interest in the Midwest region.
We take a broad view of what it means to be a journal. Whether your work is formal or informal, avant-garde or mainstream, urban, rural or small-town in its focus, ecologically forward-thinking or socially retrospective, as long as it has roots in life on the prairie, we want to know about it. Our only restriction is that the submissions should be aimed at an intelligent general reader who cares passionately about the prairie region.
Humans express thought in many more forms than words, and we feel that, as an online journal, we have an opportunity and a responsibility to bring art, commentary and culture together in unexpected ways. Therefore, we accept submissions of prose, poetry, music, and digital visual art ; (including film, photography, and images of two- and three-dimensional art pieces).
What follows are guidelines. They are as concrete as we can make them, but they are not absolute. They will continue to evolve through time, and that evolution will be reflected in what follows.
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File formats
Just to review: contributors’ submission must be in one of the following file forms: *.doc, *.rtf, *.pdf, *.docx, *.txt, *.wpd, *.odf, *.mp3, *.mp4, *.avi, *.mov, and *.flv. If a submission doesn’t use a file extension that’s on this list, we won’t be able to consider it.
Response time
We’ll do our best to get back to our contributors about their work within six to eight weeks, but it will sometimes take longer. Careful consideration takes time.