Literary sports writing wanted

Sports themed poetry, fiction and non fiction is wanted for Aethlon: The Journal of Sports Literature. ‘We focus on the literary aspects of sport, critical articles on literature and film, as well as original poetry and fiction on the subject of sport,’ says editor Dr Mark Baugartner.

There are no limits on length requirements for poetry and fiction although most stories are under thirty pages. A journal index which can be downloaded from a website link shows that the poetry and fiction content greatly outnumbers the non-fiction content.

The non-fiction content consists of scholarly and critical essays, the rhetoric of sport and cultural studies. Essays address the treatments of sport in texts and media

including print, film, performance, digital and other media. Of particular interest are non-fiction stories and essay on culture and its surrounding culture. Creative non-fiction should avoid being a personal anecdote. Not published are sociological, historical or topical sports stories, sabermetric studies or economic analyses of sport.

Format your work double spaced with your name on the title page only. Manuscripts should be in English, with the exception of non-English quotations, and written in MLA (Modern Language Association) style. There is a website link below giving a brief guide to this.

Submissions should not have been previously published or be under consideration elsewhere. See website for the separate email addresses of the nonfiction, fiction and poetry editors.

As Aethlon is a small literary journal a contributory copy of the journal is the only payment that can be made.

For further information and to download an index of published content: https://sportliteratureassociation. wordpress.com/aethlon/