Guidelines for those who wish to submit:

 

Potato Monkey is looking for stories. We pay $20 local money, some other amount to overseas submitters depending on the stock exchange or the reserve bank or whatever makes these numbers confuse me. Look, it all goes in bank fees in any case. Really short stories and poems we pay $5. That’s about the price of a sandwich without a milkshake.

 

 

That’s all very interesting but what kind of stories do you want?

 

We want interesting stories. We want the stuff that doesn’t really fit in anywhere else, and when it tries the other words point at it and shake their heads and go “that guy is just weird man” while they’re kicking footballs at each others’ groins behind the shed. If you had three sons and the first one was moving into the family business and the second son was going to Uni to study to be a lawyer, we’d buy your third child. Not that we condone child-selling. It’s a metaphor. Or something. Basically we want to read stuff that’s experimenting and pushing the boundaries a bit. We want to be a place where authors can try out the things they can’t try out in magazines with binding and such. Of course it’s all subjective and taste and blah-de-blah so yaknow we’re not just gonna buy anything because it’s a little bit “artsy”, it also helps if it’s got some heart to it or something to say. That and stories with monkeys in them. We’ll buy any old shit if it’s got a monkey in it.

 

 

Yeah yeah, thanks for that, that’s a big help. So how do you want it formatted? I hear courier new is the manilla folder of the new millennium.

 

Yeah, look, courier’s cool, but let’s be honest, I really don’t care. Just don’t do anything that makes it hard for me to go “select all, change to 12 point courier, double space” and we’ll be cool.

 

 

So do you want it as an attachment?

 

Yes, yes we do. An “rtf” please. If your file is not an rtf you can change it using the “Save As” function in Word (and possibly other programs). Rtfs = less viruses and here at the monkey, less viruses is the new not-scratching-the-record-when-you-change-the-song.

 

 

And where do we send it? (this should really have been put up the top)

 

Hey, don’t tell me how to design my website, imaginary questioner.

 

Send submissions to: potatomonkey@gmail.com

 

Your subject line should read “Submission: Title”, except of course with “Title” replaced by the actual title of your submission, unless of course it’s actually called “Title” in which case that’s just fine and dandy.

 

 

And how long should we wait before we complain about the slow reply?

 

Wait three months before you start to complain, then after six months you can begin to whine. Or you could just inquire at the above email (“Inquiry: blah-de-blah”), and we’ll tell you whether it’s almost on its way back, or if I accidentally gave it to my flatmate with a phone message scrawled on the back and will have to rummage through the bins sometime to find it.

 

Don’t inquire if it’s only been, like, two weeks, because the monkey just gets confused. On the flipside, if it’s been a few years, you should probably shoot an inquiry our way. Emails do get lost, and we ain’t that slow.

 

 

Well that’s all lovely. I’m off to write something.

 

You’d best be writing, imaginary questioner. I don’t want to have to fill this magazine with my grade two Doctor Who stories.

 

 

 

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