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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Islamica Magazine warmly welcomes letters from its readers. Selected letters will be published in the next issue of the magazine. We welcome feedback, criticism, support and anything in between. Please use the bottom section of the contact page to submit mail for our Letters section. For your letter to be considered, you must include your name and curent contact information.
SUBMISSIONS/STORY IDEAS: Islamica Magazine invites the submission or pitches of story ideas as well as completed articles, essays, fiction and poetry. A general familiarity with what we have published in the past is the best guide to our needs and preferences. Story ideas and manuscripts must be emailed to
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Submissions should not exceed 3,000 words.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submitted material should be accompanied by a cover sheet with the following information: title, category, word count, author’s name accompanied by short bio and e-mail address. A submission has a much greater chance of acceptance if it conforms to the following guidelines:
- Length between 1,000 and 2,000 words
- Limited or no use of jargon
- Limited use of Arabic words (if the word can be translated, translate it)
- Non-academic or technical prose; do not assume readers have any special knowledge of what you are writing
- Do not use polemical language or arguments. Islamica strives to publish essays and articles that are thoughtful and reasonable in nature.
Additionally, the following guidelines from the essay "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell are also relevant:
- Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
- Never use a long word where a short one will do.
- If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
- Never use the passive when you can use the active.
- Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or jargon if you can think of a common-language equivalent.
- Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
POETRY GUIDELINES: The editors of Islamica Magazine read with interest and attention every poem submitted to the magazine, but because of space limitations, cannot publish all poems submitted. Our interest is in the broadest possible range of work: traditional forms and free verse, the meditative lyric and the “light” or comic poem, the work of the famous and the work of the unknown. We have long been committed to the discovery of new poets. Our one limitation is length; we are unable to publish very long poems, and authors should consult back issues of the magazine for precedents.
PLEASE send all submissions to
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GENERAL FEEDBACK on our website, requests for past Islamica Magazine articles, or other queries relating to the magazine are always welcome. Please see our contact page to get in touch.
SUBSCRIPTION QUESTIONS: For questions relating to your print subscription, please visit our subscription inquries page. Alternatively you may send an e-mail to
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or you may call our subscription management office at 1-800-975-5536 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. EST.
Finally, you can always write to our subscription management office at:
Islamica Magazine
P.O. Box 555
Mt. Morris, IL 61054-0555
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