Submission Guidelines
Include your full name, the title of your submission, your email address, and a short 150-word bio. While submissions previously published on personal blogs are acceptable, we do not accept submissions previously published in other publications including those that have been self-published.
General submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis. All submissions for contests will receive either an acceptance or rejection notification. Please review the contest page for themed submissions.
Prose: Submit no more than one prose piece at a time. Prose should be single-spaced, Times New Roman font, and no longer than 2,000 words. Submit as Microsoft Word or PDF.
Poetry: Submit no more than three poems at a time. Poems should be single-spaced in a Times New Roman font as a Microsoft Word or a PDF file.
Submissions may be sent through the Submit tab on the Four Tulips website or via email to editior@fourtulips.com. Include the title in the subject line of any email submission. Please keep in mind that submissions may be edited.
Four Tulips acquires only the first serial publication rights of accepted work. Copyright is asserted on behalf of the author; all reprint rights (print or electronic) revert to the author upon publication.
Contests with cash prize winners are awarded via check after award announcements. All authors included in print anthologies receive one copy, free of charge, mailed to their provided address.
Submission Policy Terms and Conditions
Four Tulips Publishing, LLC owns and operates digital products including: www.fourtulips.com and other websites; newsletters and other content we deliver via email; and social media pages (collectively, the “Sites”). Together, Four Tulips Publishing, LLC and its products are referred to below as “Four Tulips,” “we,” or “our”.
Your use of the Sites, as well as your attendance any Four Tulips events, and associated products and services, regardless of media, is subject to the terms, conditions, and disclaimers set forth below; to our Online Privacy Policy; and to all applicable laws and regulations. In addition, Four Tulips reserves the right to terminate access to the Sites or events for any reason, and to take any other actions that Four Tulips, in its sole discretion, believes to be in the interest of the company and some or all of its users and customers. Four Tulips reserves the right to modify these disclaimers, terms, and conditions of access, without advance notice.
By using these services, you are entering into this agreement and waiving your rights to participate in a class action lawsuit or class-wide arbitration, and you agree that all disputes between you and Four Tulips will be brought on an individual basis only.
Please note that our Sites are under constant development. This Agreement may therefore be modified and updated on an ongoing basis. Please check back to this page regularly.
Some of the Sites may allow users to upload, submit, and/or post images, text, video, profile information, comments, e-mails, or other data and information (“User Submissions”). By uploading, creating, or submitting User Submissions to or on the Sites, or to Four Tulips through any other means:
You affirm, represent, and warrant that you own the right to utilize, to license and to sublicense the User Submissions;
You grant to Four Tulips, and anyone authorized by Four Tulips, a non-exclusive, worldwide, paid-up, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual license, including right of sublicense, to use, copy, assign, display, distribute, perform, reproduce in whole or in part, and modify the User Submissions in any medium or any manner, in whole or part (whether now known or hereafter developed), without any restrictions to you, for the sole intended purpose of the Sites and/or services provided;
You grant to each user of the Sites a non-exclusive license to access the User Submissions through the Sites and to use, reproduce, distribute, display, and perform such User Submissions as permitted through the functionality of the Sites and under this Agreement; and
You acknowledge and agree that User Submissions may be permanently maintained on the Four Tulips’ servers.
You acknowledge that Four Tulips is not responsible for, and cannot prevent, the publication or use of your User Submissions by any third parties who copied your User Submissions during the time in which it was displayed on the Sites.
For any User Submissions you post that you do not own, you guarantee to us that you have the legal right to post such User Submissions and that it will not violate any law or the rights of any person or entity. In other words, and among other things, you will not post user submissions on the sites you do not own without permission of the owner of the user submissions, including written, photographic, music and video user submissions.