We publish quarterly in January, April, July and October.

At Turn the Page Magazine, our focus is on highlighting the very best work of the members of www.notebored.com and www.libertyhallwriters.org. In order to submit for this magazine, you must first be a member of either one of these sites.

Members of NoteBored and Liberty Hall come in all ages, from teens through seniors. Students are encouraged to give their age when submitting; it factors into our evaluation process.

A panel of our editors review and vote on all submissions. You should get a response that we received your submission. Turn-around for your submission should be within a few weeks to a month.

Genre:

We don’t have a specified genre. The focus of Turn the Page is to highlight the best of what our community is doing. We have categories that allow all the outlets of creative writing representative of the NoteBored.

What not to send:

Please do not send us any of your work that contains over a PG-13 rating. This includes excessive language or dark themes.

Simultaneous Submissions:

Are fine with us. Just be sure to let us know as soon as you can that we need to pull your work off our desk, should it be accepted elsewhere.

Reprints:

We encourage you to send us stories you have published elsewhere. Please enclose previous publication information, including the date, with your submission to us.

Rights:

We ask one-time publication rights, with the right to archive your work.

Pay:

We cannot offer payment at this time. We will revisit this decision as we accumulate a subscriptions and donations.

Word Count:

This depends on what category you are submitting for consideration. Please note that we are not publishing novels, but will accept one-chapter excerpts of novels written by NoteBored/Liberty Hall members who have already published their work, with purchasing information for our readers.

*Flash submissions can be up to 1,100 words, in keeping with the limits we have established on the NoteBored’s Flash Fiction Challenges.

*Short Stories can be up to 10,000 words, though keep in mind that we only accept one short story per publication period.

*Creative Non-Fiction (true events, dramatized using the techniques common to fiction) has the same word limit as Short Stories, and because of the length, we will only publish one per publication.*Poetry, please send us no more than three submissions per issue, and the poems shouldn’t exceed 60 lines.

*Poetry, please send us no more than three submissions per issue, and the poems shouldn’t exceed 60 lines.

*Children’s stories can come in many shapes and sizes. This can include poetry, picture and chapter books. Obviously, a webzine format doesn’t do this target audience justice. However, if your story doesn’t go over 10,000 words, we’d like to see it.

*Plays (stage and screen) are fine to send, provided they are skits or one-act plays. Please use the standard format for each version.

*Essays, please only send us thoughtful essays on things a general audience would find interesting. While you can workshop your school paper on why the Yanks won the Civil War and get comments that will help you get a good grade, we will not be publishing it. If, however, you have thoughts on current events, the writing process, or your own personal reflections on things, and they interest our editors, we would like to see it! Please don’t go over 2,000 words.

*Interviews with authors and publishers are highly coveted. We also accept interviews with other interesting people. Again, please don’t go over 2,000 words.

*Reviews can cover nearly everything you might want to evaluate. Books, movies, music, software, the latest gadgets, etc. Please keep the review short and to the point, within the 500 to 1,000–word range.

Artwork and Audio:

Please host to your own server space. In your submission, provide us with a link to view/listen to your work. If we accept it, we will then host to our server. It is our hope that every issue will have one story or interview highlighted as our feature, with the companion illustration as our cover. A simple query at the NoteBored forum will give you the most up-to-date information on the feature story and our illustration needs for the cover.

 

We have provided a submission form for your use:  Submit your story here