Tag: Guidelines

The Shadow Mountain Slush Pile opens soon so I thought I’d better do another… TIPS FROM THE SLUSH PILE! Shadow Mountain recently made the change to limit submissions to 50 pages. You’ll notice this does not include a word count. Yeah, so did some people submitting. Your 50 pages should have: – 1 inch margins […]

Tips from the Slush Pile: Let’s talk fonts. The industry standard is Times New Roman, 12 pt font. Some other fonts are acceptable, like Garamond and Calibri, because those are easy to read and don’t strain the eyes. You want to display your writing as much as possible so an easy font is best. However, […]