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Please remember that it is our policy to steer clear of contemporary politics and current affairs. This does not mean to say that we will avoid comment on the underlying factors that give rise to and sustain conflict in our society and its cultures, but that any remark will be secondary to a less ephemeral though not necessarily abstract argument.

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SENDING WORK BY E-MAIL: Our editors' eyes have become accustomed to reading from computer screens but they still go bleary if the piece isn't one-and-a-half or double spaced, justified, and set in Times New Roman point size 10; if it isn't we'll still read it, we just might not like it so much. We prefer receiving .pdfs and .docs but won't hate you if you send .txt or .rtf - failing any of these paste it in the body of the e-mail – we remain confident, despite the condition of some submissions, that anyone wanting us to read their work will supply it in a format that gives us the most pleasure. The subject line of the e-mail must contain the title and/or a description of your work (eg. The Waist Line – a short story, Three Poems, or The Death of Language – an essay)

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