SUBMISSION POLICY (updated April 3, 2019)
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR INTEREST AND SUPPORT.
FORKLIFT, OHIO IS ON HIATUS AND WILL NOT BE NOT BE ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS DURING OUR USUAL READING PERIOD IN MAY 2019.
PLEASE DO NOT QUERY THE EDITORS AT THIS TIME. WE WILL ANNOUNCE FUTURE PLANS VIA OUR EMAIL LIST AND SOCIAL MEDIA LATER THIS YEAR.
THANK YOU.
—MANAGEMENT
Be it known that Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety ("publication") shall:
- Appear approximately 1.618 times per year, preferably in APRIL and/or AUGUST.
- Be edited, designed, produced and published by longtime collaborators Matt Hart and Eric Appleby (here listed in chronological order) under the imprint of Forklift, Ink.
- Be hand-assembled in limited quantities from a variety of unusual materials.
- Actively seek out and solicit imaginative works of prose, visual art and poetry from authors and artists both new and noteworthy.
- Pay contributors in copies and the promise of food/libation/lodging upon their visit to the Greater Cincinnati area.
- Remain free of advertising.
- Fetishize the aesthetics of early industrialized society in a distinctly post-industrial fashion.
- Include, besides poetry, such diversions as recipes, agricultural wisdom, home economics lessons, and other bits of nonsense.
- Strive to maintain our record of over two decades as an accident-free workplace.
- Consist of approximately 150 pages, give or take.
- Thrive on the many uses of negation, whether logical or otherwise.
- Take poetry quite seriously, if little or nothing else.
- Deal obliquely with problems of language, communication, typography, commerce, and book-as-objet d'art.
- Nonetheless keep our politics to ourselves.
- Mistreat the perfectly acceptable word "Ink" by rendering it as an abbreviation (as in "Forklift, Ink.")
- Be sold almost exclusively online, utilizing PayPal(tm) to accept credit cards for purchase.
- Feature no work by celebrity chefs.
- Publish only enticing tidbits on our website for the purpose of making customers of unsuspecting visitors.
- Be greater than the sum of our parts.
- Respond to inquiries sent to editors@ForkliftOhio.com.