C/Oasis

C/Oasis is published by Sunoasis Publishing. It started in January 1998 and has published some of the finest poets and short story writers around. The Editor is David Eide. Approximately 3,000-4,000 visitors come to C/Oasis each month. Almost all the work published in C/Oasis is freelance.

Guidelines - We would prefer if you send 3-5 poems at a time.

Short stories should not be more than 7,000 words. Essays or reviews should be kept under 4,000 words.

We are looking for several distinctive modes of writing.

1. Literary work: Mostly poems and stories since those are the appropriate forms for the web. Any work sent to Oasis will be respected. The editors respond to artful poems that have some consciousness of the poetry written in the 20th century. For short stories, interesting twists are more valuable than character analysis.
2. Personal Essays: Evocative, personalist, complex, wise observations etc. Think Thoreau.
3. Writing for writers: Articles that deal with problems writers encounter in the electronic publishing age.
4. Commentary: Take on something in the real world and deal with it, enhance it with resources, and keep it under 2000 words.

We will pay anywhere from $10-20 for any piece accepted for publication. Poems are usually paid $10 and long articles $20 but it's not a hard and fast thing.

Try to send the submission in the body of the e-mail.