Crystal Clear Creators, an arts organisation devoted to developing, producing, publishing and promoting new writing, is pleased to announce Hearing Voices, a new literary magazine. The magazine is now open to submissions (see below).

Description
Hearing Voices is a triannual magazine of poetry and prose by new, up-and-coming and established writers. The magazine will initially run for a year, and hence include three issues. Each issue will be edited by a guest editor, who will provide feedback on ALL submissions, whether or not they are accepted. Each edition of the magazine will have an ISBN and be professionally designed and printed.
The project will also include redesigning our website (currently out of action) in order to promote the magazine, and to include some of the submissions as a kind of showcase.
We hope to run a launch event sometime in 2011 (venue and date t.b.a.).

Timetable and Editors
This is a provisional timetable for publication, and will be subject to change:
15 October 2010 1st issue published, edited by Maria Taylor
15 January 2011 2nd issue published, edited by Sue Mackrell and David McCormack
15 April 2011 3rd issue published, edited by Mellissa Flowerdew-Clarke and Alex
Plasatis

Deadlines for submissions for each issue are as follows:
20 July 2010 deadline for submissions for 1st issue
15 November 2010 deadline for submissions for 2nd issue
1 March 2011 deadline for submissions for 3rd issue

Email submissions received after the deadline will be held over to the next issue. Some accepted works may, where necessary, also be held over to the next issue, depending on space and theme.
The overall coordinator and general editor of the magazine is Jonathan Taylor (crystalclearjt@hotmail.co.uk).

Submission Guidelines
Hearing Voices is a magazine of poetry and prose (short fiction and creative non-fiction). If you would like to submit poetry or prose to Hearing Voices, please send your work as an email attachment (MS-Word document or similar) to cccsubmissions@hotmail.co.uk. Please:

• include a short (three-line) biography about yourself in the email or on the document.
• send no more than three poems for each issue of the magazine. Poems should be no longer than 60 lines each.
• send no more than one piece of prose (fiction or non-fiction) for each issue, of no more than 1,000 words.
• do not send review or feature articles, which we cannot publish.
• make sure that your name is clearly displayed both on the email and on the attached document.
• only send original, unpublished work by yourself, which has not been simultaneously submitted elsewhere.

There is no payment for accepted work, but all writers included in the magazine will receive a complimentary copy. Uniquely, the editors will provide a short report on ALL submissions, whether or not the work is accepted for the magazine. We would encourage all writers who submit work to the magazine to consider joining Crystal Clear Creators (see below), but this is entirely up to you, and will not influence the editors’ decisions.
Please note that the magazine has an ‘interventionist’ editorial policy. If your work is accepted, the editors reserve the right to alter minor elements of the writing, or to make suggestions to you for further revisions. Submission to the magazine implies you accept this ‘interventionist’ approach. The editors’ decision on all work is final.

Please note
Ideally, the magazine will aim to publish as many different writers as possible. This means that we will normally only accept ONE piece per submission – so, if you submit three poems, we will normally accept one of them. We hope you understand that this is to maximise the number of different writers we can publish each issue. There will, of course, be exceptions made to this rule where deemed necessary by the editors.

Cost and Subscriptions
• Each individual issue of the magazine costs £3, or £2.50 to members of Crystal Clear Creators (see below). This includes postage and packing.
• A subscription to all three issues of the magazine costs £8, or £7 to members of Crystal Clear Creators (see below). This includes postage and packing.
• Membership of Crystal Clear Creators costs £5 per year.
Please send all cheques, with a covering note, to Crystal Clear Creators, c/o Dr. Jonathan Taylor, Department of English and Creative Writing, Faculty of Humanities, Clephan Building, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH.