General Guidelines

Shaking like a Mountain invites fiction, creative non-fiction and poems that respond to specific songs, musicians, or bands. While the work needs to be related to music, it will be judged on its literary merits. In other words, you will not be punished for your musical tastes. Please follow the genre-specific directions below to ensure that your work is read in a timely fashion.

Response times likely will range from five minutes to six weeks to three months to never, in the event that the email server eats your work (it happens). If you haven’t received a response within two months, send an email with the word Query on the subject line. Simultaneous submissions are accepted with the hope that you will let SLAM know if the work is accepted elsewhere. Previously published work may also be submitted, but please specify where the work originally appeared in the body of the email. Lastly, the founders of Shaking like a Mountain did not intentionally choose a name that would form the acronym SLAM. Frankly, if they had realized this sooner, they may have considered alternate names, such as Shaking like a Jello-mold.

We ask only that you follow these tedious guidelines to make handling the work more efficient. In addition, SLAM will no longer accept previously published work unless it has been requested.