Vine Street Press Publication Guidelines
1. All submitted works should treat recognizeable southern themes, in terms of subject,
characterization, and/or setting, although greater leeway will be allowed for poetic works.
2. Works on controversial subjects are welcome, although works that are hateful, racist,
perjorative, defamatory, sexually explicit, obscene, vulgar, or otherwise offensive or
distasteful will be rejected.
3. All submitted works must be accompanied by the author's name, a short bio line, city and state
of residence, and a valid email address. VineStreetPress.com (VSP) will not divulge the email
address of the author unless specifically authorized by the author to do so.
4. Novels and novelas may be accompanied by a bookcover graphic.
5. All submitted works (with all the commercial rights inherent therein) remain the property of the
author or authors. Publication of a work by VSP implies no commercial interest therein by VSP
whatsoever.
6. We regret that we are not able currently to offer outside works for sale on this site, although
we hope to be able to do that in the near future under a modest affiliate arrangement.
7. VineStreetPress.com reserves the right to, entirely at its own discretion, reject any submitted
work, or, after a work is accepted, to delay the publication thereof for a time not to exceed 90
days from the date of submission. In the latter case, a work not published within 90 days will
not thereafter be published without the written consent of the author.
8. The author of a published or accepted work may request discontinuance of or withdrawal from
publication at any time. VSP will normally endeavor to comply with such requests with
reasonable promptness, but shall retain the right to continue publication, for a period not to
exceed 15 days, at its own discretion.
9. Authors, by the act of submitting a work, acknowledge that they have read, understood, and
agree to abide by the provisions of these guidelines, and hold VineStreetPress.com and its
owners, administrators, editors, and other contributors free and clear of any and all legal claims
that might arise as a result of the publication thereof on this site.
10. Comments on or reviews of all works published by VSP are welcome, but such should be in
keeping with these guidelines in general and with item 2 above in particular. Commentators
and reviewers are encouraged to be as constructive as possible. Our primary mission at VSP,
after all, is to encourage southern writing and southern writiers. This caveat applies most
particularly to works published here by VSP. (More leeway may be granted to reviews of
commercially available works not published by VSP so long as they are in keeping overall with
these guidelines.)