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using the Submittable system. Please one submission at a time, no
multiple submissions. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, as long
as you immediately notify the Guernica editors that your piece has
been accepted elsewhere. With rare exceptions, writers are not
compensated. We rarely accept nonfiction submissions solely from the
pitch. To avoid delayed responses, please send the full manuscript
you’d like us to work with. We are only interested in original,
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