Submission Guidelines:

• Hyperlexia is interested in honest, thoughtful, well-written poetry and prose about being autistic or loving someone with autism. We want genuine and truthful writing about autism. Our journal is a celebration of real life with autism, both the good and the bad. You can be serious, sad, or funny. We believe in respecting the diversity of the human mind, and discriminatory writing or hatred of any kind will not be published.
• Submissions should be 3000 words or less.
• Send submissions inside the body of the email, as well as attached as a Word doc.
• Write "Hyperlexia submission" and the genre of your submission (i.e., poetry, essay, or fiction) in the subject line of your email.
  
• The deadline for submissions for our next issue is July 31st, 2009.

Brittney Corrigan
Poetry Editor

Brittney's poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Oregon Review, Stringtown, Manzanita Quarterly, and Many Mountains Moving, and the anthology What Have You Lost?, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye.  She has just been appointed as the new Executive Director of Soapstone, a writing retreat for women near the Oregon coast. Brittney is the mother of two children, Imogen and Elliot, who is on the autism spectrum. She lives in Portland, Oregon.  You can visit her blog at mcelroychronicles.blogspot.com.

Phoebe Gleeson
Prose Editor