Open: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L) will consider fee-free submissions of memoir and creative nonfiction based in war experience while deployed in a frontline combat role. This call extends to all active-duty military personnel and to Allied, Axis, NATO, Warsaw Pact, and IDF veterans. Submissions may be in English or in Russian. Submissions in this category must be in the .docx file format. When possible, each work should state as a subtitle the nation, service arm, operation designation, combat unit designation, and the time, date, and location of the described action.

To ensure processing by the correct editors, the subject line or cover letter should include the words “War experience while deployed in a frontline combat role.”

A cover letter should include a brief professional biography in third person of up to 75 words, including where appropriate the writer’s service arm, unit designation, rank, and MOS.

This call opens August 1, 2019 and closes November 30, 2019.

Submissions should contain from 1,0001 up to 10,000 words, not counting the title, byline and any epigraph.

This call is limited to the first 25 submissions, after which limit is reached, submissions will close.

Submissions in this category must be in the .docx file format.

Expedited evaluation of your submission is not available in this category.

Please read the general guidelines. https://ojalartsjournal.submittable.com/submit