Vulgata XVII

 General Information





Vulgata is an on-line market, and we don't pay by the word, so you can make your story as long as it needs to be. However, writers beware: often excessive length is the result of padding or unfocused story-telling. Before you send us your beloved 20 000 word juggernaut, make sure that you couldn't say the same thing in 5000.

What we are looking for is writing that really communicates. We want to see the beautiful pictures that appear in your head. We want to get inside the feelings and joys and disappointments of your characters. Art is a tremendous gift that allows us to penetrate the barriers of subjectivism: don't waste it on imitative schlock. Show us something that is yours, not something that is just like the summer's best blockbusters -- but with a twist...

Our mission is to support the creation of art, and the renewal of culture. Since this can be accomplished in any genre, we are willing to consider any genre: classic romance, Greek tragedy, phantasmagorical allegory. Anything. That is, anything except what usually passes for "Christian fiction." If your work could believably be placed in a Chicken Soup for the Soul collection, or turned into a teledrama for the local family-friendly television station, we don't want it.

That said, we are a Catholic magazine. So no moral gut-rot. You don't have to be Catholic to write for us. You don't have to be Christian. Your story can be dark as hell. But its moral and metaphysical underpinnings must not be evil. Same thing with sex: include it, if it's appropriate, but use it to "tell the truth about the human person," not to titillate and arouse.



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