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Camera Obscura Journal
PO Box 2356
Addison, TX 75001
Phone: (214) 578-8146
E-mail: editor<at>obscurajournal<dot>com
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Online submissions: yes (see website) Reading period: year-round Response time: 1-3 months Payment: 2 copies + one writer each issue receives a $1000 honorarium Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 978-0-615-35621-1 Founded: 2009 Issues per year: 2 Distributors: Ingram Periodicals, Ubiquity Copy price: $12.95 Average pages: 150 Sample price (postpaid): $15 Subscription (individuals) 1 year: $30 Subscription (institutions) 1 year: $40
Publisher’s description: Camera Obscura is a biannual journal of fine literature and photography, showcasing the work of established and emerging writers and photographers with the intention of creating a full-color volume meant to be read and enjoyed, as well as displayed. Writing and photography is not intentionally selected for its collaboration, but is chosen based on individual merit. Contributors to our first issue include writers and artists from the US and Canada as well as the UK, Romania, and Lithuania. Volume One of the Camera Obscura was shipped to subscribers in over thirteen countries.
Recent issues:
Issue 3 of the Camera Obscura Journal of Literature & Photography features short stories by Adam Peterson, Vincent Czyz, Leslie Pietrzyk, J. Caleb Winters, Gerri Brightwell, Chidelia Edochie, and Barret Baumgart along with the photography of twenty-two artists, including Chan Kwok Hung, Rafal Maleszyk, Claudio Allia, and Patrizia Burra.
The Winter 2010 issue of Camera Obscura Journal of Literature & Photography showcases the photography of Chan Kwok Hung, Marcela Bolívar, Larry Louie and numerous other professional and amateur photographers from around the world. Rosebud Ben-Oni's novel excerpt "A way Out of the Colonia" wins the Camera Obscura short fiction prize and is presented along side the work of eleven other writers including Thisbe Nissen, Mark Budman, Henriette Lazaridis Power, and Scott Nadelson.
Camera Obscura Journal's inaugural issue (Volume 1, Summer 2010) is a full-color volume featuring short stories by eleven writers including Nani Power, Claire Bateman, Robert McGowan, and Kane X. Faucher whose story "Sanscript" won Camera Obscura’s first writing award. In addition to prose, this issue showcases the work of sixteen photographers. Among the artists are Tom Chambers, Robert Alvarado, and William Horton, the winner of our photography contest in the professional category, judged by acclaimed photographer Jacklyn Patterson.