By submitting work to KYSO Flash, authors warrant that their work
is original and has not been published elsewhere, including print and electronic
venues (author websites, social sites such as FaceBook and Fictionaut, and
blogs, etc.) and that no one else has reserved the rights of first publication
that we’re asking for.
Contributors also warrant to the best of their knowledge that submitted works
do not infringe on anyone else’s copyrights, and that they do not include
libelous content.
The KYSO Flash contract for original, previously unpublished works
covers the following rights:
- Exclusive First Worldwide Electronic Rights for up to three
months from date of acceptance. We ask that accepted work(s) not be published
in any other medium, print or electronic (including blogs, Facebook, and author
websites), during that time.
This covers the time period from acceptance to publication (i.e., the launch
date of the Issue in which the work appears), plus the one-day period after
accepted works first appear at the KYSO Flash website.
Rights to reprint works revert to the author/artist 24 hours (one day) after
initial date of publication here. When reprinting works first published in KYSO
Flash, publishers are asked to obtain permission from the author/artist
and to credit this journal for first publication. In addition, we ask that citations
include the full title of the work as it appears in KYSO Flash.
- Non-Exclusive Internet Archival Rights for an indefinite time,
in order to include published works in our online archives.
Our publisher agrees to “stand by the works,” meaning that works in
general will not be removed from our Archives, but will remain there as elements
of Authors’ and Artists’ publication portfolios. Publisher agrees not
to “un-publish” Works, unless they are later determined to be libelous,
plagiarized, or otherwise in breach of this agreement.
- Non-Exclusive World Anthology Rights to reprint, in electronic
and hardcopy forms, any original works first published here. Rights are retained
for an indefinite time for potential ebook and hardcopy anthologies and promotional
materials. This also includes the right to feature in future issues of KYSO
Flash any works first published therein which also win awards such as the
Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction. Although
KYSO Flash does not guarantee to nominate works for such prizes and
awards, authors grant permission for such nominations at our publisher’s
discretion.
Non-exclusive anthology rights mean that authors and artists may publish the works
in other anthology markets beginning 24 hours (one day) after the initial date of
publication in KYSO Flash online.
The KYSO Flash Anthology, in softcover form, is projected for publication
each year in December. Contributors whose works are selected for reprinting in the
book will receive one complimentary book as compensation.
Each author with at least one original (previously unpublished) written work
published in KYSO Flash online in a calendar year will have at least
one written work reprinted in the annual print anthology.
- Rights to nominate works for awards and prizes:
We ask for non-exclusive rights to feature in future issues of KYSO Flash
any works first published therein which also win awards such as the Pushcart, Best
of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction. Although KYSO Flash
does not guarantee to nominate works for such prizes and awards, authors grant
permission for such nominations at our publisher’s discretion. This also
includes permission for works selected for the afore-mentioned awards to be
reprinted in those anthologies.
In addition, our publisher routinely submits the current year’s KYSO Flash
print anthology to the online venues Poetry Daily and Verse Daily,
each of which showcases a new poem each day which they’ve selected from works
that first appeared elsewhere in literary magazines, journals, and books. Authors
and artists grant permission for their works, if selected by either or both venues,
to appear at these websites.
