META Updates, December 2025 IssueHello, this is the meta section of the website. Here I post updates and changes that I plan on making, as well as lessons learned.Upcoming ChangesAuthor Bios: Now must be 2 - 3 sentences and under 120 words. - I had difficulty formatting the Author Bios into Photoshop on the page templates. I will start enforcing this and Revise/Revision work if the author bio does not meet this.Cover Page Payment: I think that instead of utilizing Unsplash, I will start offering payment of $25? I have to come up with a number for this.Graphical Art: Because we're a digital publication, I do not believe we need to have 300 DPI. I will change this accordingly.Poetry: Any poetry that goes beyond what I can fit on a page, I will communicate with author to see how they want me to format it. Ideally, I will set guidelines for this in the submissions, but I have not entirely decided what that will look like.Prose: I may impose a character limit. Keeping it under 1k words is mandatory regardless. It was difficult to properly format it on the template that I designed.Submitted Work: I will mandate that each poem/prose has a word count attached to it. This way I can in the upcoming issues put this with the poem. (Maybe, I need to go look at other lit reviews).Community Development: Maybe I want a Discord Server? No idea. This is a small lit review that I run on my own and I do not know if I want the additional responsibilities associated with moderating/administering a Discord Server.**Age Limits: **Authors will continue to have to be 18 years old to submit here. I like that and it saves me headaches.Limitations: I think keeping a page limit for the publication at 30 is solid. This allows for me to be selective and publish about 25 pieces. But I am not sure. I will cap it at 30 pages total for the April Issue and make a determination for the September Issue. This may be on an issue by issue basis.Caard: I don't really like the Caard Layout and setup. While I am okay using it for this year, I will undoubtedly want to upgrade to Wordpress or Ghost.
Submissions open for the April Issue on January 15th, 2026