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Issues Guidelines post poetry & prose for free immediately on the web at the Freedom & Strength forum

All issues released in 2010 are sold directly through the printer, so customers bo not send checks to Scars Publications directly. To order 2010 issues, go directly through the printer to place their order.

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All magazine published from Scars Publications are released on the web — as a free downloadable PDF file (e-book, or e-issue), as well as on a web page. In this way people can enjoy the magazine on the Internet for free. Down in the Dirt magazine originally started as an ezine only, but became available as a print issue to people interested in owning a print copy of this electronic magazine (four years after the magazine started). Down in the Dirt magazine has made every effort to continue to have issues available for free online. When Down in the Dirt magazine recieves so many short stories, print issues often appear more cluttered with smaller typefaces in our efforts to place more material in each issue. (In actuality, the Internet issues are often easier to read and cleaner looking than the print issues, when you can even jump from the Table of Contents in each web page issue to the writing of your choice...) Print issues are offered to people who are interested in keeping a hard copy for their own records, but since over the years Down in the Dirt magazine has always been available primarily as an e-zine for free on the web, free print copies are not given away. Because all magazines published from Scars Publications are released on the web (as a free downloadable PDF file as well as on a web page), it is always been the policy of Scars Publications to not give away free print issues.

Ordering copies of Down in the Dirt Print copies of issues v013 (09/04) through v077 (12/09) can be ordered via check or via PayPal (credit card), and PayPal issue links are available at the issue web page. 2010 issues (perfect-bound 84 page books) are available for printer sale; links are available at both the issues page for the issue and the actual issue wen page. Links to ordering issues for 2010 also appear with the accepted writing in the writings section of http://scars.tv, if anyone appreciates the writing and wishes to purchase a print copy of the issue.

U.S. ORDERS via credit card:

If you would like to purchase a print version of any of these issues (from issue #13 09/04 on) via credit card, anyone from the United States may do do by clicking on the link for ordering copies of any of the issues we have here. HOWEVER, you MUST e-mail us to let us know WHICH issues you’re ordering (as this link is only for generically purchasing an issue of Down in the Dirt, but not a specific issue).

CANADA ORDERS via credit card:

If you would like to purchase a print version of any of these issues (from issue #13 09/04 on) via credit card, anyone from Canada may do do by clicking on the link for ordering copies right here. Keep in mind that when orders are processed via PayPal, we have adjusted the issue price to account for the difference in shipping costs to Canada, so it will list that costs $6.00 American to order a copy from Canada. HOWEVER, you MUST e-mail us to let us know WHICH issues you’re ordering (as this link is only for generically purchasing an issue of Down in the Dirt, but not a specific issue).

U.K. ORDERS via credit card:

If you would like to purchase a print version of any of these issues (from issue #13 09/04 on) via credit card, anyone from the U.K. may do do by clicking on the link for ordering copies right here. Keep in mind that when orders are processed via PayPal, we have included the chipping costs in the issue price, so it costs $6.50 American to order a copy from the U.K. However, there is no shipping change (we placed the shipping charge in the issue price, so your shipping is automatically calculated in your order). HOWEVER, you MUST e-mail us to let us know WHICH issues you’re ordering (as this link is only for generically purchasing an issue of Down in the Dirt, but not a specific issue).

Down in the Dirt is a new magazine which is running all accepted works on the internet as well as choosing work to appear in an annual book. We are always looking for new writers with new poems and short stories, so we would love to hear from you!

Down in the Dirt is looking for new writers - & we’re looking for you!!!

You can post writing at Freedom & Strength Press’ message boards, or you can also choose to e-mail the editor (Alexandria Rand) with all of your questions and submissions. For submitting writings to us: we perfer all submissions to be emailed to us. If any of your submission has bolds or italics, or has any special characters (like “smart quotes” or “curly quotes” - which applies to both double-quotes and apostrophes, any long dashes, ellipses, anything that does not appear plainly on a keyboard), then the best way to email submissions to us would be to email attachments of either Microsoft Word “.doc” files or as “.rtf” files. If there are no special characters (or bolds or italics or indentations, though as a rule we prefer writing without special indentations) they could even be emailed in the body of an email letter to us, or can even submitted directly, through the fields below. . Your name: E-mail address: Your “Down in the Dirt” writing for consideration:

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...you can even visit the home page for some of the writing from Alexandria Rand...

from the Naples Daily News, 02/18/07: “Pretty soon, you may not only be able to get the dirt on someone, but store the info in dirt too. Japanese researchers will report in an upcoming journal published by the american Chemical Society that they’ve developed a method of copying and pasting data recorded in artificial DNA into the genes of a common soil bacteria, Specifically, they stoed the message “E=MC2 1905” — Albert Einstein’s famous 1905 energy-mass equation — on a splice of the genetic material of a bacterium called Bacillus subtilis.”

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