RICE / PROTECTED INTAKE
Submissions
RICE uses the St. Expedite Press portal for protected manuscript intake and correspondence.
Submit through one verified route.
The portal requires human verification, validates one manuscript document, forwards it directly to the editor, and returns a reference number.
- Year-one model
- Invitation-weighted and deliberately narrow
- Solicited
- 70% / anchor contributors and commissioned reporting
- Targeted calls
- 20% / themed and time-boxed by volume
- Discovery
- 10% / room for work outside the planned network
- Platform
- St. Expedite protected submission service
- Payment
- On acceptance; commissioned reporting split assignment/acceptance
- Rights
- Formal contributor agreement before payment
Use only the linked portal for manuscripts. The public chatbot can explain the process but cannot read, retain, forward, or retrieve a file. A handoff is complete only when the portal displays a reference number.
RICE is interested in precise regional knowledge, contemporary pressure, formal risk, documentary residue, strange humor, and writing that refuses to make the South harmless. Geography is a route, not a gate.
FUTURE CALLS
No invisible slush pile.
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