PRELAUNCH

RICE / INTAKE STATUS

Submissions

Closed until the editorial calendar, contributor contracts, payment fund, and intake system are ready.

CLOSED

No reading period is open.

Do not email manuscripts. The former mailbox was not operational and has been removed. No work sent outside a verified call can enter the editorial queue.

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
Duosuma when activated; no email attachments
Payment
On acceptance; commissioned reporting split assignment/acceptance
Rights
Formal contributor agreement before payment

When a call opens, this page will state the exact theme, forms, rates, dates, response expectation, rights request, and verified Duosuma destination.

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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