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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