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Controlled Burn  is produced by the Associate in Fine Arts degree program of Kirtland Community College and is funded through the Kirtland General Fund, the Division of Literature and Language Arts, and the Division of Fine Arts. 

Controlled Burn accepts unsolicited manuscripts of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction between May 1 and December 1 of each year; all manuscripts received outside this reading period will be returned unread. Mail submissions to Controlled Burn ,  Kirtland Community College, Roscommon, MI 48653.   (Manuscripts sent without an SASE will not be returned. )

Or you may email submissions to cburn@kirtland.edu during the same reading period.

Simultaneous submissions are not encouraged but are accepted; however, please indicate in your cover letter if you are submitting your manuscript to other journals concurrently.