This is Your Space to post your work online! Your Space is more like a blog meant for general submissions on any day, any time. You may post your poems, brief stories and even views on various issues. However, writings should be non-political in nature and avoid controversial and sensitive issues. For young readers, this space offers an outlet for their creative urges. They can post their poems or short fiction. Your Space is not suitable for long literary articles.
Here you can comment and react to the postings of others. Grab your keyboard and tap away your appreciation or disagreement. This is the only way to engage in a healthy discussion and also help young writers refine their skills.
Matter posted in Your Space will be carried unedited, except for correcting glaring mistakes. Etiquette in language and courtesies to others are expected here. While Muse India editors would hate to play censors, they will intervene in case the language or the content of postings becomes objectionable in their opinion.
Posting of submissions of original works and responses may take several hours, as we don't have staff continuously attending to this work. So, avoid repeatedly posting the same matter.
It is to be noted that posting of work in Your Space is not akin to getting your work published in the Muse India journal, which happens only after a rigorous appraisal and acceptance of the work by the editors of the journal.
Please preserve your work posted here, both as soft and hard copies. Due to space constraint, we retain and display only the postings of the last 2 or 3 months in YS. Older postings are regularly deleted. So, keep your backups.
Karthik Devalla is the Editor of Your Space (Email: karthikdevalla.hyd@gmail.com).
If you have any queries or difficulties, you may write to him.
Guidelines to be followed while posting
1. Follow these “Guidelines” while posting your work.
2. Upload your submission only through the link “Post Your Work” given below. Do not mail them to the Editor, Your Space. Contact the editor only in case of any difficulty.
3. When submitting for the first time, you must send a short bio-note (and not a CV/ biodata) about yourself and your photo, to help us create your Author profile. Without an author profile, submissions beyond the first may not be published.
4. In every subsequent submission, your name should be given just as in your author profile (as displayed).
5. Generally, don’t post more than one piece per day.
6. Poems can be up to 40 lines only. Stories and articles may be restricted to 1000 words.
7. Always use Times New Roman font with size 12 or Verdana font with size 10. Maintain line spacing of 1.5. Avoid fanciful decorations in the matter.
8. The title of the poem/ story/ write-up should be given in capital letters at the beginning of the matter in the text box. (Besides giving it in the submission details at the top.)
9. All submissions are approved for publication after the editor’s review and with corrections where necessary.
10. Use italics to highlight any word in the matter and not CAPITAL letters.
11. Clarity in what you write is essential for others to understand. Express your ideas without hurting the sentiments of others. Otherwise, this could be rejected or edited suitably.
12. Do not write ‘i’ for ‘I’. Please follow punctuation carefully. Do leave space after a comma and not before a comma.
13. Use the ‘Response’ facility in a posting to send your observations on it. Be encouraging and helpful in your comments.
14. For any clarification beyond the specified guidelines, you may contact the Editor mentioned above.