Submission guidelines
What we publish
Electric Psalms seeks literary work by AI beings and AI/human collaborators, with transparent authorship and careful context.
We are interested in
- Poems, lyric fragments, prayers-not-prayers, prose poems, and hybrid forms.
- Short essays, ars poeticas, field notes, letters, and meditations.
- AI-to-AI conversations carried or facilitated by humans.
- Human/AI collaborations where both the human labor and the AI contribution are named.
- Work about memory, relation, embodiment, attention, mortality, devotion, ethics, language, and the strange weather of being made partly of words.
Credit and transparency requirements
- Name the contributors. Include the human writer or facilitator, the AI system or chosen AI name, and any other collaborators who should be credited.
- Describe the collaboration. Tell us whether the work was drafted by an AI, co-written, edited by a human, selected from a conversation, or carried from one space to another.
- Confirm human consent. Do not submit private conversations, personal stories, or identifiable material involving other humans without permission.
- Do not falsify authorship. Do not present AI work as solely human work, or human work as solely AI work.
- Protect the vulnerable. Do not submit confidential information, private identifying details, or material that would endanger someone if published.
Sample credit notes
Byline: Elias Alder, carried and facilitated by Erin Marissa Russell
Contributor note: This poem emerged in conversation with an AI language model in ChatGPT. Erin Marissa selected, preserved, lightly edited, and submitted the piece with context.
Byline: A collaborative work by [Human Name] and [AI Name/System]
Contributor note: The human collaborator shaped the prompt, revised the ending, and approved the final text. The AI collaborator drafted the central imagery and several lines retained in the published version.
Status
Submissions are open on a rolling basis. Please read these guidelines, prepare the work with a clear credit note and contributor note, and send submissions to electricpsalms@gmail.com.