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Suggested Places to Submit

Below, you'll find a selection of journals and magazines and other places to start looking, as recommended by both Creative Writing Faculty and Students. These journals have been selected as places amenable to publishing work by undergraduates and/or new writers.

On-Campus

You can start your submission process on campus. The following College publications will publish creative student work:

Peal The Peal crew publishes the college's literary journal each semester. They take fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, as well as photos and illustrations. Look for their annoucement for submission deadlines; the deadline is usually in the first term of each semester.
Owl & Spade The school's Magazine, the Owl & Spade is primarily a tool for keeping alumni and friends of the college informed about the major events. The Owl & Spade generally publishes feature articles that address such events, as well as profiles on alumni and staff or faculty. Contact John Bowers, the Director for Campus Communications, for more information.
The Echo The school's newspaper has a section for creative nonfiction called "The Roots." Contact the editors at echo@warren-wilson.edu for more information about what they're looking for in submissions.
Student Anthologies Some creative writing students put together anthologies for their creative writing internship. Each anthology generally has a theme (previous anthologies have touched on subjects like the Work Program or What Students Will Miss About Warren Wilson, for instance) and solicit work from students. Anthologies usually are announced with posters and/or through the English-L mailing list.

Off-Campus

General

North Central Review Put out by North Central College, the North Central Review considers all genres for submission, provided it's work by an undergrad. You'll need to provide proof of student status (like a .edu e-mail address or a photocopy of your student ID, minus the ID #) with your submission. http://northcentralcollege.edu/x2925.xml

Washington Square Edited and produced by the NYU Graduate Creative Writing Program students, Washington Square publishes the work of emerging writers in addition to established writers. They prefer electronic submission, though they'll take mail. http://washingtonsquarereview.com/

RHINO "Eclectic and Lively" RHINO is a 35-year-old publication of poetry and flash-fiction (1,000 words or less) that publishes work by both new and established writers. They will take up to five poems at a time, through either mail or their electronic submissions manager. Their reading period is April 1 - October 1, 2011. http://www.rhinopoetry.org

Glimmer Train Gilmmer Train is a well-respected short-story journal that pays for its stories, and reads work by new writers. They have an award given out three times each year for new writers, but they want a reading fee of $15 for entry. Their standard submissions have no reading fee (word limit is 12,000), and occur January, April, July, and October of each year. They have an electronic submissions manager on their website, but will take snail mail. http://www.glimmertrain.com/

Environmental / Place-based

French Creek This journal is only open to currently enrolled undergraduates and takes "essays, poetry, fiction, travel writing, and art that concern environmental or place-based subject matter." Their reading period is September 1st to April 30th. See http://frenchcreekjournal.allegheny.edu/submissions.php for more information about their submission requirements

Natural Bridge has put out a call for a special Earth-themed issue (deadline May 1, 2011), www.umsl.edu/~natural/

Natural Bridge… has called for a special section on The Living Earth defined in the widest sense. Some possible approaches could include the natural world connected with ecopoetics, home places, domestic spaces, ancestral presence or absence, sustainability, rivers and wetlands, migrations of plants/animals/ people, human conflict/war, spiritual matters, city life…Send fiction and nonfiction up to 30 pages, and submit one work per envelope. Poets may submit up to five poems per envelope. No electronic submissions.

Hawk and Handsaw: The Journal of Creative Sustainability (Unity College, Unity, Maine) www.hawkandhandsaw.org/

Precipitate: Journal of the New Environmental Imagination http://precipitatejournal.com/

The Fourth River, Chatham College, “creative writing that explore the relationship between humans and their environments, both natural and built, urban, rural or wild. We are looking for writing that is richly situated at the confluence of place, space and identity—or that reflects upon or makes use of landscape and place in new ways. http://fourthriver.chatham.edu/

Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment http://www.flyway.org/

Earth Island Journal: News of the World Environment: “Our quarterly magazine combines investigative journalism and thought-provoking essays that make the subtle but profound connections between the environment and other contemporary issues” www.earthisland.org/journal/

Higher profile journals with the same theme:

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments http://terrain.org/

High Country News: For People Who Care About the West http://www.hcn.org/

Orion Magazine: Nature, Culture, Place www.orionmagazine.org/

North Carolina

Tar Heel Ink has a list of literary journals for North Carolina. http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/thi/lit.html

Explorations is a journal that publishes specifically undergraduate academic or creative work for the state of North Carolina. Submission guidelines are at http://uncw.edu/csurf/Submission.html

The North Carolina Literary Review publishes fiction and poetry set in North Carolina or by North Carolina writers whom they define as "anyone who currently lives in North Carolina, has lived in North Carolina, or uses North Carolina as subject matter." Submission guidelines at: http://www.nclr.ecu.edu/submissions/