Please submit your work electronically through our Google Submission form. Unlike previous years, we are no longer taking submissions via email. Along with your work, please be prepared to provide contextual information and personal contact through our form. Information with your submission will include:
• Basic information about you and your submission.
• A biographical statement of the contributor(s) (100 words or less for each contributor). If your submission is selected for publication, this information will be used for the print journal and for promoting your work online.
• Any accompanying text that you imagine being published with the submission to introduce the work or orient the audience to it (especially for film, visual, audio, and electronic media).
• A link to your work, housed in an online folder (DropBox, Google Folder, etc). Your submission files should be named appropriately with contributor/group name and title. Remember to grant the co-editors access.
• A 250-350 word statement that connects the submission to the guiding questions posed in this call for submissions and to geographic themes. This statement is for the editors’ reference and need not conform to any particular style or format.
Journal Format
The journal will be released in print and online on our updated webpage. Because of the limitations of printed media, works using electronic media (audio, film, etc.) will be featured in full online, while aspects (such as screenshots, QR codes, or lyrics) may appear in print; other genres will appear in full both online and in-print. While electronic media cannot appear in its entirety in the print version, we will include the titles of works and information about how to access them in the print edition.
If you would like to submit materials that are in a language other than English, please email us to discuss your vision. If it is in our collective capacity to review these materials, we will do so.
Please see below for genre-specific guidelines.
Poetry
Please format poetry in the way you imagine it being printed. PDF forms are the most likely to retain line break integrity across platforms so we recommend submissions in this format.
Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction & Essays
Maximum length is 1,500 words. Writers are encouraged to include photos, artwork, etc. to accompany their piece (following guidelines below). Please provide in-text citations or footnotes/endnotes that are most commonly used in your discipline (Chicago Manual Style, APA, Harvard, MLA, etc).
Photographs, Photo Essays, Maps, and Other Visual Art
Image files may be submitted via email or online platform (depending on file size). Images must be submitted in a .tiff file format at a resolution of 300-600 dpi at the size they are intended to be printed. Be prepared to also supply lower resolution (72 dpi) images and/or screenshots for web promotion if your work is featured.
Audio, Film, and Other Electronic Media
Audio or film submissions should be limited to 15 minutes; shorter works are encouraged. Audio should be in .wav format and film should be in .mp4 format. We strongly encourage you to submit introductory text to accompany your electronic media, film, or sound works to give the audience an orientation to the work and connect it to journal themes.
Contributor Rights
After publication, you are here retains nonexclusive rights for the continued use of your work in both print and electronic forms. You can republish work published in the journal as long as you credit you are here with original publication.
Review Process
Submissions will be reviewed by at least two graduate student reviewers who work in geography and/or the arts. The final collection will be curated by the editors to create a diverse set of works engaging the journal themes from a variety of perspectives. Submissions will be accepted or rejected for inclusion in the issue -- there will be no rounds of revisions, but works may receive suggested edits for publication.