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Calliope Submission Guidelines

We are excited to announce that the Department of English at CSUB is welcoming submissions for Calliope! For our 2025 issue, we are looking for essays by Arts & Humanities students that address any aspect of literature, art, and culture. In addition, we are accepting book reviews on recently published literary works. Publishing in a journal is a major accomplishment, so we hope you consider sending your work to Calliope.

Submission Details:

• Essay submissions can be 5-15 pages. We accept a broad range of academic essays, whether they are focused on literary analysis, close reading, or research. There are no restrictions on historical period or literary genre being studied in your essay.
• Book reviews can be 2-5 pages. We are especially interested in reviews that cover recently awarded books by prizes such as the National Book Award or the Booker Prize Award, though we are equally as interested in reviews that address underrepresented literatures.
• Essays and book reviews are to follow MLA Style guidelines (Times New Roman, 12-point font, 1-inch margins, double-spaced, Works Cited page).

Submission & Review Process:

• Please submit your work by midnight on March 1, 2025 to calliope@csub.edu from your @csub.edu account.
• After submission, the editorial team will acknowledge receipt of your work through email.
• The submission will be anonymized for a blind review process to ensure the editorial team is objective and fair at all stages of the process.
• The entire editorial team will carefully review your work collectively.
• Once a consensus has been reached, you will be contacted on whether the work has been selected for publication.
• Any additional edit requests will be sent to the author following selection.

Calliope looks forward to working with you this semester. We are eager to read and review your writing! It is an honor. Please feel free to send any questions you may have to calliope@csub.edu.

Click on the link below for an electronic copy of Calliope 2024:

Calliope - 2024

Click on the links below for electronic copies of Calliope:

Calliope - 2023

Calliope - 2022

Calliope - 2021

Calliope - 2020

Orpheus Submission Guidelines

Welcome to Orpheus’ Submission Guidelines Page - we are so glad you found us! We believe that creativity is limitless and encourage students from all fields of study to submit! We can’t wait to share your creativity!

Submission Details:

• We accept submissions of all kinds—there are no restrictions on content or form.
• Please refer to page limits (below) for each genre before submitting.
• You are welcome to submit to multiple categories.
• Please proofread your work before submitting. However, intentional spelling or grammar choices that are integral to your creative vision are acceptable.
• For literary works, please submit your piece(s) in a single Word document.
• For works of art, please submit your piece(s) as a single .pdf document.
• Physical art, like sculptures or pottery, must be photographed.
• Work of any kind generated using AI will not be accepted.

How to Submit:

• Send your submissions to orpheus@csub.edu from your student csub.edu account.
• The submission deadline for the Spring 2025 issue is midnight on March 1st, 2025.
• Include your name as it appears on your school records.
• Please include “Submission” in the subject line of the email.
• If you wish to publish under a pseudonym or anonymously, please indicate this in your submission.
• Feel free to include social media handles if you’d like readers to connect with you and your work.

Categories:

Poetry: 
Submit up to 80 lines of poetry. Poems of any style are welcome - song lyrics included! 

Short Stories:
Submit up to 15 pages in total. Short stories must be doubled-spaced. Short stories of any genre are welcome. You may submit multiple stories, but the cumulative page count for all stories should not exceed 15 pages.

Chapter(s) from Larger Literary Piece:
Submit your best chapter(s) from any point of your longer work in an excerpt of up to 20 pages total; writing must be double-spaced.

Scripts:
Submit up to 20 pages total. The script may be of a play/screenplay/video game/podcast/etc. Scripts should be submitted in standard script format.

Illustrated Comic Strip/Excerpt from Graphic Novel/Graphic Short Story:
Submit up to 10 pages total, black and white or color, in PDF format.

Art:
Submit up to 5 works of art. All submissions must be scanned or photographed properly and sent in PDF format. We accept all art! This may include, but is not limited to, drawings, photography, paintings, sculptures, illustrations, printmaking, etc. 

Evaluation Process:

The faculty advisor will remove your name before bringing your work(s) to the student editorial board. This is to ensure that the evaluation of your work will be fair and unbiased. Our blind selection process allows for everyone’s voices to be considered and heard! 

Submit today and let the editing team at Orpheus help bring your creative vision to life!

Check out the gallery of previously published editions of Orpheus by clicking on the links below!