Submission deadline is December 24, 2009!

Submissions

Now accepting submissions for the 39th edition. The deadline for submissions is December 24, 2009. This year's theme is "Change".

Please read all the submission guidelines carefully before submitting!

Eastern Michigan Unviersity Students
Submission Guidelines
Submitting Your Work

Eastern Michigan University Students

Those who qualify to submit, include:

  1. Currently-enrolled students at Eastern Michigan University
  2. EMU students who have been enrolled in classes within the last eight semesters (approximately 4 years)
  3. Staff of EMU
  4. EMU alumni

In order to be more cost and time efficient all communications will be via email. Please provide an accurate email address. The deadline for submissions is 12/24/09 at 11:59 pm.

Submission Guidelines

Be sure to read all of the guidelines before submitting!

Your file must be completely free of personally identifiable information. This is necessary for an impartial jurying process.

Cellar Roots does not accept previously published works or works simultaneously submitted to any other publication.

Any questions should be directed to the Copy Editor.

Written Submission Guidelines

Written work must be submitted in .DOC or .RTF. We cannot accept .DOCX, .WPS, or .WPD files. Multiple poems must be submitted individually, with each document titled with the name of the poem or prose piece. All prose pieces must be double-spaced.

A maximum of five entries for poetry or ten pages double-spaced of prose are allowed. Fiction entries can be an excerpt from a larger work. Please complete fields carefully.

Any questions should be directed to the Copy Editor.

Visual Art Submission Guidelines

Files may be submitted in .JPG, .JPEG, .TIF, .GIF, or .BMP format. A resolution of at least 300 dpi and 9" in largest dimension is preferred, insufficient resolution may negatively affect the desirability of your work for inclusion in our journal.

A maximum of five entries for visual art are allowed. Please complete fields carefully.

If you are not able to get your artwork photographed, a session will be set up with the Art Department. Please contact the Staff Photographer if you are interested.

Any questions should be directed to the Copy Editor.

Cellar Roots follows The Chicago Manual of Style.

Submitting Your Work

Submit your work by email attachment to cellarroots.copyeditor@gmail.com. Please send individual emails for each submission. In the body of the email, please include the following information:

First Name
Last name
Phone Number
Email Address
Address
City
State
Zip Code
Title of Work (please match it to file name)
Medium of piece (for visual art only)
Category of work: Prose, Poetry, or Visual Art
Category of entrant: Student, Alumnus, or Staff
Student Number:

The subject of your email should read "Your First Name Your Last Name, (Category) Submission, Title of Piece"

For example, if your name is John Doe and you are submitting three poems, titles "This Poem, That Poem, and Another Poem" your first submission should have the subject line of "John Doe, Poetry Submission, This Poem"

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