Publishing Opportunities at Stony Brook
Publish With Us!
Submission Guidelines
RhetComp is always looking to publish writing by Stony Brook students. You do not have to be working on the blog to be published!
If you are interested in submitting your work, please submit it via this link.
We are looking for pieces that highlight students’ hard work so that it does not exist only in the classroom, eventually ending up lost on your hard drive. We are not looking for any specific genre but covering topics relevant to writing, rhetoric, and research is encouraged. Topics of previous pieces, include social justice writing, therapy writing, open-access research, zines, rhetorical analysis, literary criticism, policy advocacy, personal statements tips, literary magazine publishing, etc. We are currently not accepting pieces of creative writing, but reflective, personal pieces are welcome. PWR minors and those studying English are especially encouraged to submit papers from relevant classes.
Email us any questions at: rhetcomp.sbu@gmail.com
Timeline
If your piece has been selected to be published, we will notify you over email. Then, one of our editors will look at your piece and suggest edits over Google Docs, and they will email you when the edits are complete. All edits are suggestions that the writer can accept or reject. Please respond to editor suggestions in a timely matter and then reply when you feel the piece is ready for submission.
Thank you for your submissions!
Publishing Opporuntities Outside of SBU
(1) Undergraduate Journal of Contemporary Issues and Media (Annual deadline is January 15)
The Undergraduate Journal of Contemporary Issues and Media is inviting submissions for its 2024 issue. Now in its sixth year, we have established ourselves as a national venue in which to present critical social issues. This year our theme is “Writing into the Future: Possibilities and Projections.” We are interested in hearing from students about topics that relate to this theme, broadly construed. Students in all disciplines and all undergraduate levels are welcome to submit a piece in various formats (essays, podcasts, poetry, research reports, photography, art, and so on). This is a journal for students, created by students at the University of Utah.
For more information see the attached flyer. Feel free to visit our webpage for previous published issues: https://writing.utah.edu/undergraduatejournal/archives.php
The 2023 issue is in production and will go live February 2023.
(2) Rhet Tech Journal (Deadline Monday, January 23rd)
Are you interested in sharing your perspective on a topic you’re passionate about? Are you looking to gain notability by publishing your work? Then consider submitting your writing to James Madison University’s undergraduate journal RhetTech! The journal aims to highlight the work of undergraduate students in the disciplines of writing, rhetoric, and/or technical communication. Regardless of where you are in your undergraduate career, RhetTech is a great opportunity to have your work published in a peer-reviewed journal.
We accept a variety of content in a range of formats, including videos, podcasts, photo essays, reviews, websites, blogs, text-based essays, and more. Submissions are primarily accepted during the fall semester of each academic year, and each new issue is published near the end of the spring term. For full consideration for the 5th volume, please submit by Monday, January 23rd. That said, later submissions will be considered as we are able to read and respond to them.
For this year’s volume, we are planning a special issue on the broad theme of “Growth, Reflection, and Change.” Of course, there are a wide variety of topics that fit with our theme, and we encourage you to interpret it broadly.
That said, here are some topics we’d be especially interested in considering:
Reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic: How it has affected your late teens/early 20s, Your perspectives on the pandemic, What you’ve learned from and how you’ve grown in response to encounters with:
Ancestry: Heritage, Family, Identity, Culture
Relfection on Feminist Rhetorics topics, including but not limited to: Defining femininity/masculinity, Challenging the gender binary, Queer and trans rights,
Your perspective on political/social change: Throughout your life, Throughout college,
Growing up with the internet: Internet radicalization, Communication and connection, Social media
These are meant as examples of topics only and, again, we want writers to interpret our theme of “Growth, Reflection, and Change” broadly.
Why submit?
Chance to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, Opportunity to start a dialogue with other students of rhetoric, writing, and/or technical communication, Exposure to a national audience, Feedback from a dedicated team of editors, Experience writing for a professional peer-reviewed journal
To learn more about RhetTech and/or submit your work, visit: http://www.jmu.edu/wrtc/students/undergraduate/rhet-tech.shtml
(3) Process: Journal of Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Scholarship (Deadline Monday, May 22nd)
The Process is a quarterly publication that seeks to unite undergraduate students from various universities who are interested in engaging in contemporary academia and public scholarship. We are especially interested in discussions that concern social justice issues, transformative education, politics, identity, and cultural production. The Process is currently calling for submissions in anticipation of our upcoming issue “On Occupation.” This issue is suitable for pieces written both thoughtfully and critically, originating from a range of different perspectives and disciplines.
Our team will be looking for pieces that are geared toward (but not limited to):
- Military occupation
- Figuratively and literally occupying space
- Occupation as protest (the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest)
- Preoccupation; the transformation from passion to obsession
- Occupation as it pertains to employment
We accept two kinds of submissions: critical essays and nontraditional (or multimodal) compositions such as poems, short stories or digital artifacts. Any submissions that are considered traditional should be 2500-5000 words, accompanied by a 250 word abstract in which your project goals and intended contributions are detailed.
If you are interested in sending your work in for consideration, please visit our submissions page. To familiarize yourself with our website and previous issues, you can start with our most recent publication: On Everything.
(4) Queen City Writers: A Journal of Undergraduate Writing and Composition
Queen City Writers is an undergraduate journal dedicated to publishing essays and multimedia work by undergraduate students. Though located at the University of Cincinnati, our journal is open to any student currently enrolled with any post-secondary institution. Additionally, there is no hard deadline and we continually accept submissions for review in anticipation of our fall and spring issues.
We welcome the opportunity to look at pieces that relate to a range of topics such as writing, rhetoric, reading, popular culture and media, community discourses and digital composing. It is important to note, however, that we do not accept submissions that have already been published elsewhere. If you choose to submit, please keep in mind the different sections of our journal:
Inquiry – critical essays informed by research; 2,500 to 5,000 words
Multimedia – video, audio or mixed media pieces; include artist’s explanation of purpose, motivation, and intended effect; 15 minutes or less
Storming the Gate – essays written by first year college writers that demonstrates taking risks, exhibits innovative thinking and demonstrates robust potential of composition for emerging writers; 1,250 to 2,000 words
Reviews – reviews of books, articles, webtexts and other media related to our journal’s theme; 1,000 words or less
Snapshots – a quick peek into your identity as a writer, or an undergraduate writer you know, consider various demographics and types of writers; 500 to 700 words
Gabfest – in reaction to something published on our website, write a response that addresses a certain claim, raises a question, add onto something already said, or simply express your emotion from a piece; 250 to 500 words
For more information about the submission process and who to contact, visit this page. Additionally, take a look at our current issue!
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