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SUBMISSIONS

Submissions for Issue 43  are open until Dec. 31st

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Send us your dreams, visions, prayers, and private universes. We can’t wait to hear from you!

 

PROSE: 

  • You may submit no more than 2 entries.

  • Maximum word count per entry: 3,750 words, double-spaced.

  • E.g. fiction, creative non-fiction, anecdotal essays, plays, scripts.

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POETRY:

  • You may submit no more than 3 entries.

  • Maximum limit per entry: 2 pages, single-spaced.

  • E.g. free verse, blank verse, limericks, haikus, sonnets.

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VISUAL ART:

  • You may submit no more than 4 entries.

  • Maximum file size per entry: 10MB.

  • E.g. photographs, drawings, paintings, design/graphic work.

GENERAL INFORMATION

  • Bricolage Literary & Visual Arts Journal only accepts unpublished submissions. If your prose, poetry, or visual artwork has been previously published, we will not consider it for publication. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer compensation at this time. 

  • Contributors retain all rights but are asked to acknowledge Bricolage as first publisher if poems reappear in books or anthologies.

  • You must let us know when you submit that the piece is under consideration with multiple publishers. If your piece gets accepted for publication elsewhere, please notify us immediately.

  • We DO NOT accept academic/research papers, critical essays, news articles, or technical documents.

  • All submissions are reviewed anonymously. Please DO NOT include your name anywhere within the document or in its file name. The submission form WILL record your name, which will only be revealed AFTER we have made final decisions.

  • For collaborative projects, it is the responsibility of the submitting writer/artist to obtain permission from each participant prior to submission.

  • PLEASE NOTE: Due to the large number of submissions we receive, we are unable to review any submissions that do not adhere to the following guidelines. 

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Make a separate file for each work you submit.

  2. Ensure that your submission is as free as possible from errors.

  3. If prose or poetry: Format your submission to be 12pt font in either Times New Roman or Arial.

  4. Apart from the body of the submission, include only your UW Student ID Number. DO NOT include any part of your name in the file. 

  5. Save your file in this format: “category—title of work—student ID number.docx” DO NOT include any additional information in the file name. All file names MUST follow this format. Example: Prose—The Tale of the Husky—0714589.doc 

  6. Complete the submission form for each section to which you would like to submit: 

    1. Prose Submission Form​

    2. Poetry Submission Form

    3. Visual Arts Submission Form

  7. If you have any general questions, send them to bricouw@gmail.com or message us on Instagram.

  8. If you have questions about a specific section, send them to bricouw.prose@gmail.com for prose, bricouw.poetry@gmail.com for poetry, and bricouwvisualarts@gmail.com for visual art.

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