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Submissions

Kolob Canyon Review accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art, and multimodal forms from SUU students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Please pay attention to the submission guidelines, as we may dismiss an entry for not following them.

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Submissions are OPEN.

Requirements

General Guides

  • Students, faculty, staff, and alumni may submit up to five (5) individual pieces per category. 

  • Current and former KCR staff members are allowed three (3) entries in poetry, visual art, and multimodal and two (2) entries for each prose category. 

 

We value fairness in our selection process. Our submissions are read blindly. However, because we are SUU students publishing exclusively SUU content, staff members might recognize others' work and are permitted to submit a limited number of their own pieces.

 

Your name or other identifying information should not appear anywhere on your piece in any capacity. If your name is present in the document, on the piece itself, or in its title, your piece will not be considered. 

 

We request that a bio be added to your submission through the comment feature in the Submission Manager, which will be kept blind until your piece is accepted or declined.

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Discriminatory and hateful work will not be tolerated. 

 

Work created using AI will not be accepted.

Prose

  • We accept CNF and fiction pieces up to 3,500 words. 

  • All text should be in 12 pt. Times New Roman font and double-spaced, including the title. 

  • The title should be centered at the top of your document. 

  • Please provide page numbers in the top corner of your submission.

  • Accepted file types: .doc, .docx

Important Details

Our Rights and Yours

We request first publication rights and only accept previously unpublished work. Upon publication, rights will return back to you. If the piece is published again elsewhere, please credit us as the initial publisher (and feel free to let us know so we can congratulate you).

 

In publishing with us, you consent to basic editing such as minor changes to spelling and grammar. Staff members may reach out to discuss larger changes. In certain cases, if you do not wish to make any changes, your piece may be declined.

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Your piece or selections from it may be used for marketing and advertising purposes, and we may reach out to you regarding recording your piece, interview content, and special events, among other items.

Response Time

You will receive a response from our team by the end of December.

Compensation

Because we are a student-run magazine, we cannot offer monetary compensation. 
You will receive one (1) free copy of the latest edition at the launch party, typically hosted in mid-April. 
If you are unable to attend, we will make arrangements for you to receive your copy.

Poetry

  • Poems should be single-spaced in 12 pt. Times New Roman font, including the title.

  • Individual stanzas should be separated by at least one (1) space.

  • Poems should not exceed two (2) pages. 

  • We print accepted pieces exactly as they are typed in the document. We will do our best to preserve unique formatting choices within the limitations of our printing restrictions. Please note that page dimensions in the journal are 6x9 inches. 

  • Blackout poetry will not be considered.

  • Accepted file types: .doc, .docx

Frequent Questions

  • Revised submissions that were not previously accepted are permitted.

  • Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but please make sure to withdraw your piece if it is accepted elsewhere.

  • We'll still celebrate your publication, even if it isn't with us!

  • English translations of published work are not permitted.

  • Excerpts of longer works are not permitted.

Visual Art

  • Each piece must be submitted individually as a PDF (.pdf). Please no other file types. 

  • If your piece is composed of multiple pages, please limit it to five (5) pages combined into a single document to be considered as a single submission.

Multimodal

Any piece that combines multiple mediums combining written work with visual art and/or auditory performance falls under the category of multimodal. 

This new category focuses on visual storytelling, video art, audio, and other blended, multi-medium pieces.

  • Submit a transcript and an accessible, unlisted YouTube link in a Word document for any video or audio pieces.

  • Video & audio submissions should be no longer than 10 minutes long. 

  • If your piece is composed of multiple pages, please limit it to five (5) pages submitted as a single PDF (.pdf) document.

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