Who Can Submit?
Students and alumni of Pacific University may submit an original piece of work to be considered for publication in PLUM: Pacific Literary Undergraduate Magazine.Just be sure you own the copyright to the work being submitted or are authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).
General Submission Rules
Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: “publication” in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. Simultaneous submissions are okay.
Students may submit:
Up to 3 poems and 20 pages of creative nonfiction or fiction. (Only one submission in each category.)
Poems must be submitted in a single set, with one cover sheet. Only one story or nonfiction piece may be submitted.
Submission Format
Each submission must have a cover sheet with the following information:
1) Name of writer.
2) Writer’s email address.
3) The genre of the work. (Fiction, nonfiction or poetry.)
4) Title
5) Name of creative writing course and semester in which work was produced. (The piece must be written for a course at Pacific during spring semester 2010, fall semester 2010 or spring semester 2011.)
The author’s name must not appear anywhere on the pages of the work. Number all pages.
Put your submission in a 9 x 11 inch envelope and mark on it “Creative Writing Competition”
If You Are Chosen
Pacific University Award in Literary Analysis
Aim: To recognize the sophistication of critical writing produced by emerging literary scholars at Pacific.
Given to the best submissions of critical writing produced by students in literature courses during spring semester 2010, fall semester 2010 or spring semester 2011. (This includes majors, minors, and students in other majors taking literature courses.) Judged by an outside scholar/reviewer.
1st Prize: $200
2nd Prize: $50
1 honorable mention
1st Prize essay will be published in Plum (Pacific’s Literature by Undergraduates Magazine).
Pacific University’s Amy M. Young Award in Creative Writing
Aim: To recognize the quality of creative writing produced by emerging writers at Pacific.
Given to the best submissions of creative work produced by students in creative writing courses during spring semester 2010, fall semester 2010 or spring semester 2011. (This includes majors, minors and students in other majors studying in introductory or advanced creative writing courses.) Open to fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Judged by an outside writer/reviewer.
1st Prize: $200 in each genre
1 Honorable Mention in each genre.
1st prize poem, story and nonfiction will be published in Plum (Pacific’s Literature by Undergraduates Magazine).
Submit to: Prof. Kathlene Postma’s mailbox at Bates House.
Deadline: March 31, 2011
