Submissions
RockScissorsPaper Submission and Style Guidelines
*RockScissorsPaper attempts to publish most SRU student submissions. We reserve the right to deny any work for any reason. Works will be edited for format/grammar only.
There are many types of submissions we would love to have. Please click on that link to the right to submit!
What We Accept
- Creative Writing (This is a new category as of Fall 2018, so we highly encourage submissions of this variety!)
- Literary Critiques: This can include literary or cultural criticism, philosophical literary discussions, the use or appearance of literary references in our culture, and reviews of books or other texts. Submissions should be no more than about 2000 words in length.
- Editorials/Opinion Pieces: This can include work on a variety of current event or cultural topics, pedagogy, stories about an experience at a concert or reading, or reviews. Work should be no more than about 700 words in length.
- Visual Art: This can include graphic interpretations and commentary on literary work including photographs, paintings, illustrations, short videos, or other forms of graphic creations, critiques, or interpretations.
*Please click on the links in the taskbar to view examples of each submission already on our site!
Submission Guidelines:
- RSP publishes submissions on a tri-annual basis. We request submitters to send in their work before the advertised deadline.
- As this is a student-targeted and student-run literary magazine, we please ask that you submit work in MLA format. (https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_general_format.html)
- If your work is over ten pages (Creative Writing only), anticipate the piece to be broken into installments, with each installment being published within a two week period.
- Submissions received by the advertised deadline will go through a selection and editing process by our editorial staff. Authors should expect feedback within a two week period. Once the editing process is complete, the work will then be published onto our website.
DISCLAIMER: Please be aware that RockScissorsPaper posts only the true, original work of our applicants. We are not responsible for the content of the stories submitted. Therefore, there may be content that may make readers uncomfortable or offended. Content may include but is not limited to: sexual language and situations, profanity, abuse, etc. We apologize if you are offended or uncomfortable in any way, but we will not alter our applicants’ work besides editing grammatical, spelling, and structure errors. We value our submitters and believe their vision and expression should not be tampered with. Thank you for reading RockScissorsPaper, and feel free to submit!