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Thank you for your interest in Acta Victoriana! Literary and visual submissions for Acta Victoriana’s 150.1 Fall supplement are open and will close on September 26th. Please review the guidelines below before submitting.

Poetry and Short Fiction Submissions

Submission guidelines:

  • All submissions must be anonymized. Please do not include any identifying information in the name or body of your submission file. Please note that submitting documents via Google Forms does allow Google Forms to make a copy of the document with your name included in the title; we are aware that this happens and it is not an issue, as long as there is no identifying information within the document itself.
  • Pieces should be written in Times New Roman, font size 12. Exceptions will be made if font style/size is integral to the work.
  • Documents will only be accepted in the PDF format.
  • Poetry submissions may not exceed 250 lines per poem.
  • Prose submissions may not exceed 2500 words per piece. When submitting prose pieces, please include a word count at the top of your piece.
  • Each writers may only submit up to three pieces, poem or prose.

Good to know:

  • An honorarium of $20 per piece will be given to the writers selected for publication.
  • As a courtesy to other contributors, please submit only once per submission period.
  • We encourage simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if your pieces have been accepted elsewhere.
  • Acta Victoriana will only contact successful submitters. You may inquire about the status of your piece by sending an email to editors@actavictoriana.ca, but we kindly ask that you refrain from emailing until at least one month after our submission period has ended.
  • If you are uploading multiple submissions, please upload your submissions as separate documents, one in each file upload question.

Submit here.

Visual Submissions

Submission guidelines:

  • .jpg is preferred.
  • Minimum 300 DPI quality.
  • Each artist may only submit three pieces for consideration in each submission period.
 

Note that given the large of submissions we receive, the editorial board reserves the right to automatically reject submissions if submission guidelines are not followed.

Good to know:

  • An honorarium of $20 per piece will be given to the writers selected for publication.
  • As a courtesy to other contributors, please submit only once per submission period.
  • We encourage simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if your pieces have been accepted elsewhere.
  • Acta Victoriana will only contact successful submitters. You may inquire about the status of your piece by sending an email to editors@actavictoriana.ca, but we kindly ask that you refrain from emailing until at least one month after our submission period has ended.

Submit here.

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editors@actavictoriana.ca