Please email all submissions to: nwbvdmagazine@ewu.edu
*If submitting to multiple genres, please send each submission in a separate email.
Nonfiction Submission Guidelines
*We are currently only accepting submissions from undergraduate students of Eastern Washington University. Follow us on social media and we will announce if this changes!
Submitting to multiple genres is accepted and encouraged. Please send each genre submission in a separate email. Make sure to follow the correct guidelines for each corresponding genre.
General Guidelines
Authors will submit only their own original work that has not been previously published in a newspaper, magazine, or periodical. If a work is accepted by us, the author will retain all copyright.
Authors will submit only on behalf of themselves. It is assumed that the submitter of the document is its author. Plagiarism and intellectual theft are not tolerated, and if discovered, will result in the exclusion of the submitter’s works from the magazine.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Contact us as soon as possible if your work has been accepted for publication elsewhere.
Attention to conventions for grammar, spelling, and formatting are essential. Please ensure that your work has been edited and proofread and is ready for publication before submitting it to us. Contact the EWU Writer’s Center if you would like personalized help to ensure your work is at the highest possible quality.
If you have a pen name or preferred name, please include your preferred name in the email subject line and body.
Document Titles
To preserve the integrity of our acceptance process, we ask that you do not put your name anywhere in the document name or in the document itself.
Document Name: [Genre]- [Piece Title] (attached as a .doc or .docx file)
Example: Fiction – My Story.docx
Email Subject Line
Email Subject Line: [Name]-[Genre]-[“Title”]
Example: Madison Flint – Fiction Submission – “My Story”
Email Body
While we do not require official cover letters, we ask you write a professional email. If you are unsure of what to write, here is an example:
Dear [Name of Genre Head Editor],
Please consider my [story(s), essay(s), poem(s), art piece(s)], [“Title(s)”], [x words].
Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to hearing from you.
[Your favorite sign-off],
[Name]
Contact Information
We will reach out to the email you use for your submission in order to contact you about the status of your submission. There is no need to give any additional contact information.
Pen Name Reminder
If you have a pen name or preferred name, please include your preferred name in the email subject line and body.
Other Information
We understand that your work may include themes that might be off-putting for some audiences, and that’s okay: if your work contains sensitive topics, please include a content warning in the body of your email. Failing to give our staff any necessary content warning, or submitting any work that is purposefully offensive/discriminatory will result in your entire submission being discarded.
If there are people whose real names are included in your works, please get their permission to publish that work before you send it to us. Alternatively, you may change the names included in your works prior to submitting.
We want this magazine to be as inclusive, diverse, and accessible as possible for all members of Eastern Washington University’s community. For this reason, we will be excited to include works by diverse groups regardless of age, sex, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, etc., but please know that we will be looking at the quality of the work rather than the biographical information on the author when making decisions on what to publish.
We welcome work from writers of all educational backgrounds—you do not need to be an English, Creative Writing, or Art major to submit your work to us.
If you have a preferred first/last name that is not your legal name, please use your preferred name for both the subject of your email and the title of your submission. Clarify in the body of your email which name you would like your work to be published under.
Contact Information and Response Time
We assure you that we will do our best to give everyone a timely response on their submission status, however, in order to provide each piece with fair and equal opportunity, this process may take a few weeks or even months. Our staff is working diligently to ensure that we are not rushing your work and we ask for your patience during this process.
We will reach out to the email you submitted your work with to contact you about the status of your submission. There is no need to give us any additional contact information.
We look forward to reading your work!
Nonfiction Guidelines
Each author may send us one email submission including up to three original nonfiction works they feel are representative of their abilities. Each work should be on its own Word document (.doc, .docx file types).
We accept one work of 5,000 words or less OR up to three shorter works of totalling 5,000 words or less. Submissions longer than 5,000 words will not be read or considered for publication.
Your entire submission should be single spaced and use Times New Roman 12pt font. Please include a header with page numbers at the top of your document.
To preserve the integrity of our acceptance process, we ask that you do not put your name anywhere in the document name or in the document itself.
