What Is An Undergraduate Literary Journal?
An literary journal is a collection of writings composed by various writers. Imagine a book filled with different stories from your undergraduate peers. From research essays to short stories, photography to poetry…a multitude of stories told through various forms of creative expression all held within the bounds of a book. That’s the undergraduate literary journal Echolalia is striving to publish.
Who Can Submit?
Submissions are open to all undergraduate students of any year, faculty, and degree currently enrolled at the University of California, Irvine. Mindful of the traditionally exclusive nature of academia, we are especially excited and encourage anyone from any/all identities and cultural backgrounds to submit, including (but not limited to): Indigenous communities, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, people of low-income backgrounds, neuro-diverse people, and people with disabilities.
Accepted Genres & Preferred Formats
In this edition, we are looking to publish the following:
• Academic Essays (max. 10 pages)
• Creative Writing: prose (max. 10 pages), poetry
• Visual Artwork: photography, sketches, drawings, paintings
• Community Involvement: interviews from community events, reports on exhibitions
Please submit your work in the following formats:
• Times New Roman, 12 pt., double-spaced, .docx format
• Appropriate APA citations, with works cited, if citing outside sources
• Visual Artwork: .jpeg or .png formats
• Poetry is an exception; there is no required format for poetry submissions
Submitting Your Work
We are not currently accepting submissions. Fall cycle applications closed on Wednesday, 10/08.
For your submission, make sure to follow the prior formatting as well as the following guidelines, adding whatever is necessary into your Google Doc submission:
• If you are submitting any visual media such as artwork, photographs, etc., then please include a brief artist statement outlining the context of your submission and its relation to this years theme.
• Please do not include your name on any of the pages of your submission.
• You may submit multiple pieces, but please be aware that it is highly likely that only one piece will be published.
• If your work has been submitted and/or accepted into another journal, please let us know. While we would love to publish everyone’s work, we are currently prioritizing unpublished submissions.
• All submissions must follow UCI’s policies regarding academic integrity and plagiarism.
Submissions must be relevant to our current theme, which can be accessed through the navigation menu at the top of this site.
Your work will be reviewed in a double-blind process by members of our team, making the exclusion of personally-identifying information in your submission very important.
Payment?
Regrettably, due to the small nature of this project, we currently do not have the funds to pay our contributors for their work. However, we hope to grow to be able to organize such funding in the future.
Questions?
Check if the FAQ page might answer your question.
Otherwise, email echolalia.journal@gmail.com and we will do our best to clarify.