Submission Guidelines

 

Current Submission Deadline: Closed until September

Prose - Submit fiction up to 3000 words.

Poetry - Submit no more than 5 poems.

We want good, highly imaginative writing about contemporary life as you see it. We’re not interested in genre writing (romance, detective, horror, sci-fi) unless it somehow rises above the conventions associated with those types of writing. If your writing is clichéd, inspired by TV, emphasizes end rhyme above all else, has flat characters, exhibits a general insensitivity to the beauties and subtleties of language, it will not find a place in this journal.

We do accept simultaneous submissions, and we promise to let you know about your submission within three months.

No pornography. No racism. No sexism. If you’ve got to use profanity, remember a little goes a long, long way.

IMPORTANT:

• Undergraduate Students: Only the work of current undergraduate writers will be considered. In order to verify your status as an undergraduate, we ask that with your submission you send along the email of a faculty member from your department. Until we gain confirmation of undergraduate status from this reference, we will not be able to publish your work.
• Note to Widener Students: At this time, work from Widener students will not be accepted. Widener students are invited to submit their work to the Pioneer Review, the university's print journal.
• Frequency of Submission: If your work has been published in The Blue Route, we ask that you please wait at least one issue before submitting again.

Terms: We pay twenty dollars upon publication. We acquire First North American Serial Rights, a one time, non-exclusive use of Electronic Rights, with all rights reverting to the author upon publication. We will archive your work online. If your piece is later published elsewhere, we expect that you will mention The Blue Route as the original publisher.

Formatting: We ask that you put no identifying marks on your submission. Instead, in your submission email, we would like the following information provided:

Name (First and Last)

Title of Submission(s)

Name and Email of Faculty Contact for Enrollment Verification

A Brief Biography (No more than 100 words and written in the third person.)

Please only send attachments with .txt, .rtf, .doc, or .docx as the extensions or we will not be able to read your submission.

For submissions: Please write "Poetry-- Your Name" or "Fiction-- Your Name" in the heading of the email. Deviations from this form may cause your submission to be rejected. Send all poetry or prose submissions to wutheblueroute@gmail.com.