
photo credit: Abhinaba Basu
GUIDELINES:
Current or former Honors students at an institution in the Western Regional Honors Council (WRHC) are eligible to submit work to be considered for publication in The Palouse Review.
Please submit only original, unpublished work, a maximum of three or six submissions in each category*, e.g. three short fiction pieces may be submitted by one author.
We regret that we are unable to pay our writers/artists, but we do our best to promote your work on our site and through any applicable social media networks.
The editors will make every attempt to respond to your submission within eight weeks.
*Poetry and Photography & Visual Art allows up to six works.
Any questions about the submission process can be directed to colin.criss@wsu.edu. Please label the subject field as “Submission Question.”
FICTION: We consider short literary fiction. There is no specific length requirement but we suggest 5,000 words or less. Make sure to upload your works in separate documents with a .doc, .docx, .odt, or .txt extension.
NONFICTION: We consider personal essays, biography, narratives anchored in fact or real events. There is no specific length requirement but we suggest 5,000 words or less. Make sure to upload your works in separate documents with a .doc, .docx, .odt, or .txt extension.
SCHOLARSHIP: We consider all topics within the humanities, social, and political sciences. We are looking for carefully crafted essays or research papers of a philosophical, scholarly nature. There is no specific length requirement but we suggest 5,000 words or less. Make sure to upload your works in separate documents with a .doc, .docx, .odt, or .txt extension. If you use pictures, tables, or graphs in your work, please ensure all such media is less than 1 MB in size each.
POETRY: We seek all styles of poetry. We accept a maximum of six poems submitted for a given edition of The Palouse Review. Make sure to upload your works in separate documents with a .doc, .docx, .odt, or .txt extension.
PHOTOGRAPHY AND VISUAL ART: We consider all forms of visual art utilizing all types of media, including photography, painting, drawing, assemblage, collage, graphic design, architectural models, and fabric art. Please submit 1-6 JPEG or PNG images of your art work. The file size for each file must not exceed 20 MB, however, the preferred size is <500 kb (0.5 MB) (your image will be resized for web if it is above this limit).
MUSIC: We are looking for original auditory pieces. The submitter must be the composer of the music submitted but may not necessarily have written the lyrics. Submitting the score is encouraged but not required. The music submission may include video and must be accompanied by a 200-250 word abstract describing the submission.
DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA: We accept short videos; animated films; documentary-style videos; and audio projects. Digital multimedia projects must be posted to a hosting service such as YouTube, Vimeo etc. We will access your project through the link to your project. A short, 200-word essay may accompany the piece, but is not required.