The Cypress Dome

Manuscript Submission Guidelines

All UCF students, undergraduate and graduate, are eligible to submit work to the magazine (the Cypress Dome staff will not be considered for publication).

Categories (ONE submission equals):
• Fiction -- minimum 100 words, maximum 6,000 words
• Nonfiction -- minimum 100 words, maximum 6,000 words
• Poetry -- maximum of 3 poems
• Scripts & Plays -- single act only (include a 1 page synopsis)
• Visual Art -- maximum 5 pieces of artwork submitted via email
• Graphic Literature -- maximum 12 pages, black and white, and containing both text and artwork submitted via email

Our ONE and only deadline: Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The Cypress Dome accepts up to TWO submissions per student: for example, 1 story and 3 poems; 2 stories; 1 script and 5 pieces of visual art, 1 graphic literature illustration and 3 poems, 10 pieces of visual art; etc. Students not submitting visual or graphic art MUST include two copies of their submission(s).

Submissions MUST have a cover page with name, address, phone number, email address, title(s) of submissions, category, and number of words/lines per submission (if applicable). The cover page must be separate and unbound from submissions—students' names should only appear on the cover page.

Submissions may be delivered to the mailbox in CNH 304H or mailed to:

The Cypress Dome
Department of English
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL 32816

Visual Art and Graphic Literature must be emailed for submission to the Cypress Dome at cdome@mail.ucf.edu with the subject line "Artwork Submission."

Submission Response

All work will be reviewed by the editors, evaluated according to artistic merit, and then accepted or denied. Responses will be emailed to the address included on the cover page by the end of February 2010. Authors selected for publication will be required to present an electronic copy of their work in Microsoft Word. Manuscripts will not be returned. The staff will not be able to respond by phone.

Awards

Awards are given for the best submissions in each category. The Cypress Dome editors will select the winning entries. A celebratory reading will be held upon the release of the magazine in late Spring 2010.

For more information please contact us at cdome@mail.ucf.edu.