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: Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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 301 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 2008. 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 2008.
For more information
please contact us at cdome@mail.ucf.edu.
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