Submission Guidelines

Mangrove accepts work from undergraduate students during our reading periods in the fall and spring semesters. This fall's reading period is from September 15, 2011 to December 15, 2011. To submit work to Mangrove, please e-mail your work to mangrovejournal@gmail.com

All work submitted to the journal must have a cover page that includes the author's full name, e-mail address, major, projected year of graduation, and college or university where the author is currently enrolled. Submissions should be sent attached as a MS word document. Submissions should be in 12-pt. Times New Roman font, should use complete tab indentions, and should have single spaces between sentences. Fiction and nonfiction should be double-spaced. Additionally, the filename should be the same as the author's last name.

Genre Specific Guidelines -

Fiction -

Fiction submissions should be no longer than 2500 words. We accept short fiction peices, and are also interested in including micro and flash fiction in the journal.

Poetry -

Poetry submissions should be no longer than two pages single spaced, or approximately 90 lines.

Non-Fiction -

Mangrove considers nonfiction essays, memoirs, book reviews and criticism, interviews, and travel writing for publication. We also welcome original translations provided you have permission from the author. Submissions should not be academic or journalistic, but should have a creative spirit. There are generally no other restrictions of style or topic, except that submissions should be intellectually stimulating and of excellent quality. Essays, memoirs, criticism, translations and travel writing should be no more than 2500 words, though many submissions will be considerably less. Book reviews should be no more than 500 words.

Additional guidelines:

• Book reviews and criticism relevant to the University of Miami (for instance on books written by UM alumni) are encouraged, though not required.
• Book reviews and criticism should be written on recent publications.
• Travel writing should include a narrative voice, or an otherwise creative angle.
• Interviewees should be affiliated with the arts—writing, film, art, etc.—and interviews should have a coherent, captivating purpose. Again, interviews relevant to the University of Miami are encouraged.
• Mangrove considers excerpts from book-length nonfiction provided they are self-contained.

Artwork -

We will consider drawings, painting, mixed media, graphic design, and photographs for the journal. Artwork submissions must be no greater than 2 megabytes in size, and must be scanned or shot at at least 300 dpi in either .jpg, .png, or .gif formats.

• Art submissions should be shot against a blank surface of a neutral color
• Submissions should be shot from a directly frontal angle, with appropriate orientation
• Images should be well lit with no shadows or dark corners (note: the flash on a camera will not be sufficient)
• Please do not leave any visible thumbtacks or other mounting materials
• Only shoot one painting or image per submission
  

Mangrove will accept a maximum of three artwork submissions at a time.

Please submit only one piece per e-mail. Authors may submit up to three creative works (in one genre or a combination of genres) for consideration at one time.

There are no theme restrictions, but all work must be original, unpublished, and of high literary and artistic value. Your work will be reviewed by a panel of readers. If your work is accepted, you will receive notification of your work's inclusion in Mangrove.

If you are still unsure as to what kind of submissions we're interested in, please see our past editions.

Please note that we will not be able to consider work that does not conform to these guidelines.

By submitting work, you as the artist implicitly agree to allow Mangrove to publish, edit, or otherwise alter the content of the submission without notice at the editorial board's discretion to best suit the needs of the journal.