Tidal Echoes 2008 Submission Guidelines
Tidal Echoes wants your poems, stories, essays, plays, and artwork!

Submission Deadline: January 10, 2008

Eligibility: All full-time residents of Southeast Alaska are eligible to enter. If your work is previously published and you retain rights, we’ll be happy to consider it for a second publication. UAS students (full or part time) are particularly encouraged to apply; a portion of the journal will be reserved for UAS students. Southeast Alaska Native artists and writers are encouraged to submit their work.

Work Guidelines: You may submit work in more than one genre.  Please include your address on each page of the submission.  If you are a UAS student please include your UAS Student ID# on each page. 

Poetry: Limit 5 poems (5 pages total).

Prose: Limit 15 pages double-spaced. We welcome fiction, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, transcribed oral stories, and short plays.  You are welcome to send us cohesive partial pieces such as one scene from a play or story. 

Artwork: Limit 5 pieces. All art forms are welcome (pottery, printmaking, sculpture, painting, photography, drawing, beadwork, carving, basketry, etc.) All work must be submitted in a digital format (preferably as a .tif or .jpg) via disk or email.  Resources are available on the UAS Juneau campus for scanning art or photographing three-dimensional art. Contact Alice Tersteeg ( alice.tersteeg@uas.alaska.edu) at 796-6503 with questions or for help. 

Cover Letter:  Submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter that includes your contact information (name, address, phone number, and email address), your UAS Student ID if you are a student, the title of each submission, and a short bio (3-5 sentences). If your work has been previously published, and you retain first time rights, include information about the first publication.

Submitting – We prefer electronic submission via email.  Please include your work as an attachment.  Electronic copies must be formatted in Microsoft Word.  You may also type the work directly into the body of the email.  If you do not have access to email, you may drop off or mail paper copies to the address below: 

Email submission to: tidalechoes@uas.alaska.edu

Mail/Drop off submission to:
Tidal Echoes c/o Virginia Berg
UAS Humanities Department
Soboleff Building
11120 Glacier Highway
Juneau, AK 99801

 

Tidal Echoes Website: http://www.uas.alaska.edu/humanities/tidalechoes/index.html

Questions: Contact Emily Wall ( emily.wall@uas.alaska.edu) or call 796-6113