How to Submit Your Work
Download our submission form (click here – it will download automatically), fill it out, and attach it (along with your work) to an email addressed to starkvoices@gmail.com.
We currently only accept submissions via email, but please reach out to us if this is a problem – we will do our best to accommodate your needs!
Submission Guidelines
We’re pretty flexible when it comes to submissions to Stark Voices, but we do appreciate you reviewing our preferences below, especially when it comes to image files and media. Please reach out, anyway, if you aren’t sure about or aren’t able to meet the requirements below, and we will do our best to work with you and make the submission process easier!
Writing
Written work should be submitted as a Google Doc or Word file (.doc or .docx). Please do not submit work as a .pdf file. Use either 12-point Times New Roman or 11-point Arial font, and double-space your submission (except for poetry – see below).
Essays
- Submit up to three pieces, no more than 15 pages total. References must follow 7th Ed. APA or 9th Ed. MLA format.
Fiction
- Submit up to three pieces, no more than 15 pages in total.
Poetry
- Submit up to five poems at a time, no more than 12 pages total. Use the spacing you want to see for your poem (for example, if you double-space your submission, it will be published double-spaced).
- Please note that if your poetry requires special formatting and/or font settings, we will do our best to preserve them, but may not be able to do so perfectly in the final publication due to technical limitations.
Art / Photography / Media
Art / Photography
- Submit up to 10 pieces of visual art. We can work with JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg) or PNG (.png) files, but PNG files are preferred. We are unable to accept RAW files at this time.
- Please set the resolution to at least 72 PPI (pixels per inch) – this is pretty standard, so you likely don’t need to do anything. Please do not use DPI to set the resolution, as we are not a print publication.
- Images may be of any dimensions but should be large enough for standard web publishing (at least 480 x 600 pixels).
Media
- Creative, cross-genre, and all non-written pieces are welcome!
- We will make every attempt to publish multimedia projects involving any combination of video, audio, or interactive components. If there is a technical issue, we will do our best to work with you and present your work in a form that is as close as possible to your original vision.
Standard Legal Stuff
Please do not send simultaneous submissions (in other words, don’t send something to Stark Voices if you’ve submitted it to other publications). Stark Voices cannot accept previously published work.
Stark Voices retains first electronic serial rights to publication. All rights revert to the author upon publication. Please acknowledge Stark Voices if your work is published elsewhere.
Your submission may be on any topic or deal with difficult subject matter; however, Stark Voices staff may require editing of – or reject outright – submissions contravening Stark State’s Freedom of Expression and Responsibilities guidelines (Policy No. 3357:15-13-48). Final decisions concerning suitability to publish will remain with the editorial staff of Stark Voices and/or Stark State College.
Plagiarism in any form is unacceptable. Please review Stark State College’s Digital Library page on plagiarism and Turnitin’s “Plagiarism Spectrum” guide. Any use of generative AI must be noted in your submission.
By submitting to Stark Voices, you confirm that your submission is your own work. You agree that you have secured any and all necessary permissions (when applicable) for publication of your work, whether written, visual or multimedia, prior to submitting to Stark Voices.