Scribendi — Foreign Language

Overview
Scribendi, the national literary journal of the University of New Mexico's Honors College, has long served as a rigorous venue for undergraduate creative writing. Its foreign-language category extends that mandate beyond the Anglophone sphere, asking writers to present work in its original linguistic context while making it legible to an English-reading jury and readership. The call is open across literary categories, and the journal imposes no submission fee. The journal's blind jury process is central to its editorial ethic. Submissions are evaluated without knowledge of the author's identity; names must appear only in the designated application field, never on the manuscript or title. This structure is designed to foreground the work itself—its craft, its voice, its translation—rather than the reputation or affiliation of its maker. For writers working in languages other than English, the requirement of an accompanying English translation is not an afterthought but a constitutive part of the submission: the translation must be included in the same file as the original, with proper acknowledgement of the translator where applicable. What the journal offers is publication within a university-affiliated literary review with a national presence, alongside the scrutiny of a jury that reads blind. The curatorial vision is one of linguistic plurality held to a single standard of literary seriousness: work that sustains attention in its original language and in translation alike. Scribendi limits foreign-language submissions to three titled pieces; untitled works are not considered. There is no entry fee, and the deadline is exact: October 11, 2026.