Periphery 64 Fall Submissions

About this call

Periphery Journal is a student-led publication that situates itself at the intersection of traditional and emergent creative practice. Its editorial scope is intentionally broad, encompassing fiction, poetry, essays, photography, music, painting, new media, sculpture, graphic narratives, spoken word, comics, and prose poems, as well as forms that have not yet been named or recognized. This openness is balanced by a blind review process conducted by the editor-in-chief, art director, assistant art director, and editorial staff, so that selection rests on the work itself rather than on the submitter's profile. The journal's curatorial stance privileges technical accomplishment alongside distinctiveness, with an explicit interest in work that resists or redefines conventional categories. For the practitioner, this means the call is less a request for conforming material than an invitation to present a singular formal intelligence within a publication that treats genre as provisional. Submissions are accepted from undergraduate students across disciplines, and there is no fee to submit. Contributors retain their rights. Periphery does not claim ownership of published work, which preserves the artist's ability to pursue subsequent presentation or publication. Materials are bounded: literary work is accepted as a separate file of up to ten pages, with up to three literary submissions per person, and art is accepted as high-resolution images, up to five per person, each as a separate file.

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