Submit Your Work

Voices & Visions considers written and visual submissions from students and alumnae who attend(ed) historically women’s colleges, and universities around the world. Bi-annual publications are grounded in determined themes that illuminate the varying modes of interpretation expressed by featured authors and artists.

Submissions are currently OPEN.

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Submission Guidelines

Voices & Visions publishes work in a range of formats, including prose, poetry, photography, visual arts, video, and audio files/music. V&V will not knowingly publish submissions that are slanderous, libelous, racist, sexist, ageist, or otherwise intentionally discriminatory or offensive. All works must be original and must not be subject to copyright restrictions. For each issue, the journal publishes one submission per selected student. After its final review, our Editorial Staff will notify each submitter of the status of their work.

All submissions should be sent in digital format via our submissions form. Email submissions will not be considered.  Text submissions should submitted in .dox or pdf file format. If you are submitting a poem that has nonconventional visual formatting please submit a pdf. Photographs, paintings, drawings, illustrations, or other visual artwork should be submitted in a format that can be opened and manipulated in Photoshop CS5 (JPG, PNG, TIF, BMP, and GIF). Submitted images should not include vectors or layers. Videos must be uploaded to YouTube and submitted as a URL. Audio files must be compatible with  iTunes, Google Music, or other online audio services.

Editorial Policy

Voices and Visions submissions are reviewed by student editors at Smith College. V&V reserves the right to edit all submissions for accuracy and consistency. Each submission is edited according to the spelling, grammar, and punctuation conventions of the version of English used for academically edited text at the member institution of the student who submits it. In its editing, V&V prioritizes the preservation of each student’s unique voice and artistic intent over absolute grammatical or idiomatic correctness. A style sheet containing more details about the V&V editing policies is available upon request.