Submission Guidelines

Please submit this form by Sunday October 13th 2024 11:59 PM.

Note that an extension of one week has been issued. Sunday October 13th is now the deadline. You may safely disregard any other date you come across.

Theme

The theme for the Autumn 2024 issue of Caveat Lector is TIME.

Feel free to interpret this in any way you want. Your submission does not need to be centred around the concept of time, but we do ask that it be one of the themes in your work. This will increase the chances that your submissions are accepted, because it will help us put together a more cohesive issue with a strong underlying motif.

Sticking to the theme is less important for artwork and photography submissions, because they are somewhat more open to interpretation than written work. With that said, we would still love to see creative and interesting ways of incorporating the theme into your pieces.

What do we accept?

IMPORTANT: Caveat Lector reviews all submissions anonymously. Please remove all identifying information like your name or email from your files before uploading them.

Caveat Lector accepts

• Prose,
• Poetry,
• Artwork, and
• Photography.

You can submit to as many or as few of these categories as you wish.

For written work, please format your pieces in 12pt Times New Roman with 1.5 line spacing. If your work deals with sensitive subjects, we request that you prominently include trigger/content warnings at the top of your document for the benefit of the editorial team.

Prose

You are allowed to submit one piece of prose not exceeding 2000 words in length.

Poetry

You are allowed to submit up to three poems of at most 60 lines each.

For visual submissions, please ensure your images are less than 10MB in size. If your submission(s) are selected, we will ask you for a higher quality version. Please note that explicit/NSFW imagery is strictly not allowed if it is the central focus of your work.

Artwork

You are allowed to submit up to five pieces of artwork.

Photography

You are allowed to submit up to five photographs.

If you have any further queries, please contact us at caveatlector@ucdlitsoc.com.