Northwest Passage

Submission Guidelines

  1. Every submission should have a title* and be submitted in the Google Form for that term’s magazine. 
  2. All WOU students, faculty, and alumni over the age of 18 are invited to submit their work.
  3. Please leave your name off of your submissions (ex: names in documents or on art pieces), as this will assist us during the voting process. Your name can be included in the name of the image/document, but it will be removed in the version that the Editorial Board can see.
  4. We accept: short stories, creative essays, poetry, scripts/screenplays, lyrics, photography, art of any medium, and any other form of visual art medium.
  5. Submissions must not exceed 5 pieces of work per term, but additional submitted work may be considered for future issues.
  6. Art must be in digital format; please take high-quality photos (300 PPI) of artwork for the best printing result. The Editor-in-Chief may ask for better pictures if needed. We want your piece to look good in print!
  7. Due to space constraints, all written work has a word limit of 1,500 words and should be submitted as a PDF or DOC.
  8. Submissions are accepted all year. However, submissions must meet the deadline to be considered for the current issue.
  9. The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to edit submissions, but will not publish the edited version without the creator’s permission. 

*Please give a title to any files you submit. Pieces will be named Untitled if no title is given

 

For Accepted Contributors

  1. Once Editorial Board voting has finished, all applicants will receive an email detailing which submissions are accepted and which were denied. The email will include some questions that should be answered so the Editor-in-Chief has the information they need for crediting your work. 
  2. Accepted creators may fill out their own artist’s statement, which will be included at the end of the magazine. This may be about the artists’ background in their medium or the background of the piece that they have submitted. 
  3. Submissions may be accepted under a pseudonym or featured as a work by “anonymous” if specified by the contributor. If you would like to have a pseudonym or remain anonymous, please let the Editor-in-Chief know over email after receiving your email about what pieces were accepted.

Copyright Statement

By submitting this [title of piece] to the Northwest Passage, you hereby grant Western Oregon University (“WOU”) a worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free right to reproduce and distribute Your Material in any format or medium for non-commercial, academic purposes only. You retain all ownership rights to [title of piece] and do not give up the right to submit the work to publishers or others. WOU will clearly identify your name(s) as the author(s) or owner(s) of [title of piece].
 
You represent and warrant that:
i. [title of piece] does not infringe or violate someone else’s rights or otherwise violate the law, and
ii. you have the authority to grant WOU all of the rights under the license.