Submit your original prose, poetry, visual art, and media! Deadline: 11:59pm on 12.31.19

Yours Truly is the annual creative arts magazine of Cascadia College, which showcases the original visual art, prose, poetry, and media of our students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members. Yours Truly supports the imagination and originality of community voices and visions rarely represented in other campus spaces, promotes the creation of diverse literary and visual art, and celebrates creativity in all forms.

We are committed to diversity and inclusivity and highly encourage submissions from marginalized voices. We will not consider work with sexist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, or ableist content.

Be part of our award-winning publication! Yours Truly 2016 tied for second place in the Pacific-Western division of the national Community College Humanities Association (CCHA) literary magazine competition. Yours Truly 2017 won a third place spot in the national CCHA competition as well. 

GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES (2019-2020):

The submission period for Yours Truly is now open and the deadline is December 31, 2019 by 11:59pm. To learn more about Yours Truly and to view past issues, please visit our website here. Please send us your very best work, making sure to polish, edit, and proofread before you submit.

You may submit up to six (6) pieces in each category. To help prevent bias, Yours Truly has an anonymous selection process, so please refrain from putting your name on the file(s) you upload to Submittable. Please upload each submission as a separate file and label your file(s) by title only (i.e. Summer.docx). Once submissions are selected for publication, the contributor’s name will be revealed to the staff and additional information may be requested. When we publish, your name will be printed along with your work.

We accept unpublished, well-crafted, and diverse creative works to be considered for publication in our June 2020 issue:

• Poetry: Any poetic form, including prose poetry. Limited to six (6) poems and each poem should not exceed two-pages in length. Accepted file formats for poetry: doc and docx.
• Prose: Short stories, flash/micro fiction, personal essays, memoir excerpts, and flash nonfiction less than 1500 words; we do not accept academic essays, journalism, op-ed pieces, fan fiction, or erotica. Limited to six (6) pieces and each prose piece should not exceed 1500 words. Please 1.5 or double-space and leave 1” margins. Accepted file formats for prose: doc and docx.
• Visual art: Handcrafted art like painting, drawing, collage, encaustic, sculpture, ceramics, metalwork, woodwork, printing, textiles, and mixed media, etc. Digital works like photography; digital paintings, drawings, and collages; and photo painting, etc. Limited to six (6) pieces and the resolution for each art submission should be a minimum 300 dpi or 1200 pixels (4″) wide. We prefer larger files. For SmartPhone camera photography, use the highest resolution setting. Acceptable image file formats: jpg/jpeg and png.
• Media: Audio (original music, spoken word, soundscapes, monologues, audio essays, etc.) or video (animation, original music / music videos, spoken word, visual essays, short films, etc.) Limited to six (6) media pieces for our magazine’s online edition.  Media works should be no longer than 8 minutes each.  File formats acceptable for audio: MP3. File formats acceptable for video: MP4.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know ASAP once your work has been accepted elsewhere. 

Once you submit your work, you will receive a confirmation email indicating our receipt of your submission. Expect to hear about your submission status by mid-March 2020. Yours Truly will be released in print and online at our launch event on Thursday, June 4th at Mobius Gallery at Cascadia.

For questions about our submission process, please email yourstruly@cascadia.edu.