Journals
Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts
Edited by Professor renée hoogland of the English Department and published by Wayne State University Press, this journal provides a forum for current scholarship on literature, media, music and visual culture. A place for rigorous theoretical and critical debate as well as formal and methodological self-reflexivity and experimentation, Criticism aims to present contemporary thought at its most vital.
Rushton Journal of Undergraduate Humanities Research
The Rushton Journal of Undergraduate Humanities Research is an annual interdisciplinary journal that publishes outstanding undergraduate scholarship. Edited by Wayne State students, the journal aims to build an intellectual community and to enhance the undergraduate experience at Wayne State.
Courtesy of the WSU Humanities Center, a Best Essay Prize ($250) will be awarded to the best essay published in each issue of the paper. We welcome scholarly work from WSU undergraduates in the humanities and related fields, such as African American Studies, anthropology, art history, communication, English, foreign languages, history and philosophy.
The Wayne Literary Review
The Wayne Literary Review is committed to showcasing work by authors from a wide variety of backgrounds and literary preferences. We're interested in language that feels surprising and urgent, in stories and poems and narratives that are as diverse and messy and complicated and wondrous as the people and places in the world that we live in and beyond. Boundary-challenging work in form and theme, be it magical realism, slipstream, fantasy, science-fiction, noir, absurdist or any combinations thereof, are especially welcome.
We are particularly interested in work that challenges, grapples with, intersects, encourages, eludes, produces and manifests the ideas of prophecy, protest and prayer, however those three ideas may (or may not) show up in your work.
We are looking to include poems, stories, novel excerpts, short plays, creative non-fiction and black and white photographs or pen and ink sketches.
Guidelines
- Prose (includes creative nonfiction, essay, novel excerpt): only one completed story, drama or creative nonfiction essay at a time, with a word limit of 3500 words. We also welcome flash fiction up to 1000 words.
- Drama: One-act plays or excerpts no longer than 3500 words. Please limit yourself to one submission.
- Poetry: Please submit no more than three poems at a time. Each poem should be on its own page and have a clearly marked title.
- Visual art: Please limit yourself to no more than three photographs/images. Be sure to include the highest quality you can in .jpg, or .png only. We are particularly interested in work that features the Detroit Metro Area.
- All submissions must be double-spaced, Times New Roman 12pt. font, using 1-inch margins, .doc or .docx only. Or follow the Proper Manuscript Format.
- We only accept electronic submissions.
Submit your work to the Wayne Literary Review
The Woodward Review: A Creative & Critical Journal
This journal aims to highlight the collision between creative work and critical engagement as two codependent modes of responding to and moving through the world. Conceived as a magazine of arts and letters to and through Detroit, we seek to publish poetry, prose, art and criticism that reflect the evolving calls and responses we believe define the artistic histories and sensibilities of the city.