Submission Guidelines: Volume 11
We warmly welcome submissions to the 11th issue of St Anne’s Academic Review.
Submissions are open to all Members of St Anne’s College and fall under three categories:
academic articles, creative writing and Spark Reviews.
Please read carefully our Submission Guidelines for information on each category. The deadline for academic abstracts has now passed, but submissions for creative writing and Spark Reviews to the 11th issue are still being accepted on a rolling basis. Entries for the latter received after 21st June 2021 will be considered for publication in the next volume.
To make a submission, please email the relevant editor or submit your abstract using the form at the bottom of this page.
We warmly welcome submissions to the 11th issue of St Anne’s Academic Review.
Submissions are open to all Members of St Anne’s College and fall under three categories:
academic articles, creative writing and Spark Reviews.
Please read carefully our Submission Guidelines for information on each category. The deadline for academic abstracts has now passed, but submissions for creative writing and Spark Reviews to the 11th issue are still being accepted on a rolling basis. Entries for the latter received after 21st June 2021 will be considered for publication in the next volume.
To make a submission, please email the relevant editor or submit your abstract using the form at the bottom of this page.
Academic
STAAR publishes peer-reviewed articles of up to 5,000 words.
We will accept submissions for:
- Research articles containing original results or findings from your research (e.g. Lopez da Silveira, 2018)
- Subject Review articles reviewing your subject area and are unbiased (e.g. Meachon, 2017)
- Opinion pieces containing your personal reflections on a particular issue or item of news (e.g. Hicks, 2016)
If you have an idea for an academic article of around this length, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words to Editor-in-Chief, Ye-Ye Xu at [email protected].
Where possible, please specify whether your intended topic pertains to the physical sciences, the social sciences, or the humanities.
Referencing and style guides as follows:
- Humanities – MLA (Author-Date)
- Sciences – IEEE
- Social Sciences- APA
Successful articles will be published online with a select number chosen for print. Authors will also be invited for interview on STAMP - St Anne's MCR Podcast.
Criteria for publication
- The work is the author’s own.
- The article has not been published elsewhere. Occasional exceptions can be made for opinion pieces, upon permission from the copyright holder and with due acknowledgement of the original publisher.
- All research has been conducted to a high standard.
- The article is written in standard English and is easily readable to those outside of the field of study.
Creative Writing
STAAR publishes short stories, poems, and creative essays by St Anne’s students and alumni. You may submit for consideration one of either:
- Poetry: up to three poems of 50 lines’ max apiece; in the case of prose poems 500 words max. apiece; or
- Fiction: one short story OR one creative essay, not exceeding 3,000 words
Submissions of creative writing in languages other than English are welcome so long as the piece is accompanied by an English translation written by the author, or by someone who has provided permission for their work to be published in STAAR.
Original English translations of poetry or short fiction that are out of copyright, or for which the author has given permission to be published, are also welcome. You must explicitly cite the work to be translated in your submission email. The aforementioned word count and line restrictions will also apply to translations and submissions in other languages.
Reprints of poetry, short fiction, or creative essays are welcome. If you submit reprints, please let us know where the relevant pieces had been published originally, which could be an anthology, a magazine, or an informal venue such as a personal blog.
Creative writing submissions are accepted on a rolling basis and should be emailed to the Humanities Editors, Trisevgeni Bilia ([email protected]) and Erin Dolan ([email protected]). The final deadline in 2021 is Monday 21 June; submissions received after this date will be moved forward into next year's cycle.
Spark Reviews
We welcome critical reviews of 1,500 to 3,000-words on any artistic production St Anne's students and alumni find personally and/or culturally significant. Works reviewed can be books, poems, plays, films, video games, or other forms of creative expression, and the stance taken by reviewers on the pieces examined may be favourable, unfavourable, or fall somewhere in between.
The purpose of Spark Reviews is to showcase writers' individual writing styles and analytical skills. Reviewers are encouraged to write for a general audience, and to take a slightly less formal approach to their subject than what is usually required of peer-reviewed academic articles. You may also choose to compare texts or a selection of pieces, structuring your review in a style which suits you best.
Proposals for Spark Reviews can be submitted anytime throughout the year to Spark Reviews Editor, Brittany Hause at [email protected]. Individual submissions must not exceed two sentences and must give a clear indication of the themes and work(s) that the author would like to write about. Writers may submit more than one proposal.
Spark Reviews for the 11th Issue of STAAR will follow APA citation guidelines. Deadlines for drafts do not run concurrently with the other sections of STAAR but are normally set for one month after the topic has been confirmed. The final deadline for Spark Review proposals in 2021 is Monday 21 June. Spark Review proposals submitted after this date will be moved forward into next year's cycle.
Once edited, Spark Reviews will be published on our website with a small selection published in print. Published reviews will be automatically entered into the journal’s annual Firework Competition for the chance to win a small cash prize at the end of the academic year. Last year’s winner was Andreea Scridon for her review on A Socially-Distanced Romeo and Juliet at Sadler’s Wells.