Understory publishes the best creative work by University
of Alaska, Anchorage undergraduate students.
You can obtain copies of the 2011 issue of Understory from our office in the English Department (Admin 101).
Submission Information
We are now accepting submissions for the 2012 issue of Understory
This year we are accepting all submissions via e-mail. Authors of prose or poetry must submit their writing as a Word (.RTF,
.DOC, .DOCX) file,
and visual artists must submit images in .JPG format.
Click Submissions here or above to read more about our entry policies and requirements.
Deadline
January 31, 2012
Contests
There are two contests this year, awarding $100 to each winner.
The Hayden Carruth Award: Awarded for the best piece
of writing submitted.
Understory Visual Arts Contest: Chosen from among the
visual arts submissions.
Submission Information
We are now accepting submissions for the 2012 issue of Understory
All submissions, be they prose, poetry, or artwork, must be sent to us electronically.
Each student may submit a maximum of 6 entries total, across all forms
(prose, poetry, visual arts), for consideration.
Your submission must include your contact information in the body of your email so that we can contact you in the event
your work is selected for the journal. Please include your first and last name and the best way to get in touch with you.
Students may submit a maximum of six submissions across formats. Please contact us (using the
uaa_understory@uaa.alaska.edu
address) with questions about substitutions should you submit six
and want to withdraw a piece from consideration in place of another.
Each submission must be in its own file. For
example, if you wish to submit three poems, please seperate
them into seperate files:
Jill Smith - This Poem.doc, Jill Smith - That Poem.doc, and Jill Smith - The Other Poem.doc
We ask for your consideration in separating your work into
different files so that each of your submissions can be given fair consideration.
A note about file names:
Please include your full name (First Name and Last Name)
and the title of your work in the
file name of your submission.
For example, a prose submission would appear as:
Jill Smith - Untitled Story.doc
While a visual arts picture should appear as:
Joe Smith - Picture.jpg
Format Guidelines
Prose: Maximum of 10 double-spaced pages in a 12 point
Times New Roman font. Black text on a white background.
Poetry: As with prose, we expect black
text on a white background in a 12 point Times New Roman font.
We will attempt to preserve the textual format of your poetry as long
as it fits within the dimensions of our journal.
Visual Arts: Send a high-quality
digital image of your submission, no larger than 1680 x 1050
pixels in dimension, as a .JPG file. In your
submission e-mail, please include the work's details: size, medium, and title
of the piece.
Accepted File Formats
Prose and Poetry: A Microsoft Office Word compatible file (.RTF, .DOC, .DOCX).
Artwork: An image in .JPG format. Please, no bitmaps (.BMP).
