Submissions

Submissions for the Fall 2025 Issue of The Greenspring Review are now closed! Thank you to everyone who submitted their work! Submissions will open again in the spring.

Please see below for our Guidelines and Submissions Form so you too can become a published author or artist!

Before submitting please be sure to review both our Guidelines and A Few Things to Remember below.

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A few things to remember...

We only accept submissions from current Stevenson University students! Please complete your submission with your Stevenson email address, otherwise it will be deprioritized and possibly overlooked!

The file name must be some combination of your name and the title of the piece. If you do not adhere to these requirements, your work may not be properly allocated to your submission and cannot be properly accepted until it does meet said requirements.

Submit file as: “Author Name_Title_Genre.docx”

All submissions must be your original work, no exceptions. If you are not the sole author/creator of a piece of work, list the additional co-authors/co-creators. These co-collaborators may be non-Stevenson students as long as you, the submitter, are.

The Greenspring Review will without hesitation or remorse instantly reject any and all content that has been created partially or totally by any generative AI program such as ChatGPT or Midjourney. (We will be able to tell. It is not that difficult.) While these programs have their uses, they never can and never will replace the heart and soul that a human being creates art with.

Work published previously on a student’s blog or personal website is allowed.

You may submit more than one work in more than one genre, just make it a separate submission. For each issue, we will select a piece from each section—Prose, Poetry, Media—to feature both in the magazine and during the release party.

Send all questions to greenspringreview@gmail.com.

After you submit your work(s), we will email you to inform you whether your submission(s) was/were accepted or rejected. While we may receive many fine works, not all submissions can be accepted to the GSR.

Editing is a relationship, so GSR will not change the work without the author’s/creator’s approval.

We are willing to review work that has been rejected for a past issue, but only if it has undergone major revision.

Creator’s Rights Statement: By submitting work to Greenspring Review, creators give Greenspring Review’s publication non exclusive rights to edit the creator’s work, publish the creator’s work for current or future issues, archive the creator’s work, and include it in marketing material.

Prose
- Short Stories
- Short scripts/screenplays
- Creative Nonfiction
  - Memoirs/Personal Essays
  - Reviews/Opinion Editorials (These pieces must incorporate a story or put the pop culture item/subject in conversation with the author’s experience. See “The Dun Dun is Not Done” for an example of what we’re looking for.)
- Requirements for a Complete Prose Submission
  - 500-2500 words (1-5 pages)
  - Must be submitted on a Word Document
  - Times New Roman 12pt font
  - Single-spaced
  - Title of the piece
  - First and Last name of the Author(s)
  - Include in the submission a free or Creative Commons featured image (or one will be assigned by the Media Section Editor) and tags (used to describe your work: genres, themes, keywords, etc.) to accompany your piece
    - Multimedia throughout the prose is allowed (i.e. an image, video, song, original illustration, etc.)

Poetry
- Poems
- Spoken Word (written poem with a video or voice recording of you performing it)
- Requirements for a Complete Poetry Submission
  - 1-3 pages (Double column pages are considered two pages.)
  - Must be submitted on a Word Document
  - Times New Roman 12pt font
  - Title of the piece
  - First and Last name of the Author(s)
  - Include in the submission a free or Creative Commons featured image (or one will be assigned by the Media Section Editor) and tags (used to describe your work: genres, themes, keywords, etc.) to accompany your piece
    - Multimedia throughout the poetry is allowed (i.e. an image, video, song, original illustration, etc.)

Experimental Forms
- Pieces that are fiction, essay, or poetry but which take the structure of something else, such as a recipe, help form, test, search history, etc.
- Pieces that are interactive, such as but not limited to visual novels, choose your own adventure, or Google Map stories, etc.
- Pieces that require special formatting needs, such as routine shifts in fonts, alignment, spacing, etc.
- Requirements for a Complete Experimental Submission
  - Length will be determined by the form it is most closest to (Poetry or Prose)
  - Title of the piece
  - First and Last name of the Author(s)
  - If the submission form cannot accept the file type, please use the "add a link" option to add a link to the shared file or viewing site
  - Include an optional artist’s statement to accompany your piece.

Media
- Artwork (illustrations/drawings; collages; pictures of paintings, sculptures, or fashion designs)
- Photography
- Fashion Designs
- Short Films/Skits (5 minutes or less)
- Songs (lyric video with voiceover song, voice recording of song, video of you performing the song)
  - include lyrics (following Prose guidelines) with whatever media you decide in you submission
- Requirements for a Complete Media Submission
  - Title of the piece
  - First and Last name of the Artists(s)
  - Include in the submission tags (used to describe your work: genres, themes, keywords, etc.) and an optional artist’s statement to accompany your piece.

Guidelines

Creator’s Rights Statement:

By submitting work to Greenspring Review, creators give Greenspring Review’s publication nonexclusive rights to edit the creator’s work, publish the creator’s work for current or future issues, archive the creator’s work, and include it in marketing material.

Submissions Form

Please complete this form to submit to The Greenspring Review!