Submissions Guidelines

 
 

Thank you for your interest in submitting work to Apollon!

We are an undergraduate digital journal in the humanities focused on producing annual issues of excellent, peer reviewed work from participating colleges and universities across a range of disciplines and embracing the array of intellectual approaches valued by humanistic inquiry.

 
 

Your paper should be…

  • 2000-6000 words* (Book, film, and theater reviews should be 1000-1500 words and must offer insightful analysis on the technical aspects of prose, film-making, or theater design used in the production. Theater reviews should focus on professional theater, not student theater, and book reviews should pertain to one or more scholarly monographs, not collections, fiction, or poetry.)

  • Use Chicago style formatting for citations, notes and references (please keep expository notes to a minimum) 

  • Include a first-page cover page that includes

    • Your name

    • Institution

    • Major 

    • Graduation date

    • Email

    • Phone number

    • A brief biography (200 words or less)

*If your paper exceeds our word limit but fits the topic and citation requirements for Apollon, please contact us via this FORM and discuss the matter with us. Our staff is likely to have revision suggestionsYour name should not appear anywhere else in the document.

You should also include a running header that indicates page number and an abbreviated essay title so that we can easily track your work. No other complex formatting should be included.

What we are looking for:

Apollon accepts essays/articles developed from graded work written for a course or independent study related to (but not limited to)

  • English & Foreign Languages

  • Literature

  • Music and Theater

  • History, Classics, and Art History,

  • Design

  • Philosophy & Religion

  • Peace and Social Justice Studies, Women's Studies, and Regional Studies

  • Qualitative and theoretical work in Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology, etc.

 

Submissions have already been decided for Issue XIII. Authors currently submitting to Apollon can expect to hear from an editor in mid-February, 2022. 

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Submissions FAQ

Who can submit an essay to Apollon?

 

Any undergraduate student whose essay was produced for coursework in the humanities, and which can be understood as research in its own discipline. We are particularly interested in the work of humanities majors, or essays produced for seminars and upper-level courses.

What length of submissions are you looking for?

Feature articles/essays of 2000-6000 words

Theater, film, and book review articles of roughly 1500 words

What range of submissions are you looking for?

We seek undergraduate research in the humanities, broadly construed. Your research might include historical analysis, theoretical critique, philosophical inquiry, or creative research in theater, music, environmental studies, or architecture.

It must be a piece of research you submitted as part of your coursework for a grade, and it should be have already been revised according to Apollon’s citation criteria listed above.

What do I have to know about copyright, fair use, and other questions of rights?

Authors are responsible for obtaining the copyright permissions for all materials they submit. Apollon will refuse to print any pieces that do not comply with fair use laws. We cannot help you to obtain rights to images, footage, or audio tracks. Apollon will, however, ensure that authors maintain the rights over their intellectual property, and we exercise no control or restriction whatsoever over your future use of your intellectual work.

What happens once an essay is submitted to Apollon?

 

Apollon reviews submissions on a semester basis and decisions are made in mid-October and mid-March. When an essay arrives, it is read by one or more of Apollon's editors. If accepted, the piece is sent to an undergraduate reviewer. Editors may occasionally make a request for revisions before sending an essay out to a reviewer if they find it promising but in need of more development.

Who reviews the essays?

 

We maintain a peer-reader policy, sending potential articles to undergraduate reviewers who are interested in compatible areas of the humanities, and whose training makes them appropriate readers of your work. 

What does a reviewer do?

We ask our reviewers to do two things: 1) tell us if they believe a feature or review article is publishable, and 2) if they do believe it publishable, offer questions or suggestions to the author to help in the revision process (and it is the case that almost every article can benefit from some revision). We encourage reviewers to respond within two weeks as we do not want to keep authors waiting. (Click here for our Reviewer Guidelines.)

 Can I work with a reviewer on revisions?

 

Many of our reviewers are willing to read further drafts and even work with writers if you are willing to take suggestions for revision. While we don't encourage reviewers to feel that they have to actively help with revising by entering into the composing process, we do encourage writers and reviewers to continue their conversations.

Tips for Revising

(2) Make sure your readers understand what is fantastic about this work by conveying its sense of originality and energy clearly from the opening paragraph through to the conclusion.

(3) We reserve the right to review your instructor's comments on your work in order to ensure that your work

  • reflects on and incorporates the feedback available to you prior to submission

  • has been vetted as original work (i.e., to prevent plagiarism)

  • represents your school's high academic standards

(1) Your work should be further revised after its life in the classroom in order to ensure that it speaks to an educated reader who may not have been present in your particular class. 

  • Talk with the professor for whom you wrote it to discuss how to sharpen your argument

  • Expand sections that require further development

  • Cut repetitions or digressions

  • Refine the structure of your paper so that a general audience may easily follow your prose. 

  • Frame your argument so that it is accessible and interesting.