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.

 
 

What we are looking for:

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

  • English & Foreign Languages

  • Literature

  • Art and Design History, Music History, Theater History, and Film Studies

  • History and Classics

  • Philosophy & Religion

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

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

Your submission should …

  • 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

    • Name of course for which the project was completed

    • Major and University/College

    • Graduation date

    • Email

    • Phone number

*If your project exceeds our 6000- 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 suggestions.

Your name should not appear anywhere else in the document, including the file name.

 

Deadline for submissions for Issue XXI (Fall 2025) is September 1, 2025.

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Recommendations for Submitting

(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 so that a general audience may easily follow your argument

  • Frame your argument so that it is accessible and interesting

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

 

Submissions FAQ

Who can submit to Apollon?

 

Any undergraduate student whose research project 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 produced for seminars and upper-level courses.

What length of submissions are you looking for?

Feature articles/essays/projects of 2000-6000 words

Digital projects that present an original argument but don’t have traditional word count.

Current theater, film, art, music 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 or aesthetic analysis, theoretical or cultural critique, or philosophical inquiry.

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 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 “blind” by one or more of Apollon's editors. If accepted, the piece is sent to an undergraduate reviewer. Editors may make a request for revisions 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 submission 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 project can benefit from some revision). (Click here for our Reviewer Guidelines.)

 

Can I work with a reviewer on revisions?

 

Once a project is accepted, reviewers will read further drafts and work with writers on revisions. We encourage writers and reviewers to continue their conversations.