The Meadow: TMCC's Literary and Arts Journal

Submit Literary or Art Work

We accept only e-mail submissions. Submit your work as described below to meadow@tmcc.edu between Labor Day and Valentine's Day.

• Sponsored Cash Prizes
• Literary and Artistic Quality
• Ways to Submit Your Work to The Meadow

Sponsored Cash Prizes

In past issues, the Student Government Association of TMCC has sponsored cash prizes for the winners of the Meadow literary, art and design contests. Through a blind submission process, the editorial board chooses finalists in four categories: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art/photography and cover design. An independent committee selects the first-place winners from among the student body.

Literary and Artistic Quality is Our Main Concern

We welcome submissions of poetry, fiction, screenplay, nonfiction, artwork, graphic design, comics and photography, preferably high-contrast artwork that will reproduce well in print. We prefer all submissions to come via e-mail attachment (in .doc or .jpg format). Exception: cover design contest entrants please send a PDF.

All submissions in all categories must be accompanied by contact information (name, address, telephone, e-mail) and a brief (less than 35 words) biography. Do not include the author's or artist's name on the work itself. Put this information in a separate cover letter or email text. We will not consider previously published work, but we will consider simultaneous submissions and expect to be notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere.

We will accept up to (6) poems, photos or art pieces or (2) works of prose from each author or artist. We prefer that prose works not exceed 3,000 words. In rare instances, we will consider longer works.

Note: We cannot accept original artwork of any kind. Please scan the larger pieces, then send the file via e-mail attachments. We prefer high-quality digital photos and art reproductions, 300 dpi preferred, files no larger than 5 MB.

Two Ways to Submit Your Work to The Meadow

1. The Meadow only accepts e-mail submissions. E-mail your work as a .doc (or .jpg or PDF) attachment to meadow@tmcc.edu. The text of your e-mail message must include the brief bio and contact information (name, title, telephone, address and e-mail).
2. For poetry, you may send your submissions via e-mail. This involves a cut and paste operation (use ctrl-A to select all text, ctrl-C to copy it and ctrl-V to paste it into the submission field below). Due to formatting errors that may arise from the use of this text field, we strongly recommend that all prose submissions (i.e., fiction and nonfiction) come to us via an e-mail attachment.

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