UCLA Art Student and Alumni Opportunities

Neon Door is a new immersive literary space. We are currently accepting submissions for our inaugural exhibit Emotional Nudity, which debuts in Fall-Winter 2021.

Please send works in the following categories:
Prose (fiction or nonfiction): up to 7,000 words
Poetry: up to 5 poems
Music: up to 1 album, around 15 tracks

Visual arts/Graphic shorts: up to 10 images

Video: up to 5 minutes long

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InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture

Call for Papers

Issue 34: “InVisible Memes for Cultural Teens”

Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu by July 16, 2021. Inquiries should be sent to the same address.

Creative/Artistic Works

In addition to written materials, InVisible Culture is accepting works in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the theme as it is outlined above. Please submit creative or artistic works along with an artist statement of no more than two pages to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu. For questions or more details concerning acceptable formats, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact the same address.

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Calling all creative international students, scholars, and staff! Submit your art and writing to Dashew Center’s online magazine Envelope!

We are looking for creative work relating to themes of Together and Apart and Identity and Belonging. These themes are open to your interpretation!

We hope to publish this next volume of work by end of Spring Quarter 2021. We hope to feature this as a digital gallery webpage on Dashew Center’s website. See our most recent magazine here: https://www.internationalcenter.ucla.edu/programs-events/in-house-program

Anyone who identifies with the UCLA International community (students, staff, scholars — in the U.S. or studying from your home country) is welcome to submit. Each person can submit up to 3 entries. Creative Writing can include original fiction, non-fiction, poetry, humor, etc (3000 word limit). Any language with translation. Visual Art can include photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, illustration, cartoons, etc.

Fill out this form: tinyurl.com/Envelope2021

Deadline: 3/26/21

I am writing on behalf of the Asterisk* Journal of Art, which is an art history and art publication started by students at Yale University last year. We manage one of the few peer-reviewed, intercollegiate, art history and art publications at the undergraduate level. You can access our previous two issues online: https://www.asteriskjournal.org.

We are seeking high-quality essays that subvert traditional narratives in art and artworks that will offer new perspectives, and would be obliged if you could share the following opportunity with undergraduates in your department. These works can be a version or part of a course research paper/project, independent study, or honors thesis.

For essays: please submit a 300-word abstract that details the thesis of your essay along with the logical line of argumentation that gets you to it. Furthermore, attach a 2,000-3,000-word essay in a Microsoft Word Document with all the images you reference in the essay. You can use a maximum of 6 artworks per essay. It would be preferable if the essay was already in Chicago citation style (including footnotes, bibliography, etc.), as if you are selected, you will need to convert it to Chicago anyways. We will peer review all essays. Writers selected for the publication will receive drafts for revision, prior to final publication.

For artworks: please submit a photograph of your artworks as individual and high-resolution “.jpgs” with their titles as file names. Furthermore, please attach a 200-word description of the artwork in a Microsoft Word Document. All photographable mediums of creative work will be considered (painting, photography, digital art, drawings, etc.). We will not accept more than 4 images per person.

To submit both artworks and essays, please email asteriskjournal@gmail.com. Please indicate your full name, your university, your class year, and your email. The title of the email should be “Lastname, Firstname Submission.” The deadline to submit is March 10th, 2021. Please do not submit previously published work, and any submission that does not heed the rules outlined in this email will be automatically disqualified.

We are looking forward to your submissions!

This week is the last week to submit and we are hoping to get as many submissions as possible! To remind you of our mission, we are the only student-run publication that features student work from all corners of the UC system. This year will mark our 14th anniversary here at UCSC, and we are determined to make it the most diverse and exciting display of student creativity possible. We would love to keep Matchbox UC wide, which is why we are asking for submissions of poetry, prose, visual art, music, and spoken word from students at your institution. Our full submission guidelines can be found at matchboxmagazine.org or on our Facebook page.

Submissions should be sent to matchboxmagazine@gmail.com. We will be accepting submissions from now until February 14th.

All schools represented by our magazine will receive copies of our 14th edition to be circulated among their student body. Samples of our magazine, as well as flyers and submission guidelines, can be supplied upon request.

Brazilian heritage brand Melissa is releasing the first US edition of Melissa NEXT, and educational competition and incubator program calling on aspiring student designers for contributions. Conceived to spotlight up-and-coming visionaries, NEXT contest invites young designers to submit their concepts, showcase their skills and win the rare opportunity to work with an established international brand.

Judges currently include Jason Wu, Marz Lovejoy, HauteLeMode and InternetGirl. The winner receives $10,000 cash prize and designs will be produced and launched as part of an official Melissa collaboration, with a percentage of sales royalties for the winner also.

For more details about the contest, judges, and submission area, please visit their website: http://melissanextusa.com/ Submissions are due February 28 at 11:59PM ET. The winner will be announced March 18, 2021.

I’m writing you today to encourage you to please send your best students and their writing our way––to Zaum––Sonoma State University’s award-winning literary magazine. We’re thrilled that this year will be Zaum‘s 25th anniversary.

Beautifully produced, carefully edited, Zaum is a student-run publication that presents the work of any writer or visual artist enrolled at any university anywhere in the world. This semester we’ll be publishing student work in a stunning new print edition of Zaum. Last semester we accepted work for our online edition.

Submissions should be sent to zaummag@gmail.com with a maximum of 15 pages of prose, up to 5 poems, and/or 5 pieces of artwork. Please note that art titles should be included in the body of submission email. Art should be sent in png, jpeg, or pdf format, with a dpi of at least 300.

The deadline for our print edition is February 28th, 2021.

Please visit our website at https://zaum.sonoma.edu/. Follow us on Twitter @ZaumPress, and on Instagram @zaummag. Our faculty advisor is poet Gillian Conoley.

Looking forward to hearing from your students, and sending my very best,

Liv Monroy
Senior Editor, Zaum

GRAPHITE Interdisciplinary Arts Journal is seeking visual art, creative writing, critical essays, recipes and experimental formats in response to the theme “ATTENTION/¡Atención!” for Issue 12, Spring 2021. Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis until January 18, 2021.

GRAPHITE invites works that use attention as an artistic, spiritual and/or political strategy, or that consider the ways that the concepts of ‘ATTENTION/¡Atención!’ operate historically and/or in the present moment. We are specifically interested in submissions which center anti-imperialist, anti-racist, intersectional and indigenous lived experience and/or research. We encourage emerging and/or student artists to apply. Submissions in English or Spanish are welcome. Send your submission(s) to graphitejournal@hammer.ucla.edu, with a subject line that starts with the word SUBMISSION and goes on to clearly indicate the submission type (artwork, essay, interview, or review, for example) as well as your subject and word count. Submissions must include the following: artist contact info and address,high-res images (above 300DPI) and/or completed essays, and a short artist bio (2-3 sentences).

Matchbox Magazine, an annual UC-wide literary & arts publication, is currently accepting submissions for our 15th edition (prose, poetry, visual art, music, and spoken word). Submissions are limited to UC undergraduates only. You may have seen our older editions around your office and elsewhere on campus and we are really hoping to have a large UCLA presence in this year’s issue.

To learn more, you can visit our website www.matchboxmagazine.org or contact me with any questions.