Submission Guidelines

Submission Guidelines

The Trinity Review accepts student submissions of poetry, short fiction, short nonfiction, photography, art, and more.

General Requirements

This journal uses a fully anonymous, double-blind review process, so that the identity of a submission’s author is concealed from that submission’s reviewers and the identity of a submission’s reviewer is concealed from that submission’s author. Please remove all instances of your name from your work before uploading!

Only works submitted by current students of Trinity University in San Antonio, TX will be considered for publication.

Do not include a nonfiction work that name-drops real, identifiable people. We will not publish slander. You may submit a piece with changed names and minimally identifying features of others.

Excessively graphic imagery and/or language can disqualify a work from being accepted. Please be tasteful, and if you have any questions, email us at trinityreview@trinity.edu.

Additional Details by Submission Type

Prose

Submission Limit: 3

We understand that quite a lot of works go over the 2,000-word limit. Please do your best to pare stories down to fit within that limit. If that is not possible, then send us a snippet of the overall story (within 2,000 words) and let us know in the “Comments or questions” section of the submission form.

Poetry

Submission Limit: 5

Don’t break up your lines by putting a line in it. Just use the spacing tool/press enter to start a new line. Otherwise, go nuts.

Photography

Submission Limit: 6

We love photography, but we don’t have the manpower to look at more than six submissions per student. Do your best to choose the best six that you have in your portfolio! 

Artwork

Submission Limit: 6

Any artwork (digital or otherwise) will be looked at. As with photography, we would love to look at everything you have, but we just can’t afford to review more than six per student.

Miscellaneous

Submission Limit: 6

This is for all the other funky submissions that maybe don’t fit perfectly into the usual categories. Have you been working on a really cool comic strip that you’d like to submit? Or maybe there’s an awesome song you’ve written? This is our print edition, so we’re a little more limited in what we can display compared to the digital fall magazine, but we’d still love to print any lyrics or visual element with a QR code to the full piece! We’ll take nearly any creative work that you want to show off. Below are a few examples of what we’ll take along with their submission limits.

• Comics — 6
• Photoessays — 6
• Songs — 5 mins
• Anything else? — Just ask!

Copyright and Reprinting

Please review our Submissions Agreement prior to submitting your work. The Trinity Review believes in supporting authors and their ownership of their work. By submitting a piece, you are granting the Trinity Review the right to publish and print the specified work. All rights to the piece revert to the author after publication.