11 ½, Eugene Lang College’s Literary Journal, will be open for submissions soon!
We are looking for visual art works: photography, typography, prints, painting, collage, comic, sculpture, illustration, fine art, process scans (sketchbook/notebook pages), etc.
Please submit up to 5 digital pieces. Works must be submitted as TIFF/JPEG file type and in CMYK format. File size requirement: 300 dpi and minimum 500 x 500 px. Optional: include a short artist statement/statement of intent (max 200 words).
Please provide a title, year of creation, medium, and preferred artist name for each piece. Works submitted may additionally be considered for cover art usage.
All kinds of poetry are welcome. Submissions can include (but are not limited to) lyric, prose, narrative, visual, free verse, haiku, ekphrastic, and sonnet. If you believe it’s a poem, it is!
Submit up to 3 poems with a maximum of 8 pages. Please submit your work as a single document in either .docx or .pdf format, using 12 point font.
If the submission is entirely in another language, please also include a translation into English. If the submission is partially in another language than English, translation is recommended but optional.
Please only submit previously unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but let us know if it has been accepted elsewhere.
We are also interested in multidisciplinary work. If you have visual elements that supplement your written work, please submit them alongside your poem(s). This can include scanned, handwritten versions of the poem(s), drawings, photographs, and other complementary visuals.
We are open to all styles including, but not limited to, memoir, lyric essay, academic writing, journalism, and hybrid works.
Maximum 8 pages double-spaced or 2,000 words, submitted as .docx file.
Please only submit previously unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know if it has been accepted elsewhere.
If the submission is in another language, please also include a translation into English.
All varieties and genres of fiction (aside from screenplays) are welcomed. This includes but is not limited to, short stories, flash fiction, auto-fiction, micro-fiction, plays, prose, hybrid works, and excerpts from longer works.
Only submit previously unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know if it has been accepted elsewhere. (Works published in Eleven and a Half may be published anywhere else afterwards!)
We have a 4,000 word limit per submission. Multiple pieces will be accepted, but the total number of words across all works must be no more than 4,000.
Please submit only .doc and/or .docx files (not PDF or Pages).
Have fun and enjoy!