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Mirror Northwest Submissions

Submission Guidelines

We accept submissions from Wenatchee Valley College students, alumni, faculty and staff. Submissions of fiction, nonfiction, artwork and photography will be accepted until Jan. 31, 2027.

  • Each submission email should include your name and e-mail address. Please indicate in your email if you are a student, employee, or alumni of WVC. 
  • Please note that submissions not meeting the criteria below will not be considered.

Send submissions to MirrorNorthwest@wvc.edu.

Prose

  • Submit up to three (3) original short fiction pieces or essays between 100 to 2,000 words.
  • Note in your e-mail and on your document whether your submission is fiction or nonfiction.
  • Send manuscripts in .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .txt format.
  • Do not include your name or e-mail address on the story or essay document.
  • Bilingual or multilingual submissions are welcome.  

Stories and essays may be subject to editing. We do our best to preserve the content, meaning, and style of the original piece.

Poetry

  • Submit up to three (3) original poems.
  • Send each poem in its own document.
  • Do not include your name or e-mail address on each poem.
  • Bilingual or multilingual submissions are welcome. 

Poems may be subject to editing. We do our best to preserve the content, meaning, and style of the original piece.

Photographs

  • Submit up to three (3) photos.
  • Indicate in the body of the email titles of photos, if applicable.
  • Photos must be sent in .jpeg/.jpg, RAW, .png or .bmp format and saved at 300 dpi minimum.
    Important: Images that are not sent in the correct format cannot be reviewed or selected for inclusion in the journal. Please do not submit images as HEIC/.heic files.

Digital images of artwork

  • Submit up to three (3) digital images of original artwork.
  • Indicate in the body of the email titles of the pieces and medium (e.g. pencil, acrylic, ceramic, digital art)
  • Digital images of artwork must be submitted in .jpeg/.jpg files saved at 300 dpi (minimum).
    Important: Images that are not sent in the correct format cannot be reviewed or selected for inclusion in the journal. Please do not submit images as HEIC/.heic files.

What is "original" work?

For the purposes of this journal, original work means the content must be the writer or artist's own work and may not use or rely on plagiarized materials (without appropriate attribution) or materials generated using artificial intelligence tools (including large language models or generative image models). If you are unsure if your work meets these guidelines, or if you would like assistance attributing or disclosing the use of non-original work, you may contact the editorial team at MirrorNorthwest@wvc.edu. 

After you've submitted

Once you have sent an email with correctly formatted submissions, you can expect an email confirming that we have received your submissions. Final decisions are usually announced in April 2027, but you may hear back from an editor before then.

If for some reason you do not wish for your submitted work to be reviewed and potentially published, please email the editorial team at MirrorNorthwest@wvc.edu as soon as possible so we can remove it from the review materials for the editorial team.