Fall Submissions for Periphery 63 are CLOSED. Spring Submissions will open on December 26, 2025. Please read through the requirements and information regarding submissions before submitting.
Submission Information:
Submission to Periphery is free and open to undergraduate students in the United States.
Periphery accepts stories, photographs, poems, personal narratives, music, essays, paintings, interviews, new media work, sculptures, graphic narratives, spoken word, comics, prose poems, and genres that have yet to be created or recognized.
All submissions are sent through a blind review process by the editor-in-chief, art director, assistant art director, and editorial staff only.
Please note that Periphery reserves the right to edit any submissions but does not claim the rights to any published work. This applies to all works: literary and art.
Submission Deadlines:
Periphery 63 will accept submissions in two windows over the 2025-2026 school year, one window in the Fall and one in the Spring. We are not able to offer extended windows of submissions in the Spring due to publication processes.
Fall: September 10 – November 14
Spring: December 26 – February 20
Submission Requirements:
All submissions must be sent in separately. Meaning, if you plan to submit three pieces, please attach three separate files to the form on Submittable.
Periphery allows up to 5 art submissions and up to 3 literary submissions by any one person. To make space for as many voices as possible, Periphery will publish a maximum of three pieces by the same person in any given edition.
If you plan to submit a literary work, it must be limited to 10 pages.
How to Submit:
Periphery uses the Submittable account “Periphery Art and Literary Journal”.
Please do not include any personal information or names on your actual submission. This guarantees that the editors can blindly edit and accept/reject submissions.
Audio and video submissions will be represented in some form in the print publication and formally published on our website. If you are submitting a musical performance, please include the lyrics in your submission.
We ask that visual artists include a high-resolution photo of their work. Upon request from a Drake University student, if their piece is chosen for publication, assistance with publication-quality photography of the piece will be provided.
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If you have any questions, please contact periphery.editors@drake.edu. Thank you for your submissions!
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