Submission Guidelines
Submission Guidelines
New Antigone maintains a high standard of quality as well as readability. We invite contributions from writers from all walks of life and fields of interest. The submissions should be interesting and relevant to the unifying theme of the individual issue they are intended for, and to the scope of New Antigone: postgraduate women research areas (please note that ‘writing’ and ‘arts’ are understood in a very broad sense and the journal is not written exclusively by women and for women).
All articles submitted to New Antigone are blind peer-reviewed (and fully refereed). The Editorial Committee consists of postgraduate students from the University of Queensland, University of Melbourne and University of Adelaide. The Editorial Board is represented by Australian and overseas academic personalities. Editors reserve the right to make minor editorial changes, including changes to grammar, punctuation and spelling, but no major alterations will be carried out without authorial approval.
Abstract and Biographical Note
Please email the editors of the issue you are interested in with a 250 word abstract of the piece you intend to write. This will be used both to check whether the article is suitable for a particular upcoming issue of New Antigone. In the same email, please send a short biographical note (three to four sentences in length) to include at least your institutional affiliation and research interests.
Theme
New Antigone is a journal for postgraduate women writing and arts and each issue is organized around a central theme. Articles must be written specifically for a particular issue's theme, and submitted directly to the editor/s of that issue unless otherwise stated in that issue's call for papers.
Style
New Antigone interconnects the popular and academic styles, so your submission should reflect that aim stylistically. You should present your thoughts in a way that is open to readers not involved in your field.
Word Limit
Each issue of New Antigone consists of three main sections - Feature, Critique and Creative. The length of essays and creative works will be from 2500 to 6000 words. The Beyond Representation section will occasionally include art criticism and aesthetics, but its purpose is to introduce profile of artists and their artworks. For themes and deadlines of upcoming issues, please see the page For Authors/Future Themes
References
Submissions should be thoroughly researched and referenced, with a list of works cited. References and citations must be in Chicago Manual style as shown under http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools.html In particular, do not use footnotes, use endnotes kept to a bare minimum. Submissions should also include links to external websites of relevance to the article.
Proofs and Alterations
Author alterations in excess of ten edits will constitute a rewrite of the submission and will require the author to provide a fee for typesetting and re-proofing. Pleae check your work carefully to ensure that it is of a standard for immediate typesetting and proofing before submission to avoid delays and extra costs. proofs will be supplied to authors prior to final typesetting, proofs and publication
File Formats
You can submit articles in the following formats: Microsoft Word .doc, .rtf and .pdf. Please email the editors directly, with your submission as an attachment.
If you can not submit in any format above, please email the editors and let them know exactly what format you will be submitting in.
If you are emailing a graphic, send it as a separate file with a note in the document indicating placement. Please include both a thumbnail plus the full size graphic. Save drawn graphics in .tiff uncompressed format. Save photographs in .tiff uncompressed format. jpg, jpeg formats may also be accepted. See the side bar for more information.
In the situation you are submitting new media artworks (videoclip, videoart, hypertext novel) please advise the editors the types of media you utilize.
Copyright
We cannot offer payment for articles published in New Antigone. At this stage, contributions are based on a simple exchange: you receive the recognition that comes with publishing an article, we benefit from publishable material.
We recognize that the copyright for articles you publish in New Antigone remains with you. If you are offered the opportunity to publish them elsewhere, you will not need New Antigone’s approval to do so, but we would appreciate the following sentence and link in your acknowledgements: "This article was first published in New Antigone - http://www.newantigone.com”.
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