The UMA Scholar:

a publication of the UMA Honors Program

Now accepting submissions for the thirteenth annual publication of Critical and Creative Expressions

The UMA Honors Program is now accepting submissions for the UMA Scholar. Students, Alumni, Faculty and Staff are invited to submit: prose, poetry, scholarly papers, and artwork(drawings, photographs, sculpture, etc.) for publication. Works do not have to conform to a theme and they do not have to be recent works.

Guidelines:

• GENERAL Guidelines
  • Title of piece (written or artwork) must be on the submission.
  • Title of piece should be the filename
  • No names should appear on the submission file itself.
  • All submission MUST be sent electronically.
  • 3 maximum submissions per person
• WRITTEN WORK: (poetry prose, scholarly papers)
  
  • Maximum length: 15 pages double spaced.
  • Please use rich text file format (RTF) ONLY. (For more information on how to save Word documents in RTF format please see this GREAT tutorial from Colorado State Universitty)
• ARTWORK: (drawings, photographs, sculpture, etc.)
  
  • Artwork: photographs of the piece of work are acceptable.
  • Photographs: you may submit color photographs of your work, if selected we may ask for a black and white image.
  • Please limit file size to that which can be emailed, we can accept most image formats.

 

Submissions not conforming to these requirements will NOT be considered for publication.
All submissions will receive a blind review by the UMA Scholar Editorial Board.

To submit your work:

1. Fill out the UMA Scholar Submission Form.
2. Email and attach your submissions to: umahonorsprogram@maine.edu
3. DEADLINE: February 15th, 2013:EXTENDED!!!
   

 

For more information please contact Jodi Williams, Ph.D. Honors Program Director at jodi.williams@maine.edu or by calling 207-621-3295. Any students interested in assisting with the publication of the UMA Scholar please contact me directly.