Publications

All submissions should be the best version of your work, carefully presented with minimal spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. All sources should include citations according to Modern Language Association (MLA) style using the endnote rather than the footnote format. Submissions must be typed in a word document.

Submit from your student csub.edu account. Include your name as it appears on your school records and csub.edu email when you submit your work.

The faculty advisor will remove your name before distributing your contribution to the student editorial board so the evaluation of your work will be fair and objective.

All critical essays should not exceed fifteen manuscript pages including endnotes and Works Cited.

Book reviews should be a minimum of two pages and a maximum of five pages. They should use the following format:

• 12-point font Times New Roman
• Book title, edition, author, publisher, and year of publication
• Name of reviewer, major, college or university, and email

Sample format for book review:

Book Review
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust, Volume 1) Philip Pullman. (Knopf, 2017).
Reviewed by
Adelaide McButton
Department of Physics
California State University, Bakersfield
amcbutt@csub.edu

All submissions should be sent to calliope@csub.edu. 

Students interested in careers in editing and publication may join the Calliope team by enrolling directly into English 4750. This course counts as an elective in the English Major Language and Literature (EMLL).

If you have any further questions, please contact us via email at calliope@csub.edu.

Click on the link below for an electronic copy of Calliope 2024:

Calliope - 2024

Click on the links below for electronic copies of Calliope:

Calliope - 2023

Calliope - 2022

Calliope - 2021

Calliope - 2020

All submissions will be sent to the email orpheus@csub.edu.

All submissions should be the best version of your work, with minimal spelling and grammar errors. We accept submissions of all kinds, as there are no restrictions in context or form. Submissions must be typed on a word document. Use of profanity must be crucial to the context of the work.

Submit from your student csub.edu account. Include your name as it appears on your school records and csub.edu email when you submit your work.

The faculty advisor will remove your name before distributing your contribution to the student editorial board so the evaluation of your work will be blind.

If your work is accepted you may choose to publish under any name that you choose.

Poetry:
Submit a poem or poems of up to 80 lines total.

Short Stories:
Submit up to 20 pages total in short stories. Short stories must be doubled spaced.

Chapter from Larger Literary Piece:

Submit up to 25 pages total in chapters; writing must be double-spaced.

Drama:
Submit up to 25 pages total in plays in standard script format.

Illustrated Comic Strip/Excerpt from Graphic Novel/Graphic Short Story:

Submit up to 10 black and white pages total in PDF format.

Art:
Submit up to 5 works of art. All submissions must be scanned or photographed properly. PDF format best.

If you have any further questions, please contact us at orpheus@csub.edu.