Submissions

Submissions for the next volume of The Oval: Undergraduate Literary Magazine

To submit, you must be an undergraduate at the University of Montana.

Submissions are outlined as:

• Two pieces of fiction or of dramatic works, limited to 5,000 words each, double-spaced, submitted as Word documents.
• Two pieces of non-fiction, limited to 5,000 words each, double-spaced, submitted as Word documents.
• Five poems, each must be submitted in separate Word documents.
• Three pieces of visual art.*

An individual may submit to more than one genre. 

Under Cover Letter/Biography, please include a brief biography (40-50 words) written in third person, your UM student ID number (790) and, if submitting to the visual arts category, the original medium of your work.

*The Oval defines Visual Art as photographed or scanned art compositions, including but not limited to original paintings, drawings, mixed media, sculpture, and digital art.  Submissions must be formatted as a high-resolution JPEG file. Other file formats will not be accepted. Please include the original medium of the art in the biography.

Submissions open January 24th, 2023 and will close February 28, 2023.