[ Submission Guidelines ]
* Please note: you must be a Rice University undergraduate for your work to be considered for publication.

Magazine Submissions
Submissions for our 2018 issue are currently open! 

• You may submit to multiple genres: up to 5 poems, 3 fiction pieces, 3 creative nonfiction pieces, and 10 art pieces.
• Please do not include your name anywhere on your manuscripts or artwork. (We like surprises!)
• In the title of your email, include your full name (as you would want it to appear if published) and the genre of your submissions.
• If you are submitting multiple pieces to a particular genre, please include all of your submissions in one email. If you are submitting to multiple genres, please use a separate email for each genre.
• Submit all pieces as individual attached files, with only the piece’s title as the file name.

Monthly Contest Submissions
​Check back in January for our first prompt of 2018!

• You may submit as many times as you like within the dates of submission for each month's contest.
• Winners will:
  • Win a $25 Coffeehouse Giftcard
  • Have their piece printed in the Rice Thresher
  • Have their piece featured on our blog
• Runners up will also receive honorary mention and the chance to be featured on our blog!



Writing Guidelines

• We're just like your English professors: MLA makes us happy. Submissions should be typed in Times New Roman 12 pt font, with 1 inch margins and page numbers in the upper right corner. 
• Prose submissions should be double-spaced. Poetry may be single-spaced.
• Please submit Word documents (.doc or .docx files) only; no PDFs.

• We do not currently have any length limit for our monthly contests; however, we're reluctant to publish extremely long pieces, regardless of quality. Generally, our longest prose pieces fall between 18-22 pages.
• ​DO NOT include your name anywhere in the document.
• Make sure to include a title.

Art Guidelines

• Submissions from all media are encouraged.
• Give your work a title! And be sure to submit each piece with only the piece's title as the file name.
• Please submit images to R2 in the highest resolution and quality possible. Ideally, 2-D artwork should be scanned.
• Attach each piece to your email as an individual file and not within a zipped folder. You may also share your work through Google Drive and within a Google Drive folder; just be sure to include the link in your submissions email and give R2 permission to access your work.
• We don't require any standard shape or size – however, by submitting, you acknowledge that if your piece is selected for cover art, it may need to be cropped to fit our square magazine. (But we will check with you first!)

• The monthly contest does not accept art at this time!

Looking good? Send it to r2ricereview@gmail.com!

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[ What Comes Next ]

We'll be reading all your pieces over Winter Break, and discussing them when we get back. You'll hear from us sometime around the middle of February -- we like to be as certain as possible about our selections before we notify you, and that can take a while. 

If you're an accepted writer, you'll work with one of our editors to polish your work before publication. Depending on what's best for you, this might involve some emailing, some Skyping, or just some talking over a coffee. You'll generally have 2 to 3 weeks to revise your piece.

If you're an accepted artist, your piece is reviewed by both R2 staff and VADA (Visual and Dramatic Arts at Rice). Together, we come to a general consensus about what art appears in the magazine. Most accepted art pieces do not need any changes, but we may come to you with the occasional request for cropping or a higher quality photo or scan.