Submissions are:CLOSED
Submission to us.
At Wavelength we are committed to students. We came to the decision that part of the way we can best use our voice for students is to give y’all the opportunity to have your own work published. Whether you make music, videos, write poems, articles, or have an opinion piece or letter to the editor then we want it! We want to represent students as best as we can and use our platform in a positive manner that benefits Western students. While you can submit anything to us for publication we will preface that we would prefer content that mainly focuses on pieces that are centered around student stories and experiences. So if you have something you have been toying around with and are wanting to try and be published please submit your piece to the folder below following the instructions below. We can’t wait to see what you create!
– Sincerely,
The Wavelength Staff (Lily, Shayna, Molly, Ronan, and Meg)
Submission Rules:
- Any Western undergrad student may submit to Wavelength.
- Submissions must be in the form of a project that is composed of writing, photography, video, audio, or a combination of these.
- Your Submission can be old but please if you are interested in submitting something older than three months do a look over it and do any edits you feel are necessary.
- Students may submit only one project per submission period.
*NOTE* We will not publish projects that are excessively long. Written pieces should be a max of eight to ten pages (This applies for Photo projects as well with a max of 15 photos included in them). Video Projects should be a max of twenty-five minutes long. If your project is longer than these restrictions you are welcome to submit it but if it is accepted you will work with a staff member to cut it down.
Deadline is TBD.
Submission deligation process
Once you submit your project to Wavelength here is what will happen on our side. Upon receiving the project Lily (the Wavelength director) will collect all of the submitted projects and screen them for anything considered against Wavelength’s publishing standards. After the initial screening the remaining submissions will be given to the Wavelength staff to deliberate on. The submissions will all be anonymous, none of the staff members will know of the creator. The Selections will be made and Selected projects will be contacted.
Publication Process
If your project is selected after the review process, a Wavelength staff member will work with you one-on-one to prepare your piece for publication. All accepted pieces will be published in Spring quarter at dates decided by the Wavelength staff depending upon the publication schedule. Wavelength is published online and we publish “teasers” of them on our social media as well.
Before you submit your project we suggest reviewing our website and looking at previous projects similar to yours (articles, videos, photo projects) purely to understand to gain an idea of the type of projects we publish.
Submission formatting:
- Word (Doc) file, Video (MP4) file, a photo (JPeg), and lastly an audio (WAV) file.
- Please make sure your project has correct elements (Video captions, Photo captions, An Audio Transcript)
- A title must be included in your submission
- Please do not include a name on your submission for anonymity purposes.
Submission Instructions
1. Email your anonymous file to wavelength@wwu.edu. If the file is too big, let us know, and we’ll help you out.
2. Using the form, provide your personal information. Please include the following:
- Your name and email address
- The title of your piece
- A sample author bio typed into the “Description of project” section. Tell us who you are, and why you created your project as well as a description of the project.
Note: Each student may submit one project per submission period.
If you decide to withdraw your submission, please contact us at wavelength@wwu.edu.