Welcome to the University of Alabama Creative Writing Program submissions page.
Find active calls for submission below. For more about UA's Department of English and our undergraduate and graduate creative writing programs see our website. Contact Paul Albano (ppalbano@ua.edu), Assistant Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing, with questions.
Send us your art! -- pictures, photos, digital art, illustrations, cyanotypes, wood carvings, stone etchings, and/or anything you can conjure!
We do not open links, so please upload all work as a pdf, word doc, or jpeg
Send up to 5 poems (all in a single file)
Send us a short story or creative nonfiction up to 4,000 words or up to 3 flash pieces (each of which should not exceed 1,000 words). Please choose a standard font and don’t do anything crazy with formatting unless it’s central to the experience of the piece. Novel excerpts are fine so long as they can stand on their own.
If you’re sending multiple pieces, submit all of your work in a single file, use clear page breaks between pieces, and clearly identify each title in the title area of Submittable (Title A/Title B/Title C).
Make sure to tell us if you're submitting fiction or creative nonfiction in the cover letter.
Please double space your submission and wait a month before resubmitting.
*We don't accept work from anyone with current University of Alabama affiliation