How to Submit
Voices from the Hill is a blog created to display creative works from any and all UPIKE students. Works will be featured bimonthly with the best submission each year being recognized at UPIKE Humanities Honors Night.
The blog will publish creative work in a wide variety of genres and mediums, such as poetry, fiction, photography, short films, traditional visual art, game development stills or clips, art assets, non-copyrighted original music recordings, etc. If you can make it, (and WordPress can host it) we’ll publish it!
Submission Types
- Poetry – up to 10 pages max, double-spaced, with each new poem starting on a separate page, Word doc, 12pt, Times New Roman
- Creative Prose – 5000 words max, 20 pages max, fiction & non-fiction, double spaced, Word doc, 12pt, Times New Roman
- Short Films (original work, video game development clips, etc.) – 5 minutes max, mp4 file type
- Images (photography, screenshots, pictures of paintings, video game stills): jpg file type, ideally 1024×1024 or 300×300 in dimensions, but can be determined by needs of work being shared, 3 images per submission
- Original Non-Copyrighted Music – recording, mp3 file type, 5 minutes max
Editing Suggestions
When you submit you will have the option to have one of our editors check your work for grammatical and structural errors. If your submission contains errors for stylistic effect, be sure to let us know so we do not make any additional edits.
AI Policy
You can submit work created with the assistance of AI, but you must include the AI model and prompt you entered into it. And the core of the piece must be your own work. AI Assisted means that your work contains elements either generated or inspired by AI. So, if AI was used in any part of your submission, you will label your submission as AI Assisted in the submission form.
Send submissions to voicesfromthehill@upike.edu. Our team will try their best to respond back in a timely manner. Generally, works submitted by the 1st of a month will be considered for our mid-month post, while works submitted by the 15th will be considered for our end-of-month post. Please download and fill out the document below, then attach to your email submission.
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