Don’t know where to start when it comes to getting your writing seen by others? Or maybe you’re wanting to write creatively but don’t want to commit to a blog of your own. We’ve been there. At Literature Grad, we’re looking for writers who want to engage critically with texts while they’re refining their critical writing style.
We are looking for reviews and academic style essays on a range of literary topics related to:
- Reading for Pleasure
- Navigating the post-university years
- Reflections/ Reflecting
- Space
- Leisure
- Lethargy
Your paper should discuss at least one text directly or indirectly. For example, you could submit an essay discussing the theme, ‘navigating the post-university years’ as a Quixote-ian narrative, utilising Cervantes’ novel to model your response. Or perhaps an analysis of a piece of poetry on the idea of ‘reflections’. This is a space for you to engage with the above themes creatively and critically.
Please be aware that all papers will be reviewed and assessed for suitability and we may request edits on your piece.
Enquiries & submissions are accepted via Instagram DM on @literaturegrad
The deadline for submissions to be featured the following month is the 28th of each month. You will be notified whether your paper will be featured on our website, or whether your paper is not yet suitable.
Paper requirements:
- Submissions should be between 500 – 2,000 words long.
- Essays discussing texts on any period can be submitted, but pieces engaging with texts published between 1700-1900 are welcomed. Papers on subjects post 2000 may take longer to be reviewed as these may need to be sent to an external moderator for review.
- All papers submitted must be provided in English.
- All papers must include a full bibliography.
- Appendix and notes are welcome, but may not appear in the final published version.
- If your submission includes images, please attach these as a separate file to the paper in either JPEG or WEBP format and titled accurately.
Things to note before submitting a paper:
We will publish each of the papers submitted in our ‘posts’ section of the website. Please do not submit anything that could be self-plagiarising for your academic work if you’re still waiting on grades.
We read every single submission and we will respond to each paper submitted. If we provide your piece with edits, we withhold the right to refuse publication if these edits are not made within the appropriate time frame.
Here’s some examples of our guest submissions:
‘The Ridiculous Invalid: Jane Austen’s Sanditon and Andrew Davies’ adaptation
Edge Hill PhD researcher, Emma Butler, thoughtfully pierces the idea of the invalid in Jane Austen’s Sandition, evaluating both the parody and horror in the portrayal of sickness.
Jane Austen’s Sanditon is an unfinished, twelve chapter gem of a book. In it, Austen satirises the 19th Century trend for seabathing, portraying a range of invalid sufferers (some with hypochondriac-esque complaints).
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