The Blue Route: Undergraduate Literary Journal

How to submit

• Processs

  Email

• Cover letter

  No cover letter advice

• Eligibility

  Young creatorsCreators from a specific location / ethnic group

• Formatting

  We don't have formatting requirements for this magazine

• Author's rights

  We don't have rights information for this magazine

• Additional info

  Undergraduate Students: Only previously unpublished work of current undergraduate writers will be considered. In order to verify your status as an undergraduate, we ask that with your submission you send along the email of a faculty member from your department. Until we gain confirmation of undergraduate status from this reference, we will not be able to publish your work. We want good, highly imaginative writing about contemporary life as you see it. We’re not interested in romance, detective, horror, sci-fi, and other genres, unless the piece somehow rises above the conventions associated with those types of writing. We’re also not interested in writing that clichéd, overly influenced by TV or film, features flat characters, emphasizes end rhyme above all else, and/or exhibits a general insensitivity to the beauties and subtleties of language. We specifically encourage submissions from underrepresented groups, including BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and neurodivergent writers, as well as writers with disabilities.