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"The Harvard Advocate, founded in 1866, is the oldest continuously published collegiate literary magazine in the country. A quarterly magazine, The Advocate's mission is to publish the best art, fiction, poetry, and prose that the Harvard undergraduate community offers."
"The Harvard Advocate, founded in 1866, is the oldest continuously published collegiate literary magazine in the country. A quarterly magazine, The Advocate's mission is to publish the best art, fiction, poetry, and prose that the Harvard undergraduate community offers."
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Payment
No
Fee
No
Simultaneous submissions
Yes
Previously published
No
Expedited response
No
Available in print
Yes
Provides contributor copies
Yes: One
Examples online
Yes
Active on social media
Yes
Accepted genres
4 genres
Fiction
Max words: 7000
Poetry
Min pieces: 1
Max pieces: 6
Any form or length
Hybrid (illustrated forms of poetry)
Max pieces: 6
We primarily read and publish various styles of written poetry, but illustrated forms of poetry (like poetry comics)—along with other nontra...
Art
No specific limitations
Fiction
Max words: 7000
Poetry
Min pieces: 1
Max pieces: 6
Any form or length
Hybrid (illustrated forms of poetry)
Max pieces: 6
We primarily read and publish various styles of written poetry, but illustrated forms of poetry (like poetry comics)—along with other nontra...
Art
No specific limitations
Statistics
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Total submissions tracked
576 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
68 days
Fastest response time
1084 days
Slowest response time
How to submit
Process
Submissions are accepted through our online forms accessible at theharvardadvocate.com/submit or to the relevant email: art@theharvardadvocate.com fiction@theharvardadvocate.com poetry@theharvardadvocate.com
Cover letters
Coming soon! Advice from editors on what your cover letter and bio should look like!
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Please remove all identifying information from any submissions. FICTION: Attach your work as a Microsoft Word file, 12-point Times New Roman, double-spaced POETRY: Attach your work as a Microsoft Word or PDF file. Please include all poems in a single document.
Rights for published work
The Harvard Advocate acquires first publication rights for all accepted work.
Additional info
The Harvard Advocate accepts submissions created by members of the Harvard community, as well as outside contributors at our discretion. All submissions are considered anonymously.
About the Magazine
Founded in 1866 | United States
The Harvard Advocate, founded in 1866, is the oldest continuously published collegiate literary magazine in the country. Over its long history, it can count T.S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, and Norman Mailer among its members and e.e. cummings, Jack Kerouac, and Tom Wolfe as contributors to its pages. A quarterly magazine, The Advocate's mission is to publish the best art, fiction, poetry, and prose that the Harvard undergraduate community offers. Over the years, the undergraduate editors of and contributors to the Advocate have gone on to later fame, literary and otherwise. Theodore Roosevelt edited the magazine in 1880. Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, and T. S. Eliot all published their undergraduate poetry in the Advocate. Before World War II, undergraduates who worked on the Advocate included Malcolm Cowley, James Agee, Robert Fitzgerald, Leonard Bernstein, James Laughlin, and Norman Mailer.
Masthead
We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)
Primo Lagaso Goldberg
Editor-in-Chief
Annika Inampudi
President
Zach Lech & Emma Parrott
Art Editors
Mira Alpers & Eve Jones
Fiction Editors
Colby Meeks
Poetry Editor
Examples
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