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Submissions Wanted!

Call For Work – Deadline 15th of November.

Digital Culture Journal is a student-led magazine that focuses on both creative and academic contribution to the varied field of digital culture, with a strong interest focus on digital art and electronic literature.

We are both a student magazine and an international digital culture magazine, everything in our magazine should be free to access and open for all to engage with.

We welcome submissions to our magazine, but reserve the right to not engage with works that are considered harmful or offensive. Our goal is to be a welcoming space for all, but to not shy from embracing challenging and transgressive works.

Submission guidelines:

We welcome submissions of both creative and scholarly work.

In regards to creative work, we are open to Electronic literature, interactive pieces, sound work, digital sculptures, kinetic art, interactive pixel art, net-art, experimental digital art and other emerging forms.

In regards to essays and scholarly work, we are open to critical writing that explores digital culture or electronic literature.  All scholarly work needs to be well-edited and in a standard academic format.

Still photography, print-style poetry or fiction are not suitable for this magazine. And all digital or interactive work should have a literary or artistic focus.

To submit work to Digital Culture Journal, please follow the directions below and send all materials to  dcjsubmissions@gmail.com

To submit Interactive/Creative Work please include ALL of the following:

  1. Author(s) Name
  2. Email Address
  3. Short statement of between 200-300 words describing the work being submitted.
  4. A link to the work.
  5. A bio of the Author(s) of around 150-200 words.
  6. A screenshot or image of the work (less than 1mg in size and formatted for the web)
  7. Genre and Content Tags (ie metadata, list of identifying words)

If your work is accepted additional material will the requested.

To submit Essays or Scholarly work include ALL of the following:

  1. Author(s) Name
  2. Email Address
  3. Short statement or Abstract of between 200-300 words describing the writing.
  4. A bio of the Author(s) of around 150-200 words.
  5. An image representing the work (ensure you either own the copyright (ie have made the image) or are allowed to use the image (ie Creative Commons allowed).
  6. A PDF of the Essay or Scholarly writing using proper academic citation methods.
  7. Please use Chicago style as your citation method. https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/
  8. As for word count, we prefer critical writing of between 1,500 and 7,000 words.
  9. Genre and Content Tags (ie metadata, list of identifying words)


Overall, each Author can submit a maximum of 2 submissions per issue.

While previously published works are considered, unpublished works are preferred. 

All works need to be submitted with appropriate Genre and Content Tags, these include Format, Genre, Content themes, as well as content warning for:
Violence, nudity, assault, mentions of sexual assault, graphic depictions of violence, and other content warning tags the author deems necessary. As well as Flash warnings/Epileptic warnings and warnings for sound that may affect hearing aids.

Genre and Content Tags will be finalized in consultation with the editors, after work acceptance.