Submission Guidelines and GAI Policy
Sheepshead Review is a biannual publication, meaning you get two chances a year to submit. Send us your flash fiction, your visual art, and anything in between! Please see our Submittable page for genre-specific submission guidelines.
You may submit up to five (5) pieces to our visual arts genre.
You may submit up to three (3) pieces to our fiction, nonfiction, and poetry genres.
By submitting your work to SHR, you agree to the following terms and conditions:
Sheepshead Review (SHR) retains the right to use any work published in Sheepshead Review on our website, and on any online presence (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, or similar networking presence). In addition, SHR may use the work in any compilation that SHR may choose to republish. The work may also be used in SHR sponsored readings, commercials on campus radio and television, campus newspapers, advertising for SHR, and for other purposes that SHR deems necessary.
Generative Artificial Intelligence Policy
At Sheepshead Review, our staff wants to ensure that our journal only publishes original work. Accordingly, we refuse to publish generative artificial intelligence (GAI) work in our journal. Because of the nature of GAI, it is incapable of making work that is original in content, essence, and thought. GAI’s inaccuracy and harmfulness to the environment are also factors that play a role in our decision not to publish this type of content.
Any work produced by GAI will be taken out of consideration. If work is suspected to be GAI-generated, the Sheepshead Review staff will take steps to confirm our findings. While we may not be able to completely confirm if work is GAI-generated, the final verdict lies with our genre teams.
This policy is not meant to target submitters who may be using a program that has AI-assisted tools embedded into it. We understand that in some scenarios — specifically in coding tools in Digital and Interactive Media submissions — the use of AI/GAI-assisted mechanisms has become practically unavoidable. In scenarios where submitters are unsure if the use of a GAI tool is admissible, we ask submitters to disclose this within their submission.
Our goal is to ensure that the content we publish is both ethically sourced and original. The staff of Sheepshead Review would like to preemptively thank our readers and submitters for understanding our stance on GAI.
Send us your short memoirs, essays, interviews, profiles, historical narratives, letters…we’ve even published satirical recipes. The more creative, the better. We don’t want your full life story, but we’d welcome that one epiphanic moment that changed you.
Submission Guidelines:
- Maximum of three (3) submissions
- 3000 word limit
Sheepshead Review (SHR) retains the right to use any work published in Sheepshead Review on our website, and on any online presence (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, or similar networking presence). In addition, SHR may use the work in any compilation that SHR may choose to republish. The work may also be used in SHR-sponsored readings, commercials on campus radio and television, campus newspapers, advertising for SHR, and for other purposes that SHR deems necessary.
We seek innovative, powerful stories that engage our minds and hearts. Move us. Reveal something unexpected. Keep it succinct; keep it human. Short doesn’t mean shallow— Hemingway could roil a stomach in six words.
Submission Guidelines:
- Maximum of three (3) submissions
- 3000 word limit
- Flash and Microfiction welcome!
Sheepshead Review (SHR) retains the right to use any work published in Sheepshead Review on our website, and on any online presence (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, or similar networking presence). In addition, SHR may use the work in any compilation that SHR may choose to republish. The work may also be used in SHR-sponsored readings, commercials on campus radio and television, campus newspapers, advertising for SHR, and for other purposes that SHR deems necessary.
Our poetry staff is looking for a honed edge and distinctive voice. Cliché is your mortal enemy. We read free-verse to formal, and everything in between. Don’t forget form can speak as much as your title, and your title can speak as loud as your lines. Be bold. Be brilliant. Take risks.
Submission Guidelines:
- Maximum of three (3) submission
- All poems may be submitted in one document
- Format the title of your submission as follows: “Title of Poem 1”, “Title of Poem 2”, “Title of Poem 3”
Sheepshead Review (SHR) retains the right to use any work published in Sheepshead Review on our website, and on any online presence (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, or similar networking presence). In addition, SHR may use the work in any compilation that SHR may choose to republish. The work may also be used in SHR sponsored readings, commercials on campus radio and television, campus newspapers, advertising for SHR, and for other purposes that SHR deems necessary.
The visual arts staff are looking for work that shows quality craftsmanship, unique style, and expression of the artist. All mediums of visual art are welcome.
Submission Guidelines:
- Maximum of five (5) submission
- List the medium and size of the art piece
A note from the visual art staff: Images should be 300 dpi and at least 5×7″. SHR does not offer post-processing services. Any submissions not visually presented following these guidelines will likely be rejected. If you need technical assistance, ask us first and we’ll do our best to help.
Sheepshead Review (SHR) retains the right to use any work published in Sheepshead Review on our website, and on any online presence (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, or similar networking presence). In addition, SHR may use the work in any compilation that SHR may choose to republish. The work may also be used in SHR sponsored readings, commercials on campus radio and television, campus newspapers, advertising for SHR, and for other purposes that SHR deems necessary.
Send us non-traditional works that expand the experiences of storytelling beyond the possibilities of the printed page.
Submission Guidelines:
- Videos no longer than 5 minutes
- Audio Recordings no longer than 5 minutes
- Game Play time no longer than 20 minutes
Sheepshead Review (SHR) retains the right to use any work published in Sheepshead Review on our website, and on any online presence (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, or similar networking presence). In addition, SHR may use the work in any compilation that SHR may choose to republish. The work may also be used in SHR sponsored readings, commercials on campus radio and television, campus newspapers, advertising for SHR, and for other purposes that SHR deems necessary.
