{"id":12,"date":"2025-02-11T21:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T21:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:05:42","slug":"submit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/submit\/","title":{"rendered":"Submit to Off Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Email all submissions to:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:offcenter@mtsu.edu?subject=\">offcenter@mtsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Formal Submission Guidelines for Manuscripts and Artwork:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-style-compact-list\">\n<li>All manuscripts must be double-spaced for fiction and nonfiction. Poetry may be single spaced.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Submission limitations: Up to 20 pages total; no more than 2 prose and 5 poems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All manuscripts should be formatted in a readable (12 point) font with at least 1-inch margins<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Please include your full name on the manuscript<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For artwork, please include the title of the piece and the medium of composition (e.g. \u201cPhoto\u201d\/Watercolor)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All submissions and commentaries (see below) should be emailed to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mallto:offcenter@mtsu.edu\">offcenter@mtsu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All Submissions:&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Regardless of medium submitted,&nbsp;your submission should include a composer\u2019s commentary of&nbsp;<strong>up to 500 words<\/strong>. Things you could discuss include but are not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-style-compact-list\">\n<li>What are your writing inspirations?\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What inspired you to create this piece, specifically?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What were some influences which guided you?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What was your writing process for this work? Did you go through multiple drafts?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Did you have a way of composing the piece, like a storyboard or an outline?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Did you learn anything from this experience about yourself as a writer?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Questions about commentaries?&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:offcenter@mtsu.edu?subject=\">Email us<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For the Written Word:&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We welcome content across a variety of genres, including essays, personal writing, creative nonfiction, all kinds of fiction, and poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alternate Media:&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Any video or sound project should be&nbsp;submitted as a link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who can Submit:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We welcome&nbsp;submissions from all members of the MTSU community: students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Applicants do need have to a MTSU email address to apply to our journal. Please email us your submission to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:offcenter@mtsu.edu\">offcenter@mtsu.edu<\/a>&nbsp;from your MTSU email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>A Note on Copyright, Creativity, and Integrity:&nbsp;<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It goes without saying (but we will anyway), that you should be the original creator of your art\u2014be it written or otherwise. Additionally, content must be unpublished elsewhere.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email all submissions to:&nbsp;offcenter@mtsu.edu Formal Submission Guidelines for Manuscripts and Artwork: All Submissions:&nbsp; Regardless of medium submitted,&nbsp;your submission should include a composer\u2019s commentary of&nbsp;up to 500 words. Things you could discuss include but are not limited to: Questions about commentaries?&nbsp;Email us. For the Written Word:&nbsp; We welcome content across a variety of genres, including essays, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/offcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}