Visual Art

  • Please submit paintings, drawings, photographs, comics/graphic narratives, or other genres as a jpeg attachment
  • The name of each file attachment should be the title of the piece
  • Professional photos are not required for initial submissions. If your work is accepted, we will require a high resolution image for the final printing (300 dpi).
  • Feel free to include a brief (no more than 1 paragraph) artist statement describing your artistic ambitions, processes, materials, etc.
  • Limit of five art pieces per submission

Send all submissions as a doc, docx, or pdf (jpeg if sending visual art) attachment to acommonplacelitmag@gmail.com

Additional Guidelines:

  • Please include the genre of your submission in your email’s subject heading (e.g., “Visual Art Submission”)
  • In the body of your email, feel free to include a cover letter briefly introducing yourself and your writing experience
  • All work submitted to A Common Place must be previously unpublished
  • Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but please let us know right away if your piece is accepted by another journal
  • A Common Place publishes work exclusively from Longwood undergraduate students. Please submit through your Longwood student email