SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Product is a student-run, annual online journal produced through the School of Humanities' Center for Writers graduate program at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Guidelines 

• Submissions are open to writers and artists in all genres.

• Your name or any other identifying information should not appear in the document itself. 

• Please provide your name, email address, and a short bio in the cover letter on Submittable. Specify the genre along with the title. 

• For prose (fiction and nonfiction), please limit your submission to 5,000 words, double-spaced. Creative and academic essays are welcome. 

• For poems, please submit up to 5 poems, 10 pages maximum.

• For drama, please submit up to 30 pages.

• For visual art, please submit up to 5 pieces.

• Writers may submit work in multiple genres, but each submission should be submitted separately.

• For prose, poetry, and drama please submit work in a single doc., docx., or pdf. file in a 12 pt. font, such as Times New Roman or Garamond.

• Hybrid, mixed-media, experimental, or digital forms welcome.

• All submissions must be previously unpublished, both in print and online.

• Simultaneous submissions are welcome. If you send us simultaneously submitted work, please note this in your cover letter and immediately withdraw any pieces that are selected by another publication.

We want to see the diverse ways in which writers use form, narrative, and language. 

Submissions are currently closed.

For questions please contact product@usm.edu.