Submit to The Bellwether Review

Who can contribute?

Interested in being published in our campus literary magazine, The Bellwether Review? The Bellwether Review accepts work from students of all writing levels and majors. Send us your poems, fiction, creative nonfiction essays, and art for our next issue. We generally do not publish research essays or works over 5,000 words. The journal primarily publishes the work of PCC students, but we also consider a limited number of submissions from the general public, with a commitment that a minimum of 80% of the works published in the journal will be from PCC students.

How to submit

Send your submission to bellwetherreview@gmail.com by the first Friday in April. Be sure to comply with the deadlines and submission guidelines. If selected for publication (after being reviewed by our student-led editorial team), your work will be printed in the next edition of the journal and distributed throughout Rock Creek Campus. For more info on the journal, contact karen.embry@pcc.edu.

Submission deadline
  • Submissions must be received by the first Friday in April.
Submission guidelines

The editors are looking for the following submissions:

  • fiction
  • poetry
  • essays
  • artworks

All submissions must be titled. Include your name, list of titles submitted, PCC email, and phone number in the submission email, but submission files should not have your name or identifying information within the file itself. All contributors will receive a copy of The Bellwether Review.

Submit up to 2 short stories, 5 poems, 2 essays, 2 scripts, 4 visual artworks.