The Bell Tower Arts and Letters | The Bell Tower Arts and Letters

Created as a celebration of the humanities at TJC, The Bell Tower Arts Journal is sponsored by the Psi Gamma – Tyler Chapter of Sigma Kappa Delta (SKD), the National English Honor Society. The Bell Tower Arts and Letters page seeks to offer greater access to the humanities for the TJC community, celebrate the artistic and literary achievements of TJC students, and promote academic scholarship in the humanities across the campus.

Bell Tower Guidelines for Submission

Please carefully read the guidelines below. In submitting a work for consideration, the writer or artist agrees to abide by the editorial guidelines.

General Guidelines

Our goal is to create a publication that is a high quality, content-rich source of literary and artistic expression on a wide range of topics and themes. Therefore, we seek unique, insightful work displaying vivid, lively language and artistic skill.

Students are limited to three submissions total. All submissions must be the original work of the student writer or artist. We do not accept previously published or plagiarized work.

While we strongly support intellectual freedom as the right of every individual from all points of view, we do not accept work that is pornographic, profane, exploitative, or that seeks to cause injury to an individual or group.

All works, whether literary or artistic, must be accompanied by a completed submission form. Pen names may not be used. The writer’s or artist’s name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript or artwork.

Students whose visual or literary artwork is published in The Bell Tower Arts Journal retain all copyrights to their work.

Prose Guidelines

Works of short fiction or essays should be no longer than three pages in length and must conform to the accepted grammatical standards of American English.

Manuscripts must be typed and submitted according to the following guidelines:

Microsoft Word document only
Double-spaced text
Size 12 font only
Numbered pages
All outside sources used must be properly documented according to MLA style.

Prose works will be edited for clarity, grammatical precision, and space. When extensive revision is required, the manuscript will be returned to the author for approval.

Poetry Guidelines

We are looking for well-crafted poetry, both formal and free verse, which exhibits artistic skill with language. Poems should meet the accepted grammatical standards of American English in so far as doing so does not compromise the artistic intent of the poet. Poems must be typed and submitted according to the following guidelines:

Microsoft Word document only
Single-spaced text; double spacing between stanzas; size 12 font only
Numbered pages

*IMPORTANT: The Bell Tower Arts Journal observes the highest standards of precision in written expression whether in poetry or prose, and that is the responsibility of the editors.
Poetry still follows the conventions of Standard American English and must exhibit grammatical correctness. Sentences and phrases used in poetry are still punctuated correctly.

Fine Art and Photography Guidelines

Fine art images and photographs should be submitted in digitized format of the highest quality (.psd format; 300 dpi for black and white; 300 dpi-CMYK for color; no larger than 8x10) and must include the title, the size of the original work, and the media used.

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