If you are ready to submit something please click here and follow the instructions on the page. If you have not submitted to Pseudonym Required before then there are four important things you should know:

  1. You must be currently, or previously, affiliated with Illinois Wesleyan. This policy exists to ensure writers at the school receive the proper amount of attention from the editors.
  2. You must provide your name, email, pseudonym, and the title of your work when you submit it for review. The names and emails will go into a database where they will be matched with the pseudonym given at the time of submission. A staff member who is not involved in the process of editing will then assign pieces to certain readers and editors in order to ensure that those individuals are unaware of whose work they are examining.
  3. No work, whether fiction or poetry, can be longer than 15 manuscript pages. This is done to ensure each receives equal attention from the editors. If you wish to submit a segment of a larger work you should feel free to do so, but remember to include a page summary of what the readers and editors would need to know in order to make sense of the story.
  4. Submission deadlines will be at 12AM on Wednesday morning of every other week, and they will be time stamped, via the server, in order to ensure that anything submitted after the deadline is excluded from the pool of possible publications.

Due to the nature of the process of publication, it must be clarified that the author retains all rights to any works submitted to Pseudonym Required. The only exception to this is that the author is allowing for their works to be displayed in the online journal and, in the case of prizewinners, submitted to outside organizations for contests and further editing.