Parnassus Contact Information

Are you a writer? An artist? Secret weekend free verse scribe? Underground kamikaze collager? Parnassus is looking for you!

The staff has met up, and the work flowed in; the 2010 spring submission drive is officially over. Many thanks to everyone who gave us their writing and art in consideration of our upcoming 2010 issue. Congratulations to all those who were accepted this year - it was a tight race with a lot of amazing work. All accepted writers and artists have been officially contacted, so if you submitted and did not receive an email from us, your work was passed over this time around. We hope, however, that you'll consider submitting with us once again in the fall, near Thanksgiving, for our fall submission deadline in consideration of our 2011 issue. As always, we appreciate every submission and need all that we can get.

Our next submission deadline will be in the fall semester, traditionally following the Thanksgiving break.

Currently in the top ten of all collegiate literary arts magazines nationwide, Parnassus is a multi award-winning publication that has been in print since 1965, and if accepted, your work will be seen and admired by thousands in the NECC community and judged in consideration for national literary magazine competitions. Publication in Parnassus is a great resume item, and just imagine how proud mom will be. Details on submitting your writing or artwork are below. Good luck!

Parnassus accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, and photography.

There are no limits on submissions, but please read carefully and follow all of the instructions that follow:

New for 2009/2010:
All submissions must be accompanied by a short personal bio (maximum 300 words or fewer). The bio should be written about
yourself in third person, and it can be as serious or bizarre as you like it. If you are submitting in person (option one),
staple one bio to at least one of your submissions. If you are submitting electronically (option two),
include it with your attachments. Only one bio per submitter is needed.

You may personally drop off any writing submissions in person to one of two submission boxes.
During open submission dates, submission boxes are located on the two NECC campuses:

Haverhill Campus: Submission box can be found outside of C314Z (on the third floor of the C "Spurk" building).

Lawrence Campus: Submission box can be found in downstairs in the Library.

Hard copy or physical art submissions are accepted only at the Haverhill campus, and can be placed
in the large cardboard envelope behind the writing submission box near C314Z.

Submission forms can be found next to the boxes - please be sure and fill them out completely for each entry. The form is also available to download below, if you'd rather print your own. If your work is accepted, we will be asking you for an electronic version of your material, so please keep a file saved.

You may also electronically submit your writing to us. You can download the submission form from the link below and attach it to an email along with your works.
Please send the files as a Word Document (ending in .doc). Be sure to complete a form for each entry you are submitting.

You may also email high quality JPEG images/scans of your artwork. A minimum resolution of 300 is necessary - the bigger, the better.
We may need a higher quality image, so please keep a file on hand. If you are trying to send a very large file size of your artwork,
please consider burning your work to a CDR or DVDR and dropping it off in a jewel case (or protective envelope)
in our art submission box. The NECC email servers will sometimes reject large file attachments.

Email submissions by the stated deadline date to Faculty Advisor Patrick Lochelt at:

Remember that each entry needs its own form. Please fill out all required information.

Contributions to Parnassus are limited to students of Northern Essex Community College and are accepted in the areas of Poetry,
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and various art media and photography. Students may submit as many entries in any category as they wish.
Entries are reviewed and voted upon democractically by the editorial staff. We will contact only those who have been accepted.
Submission deadlines are announced around the NECC campuses each semester. Good luck!

All views expressed are those of the writers only. First North American serial rights
held by Parnassus. All individual rights reserved by the individual authors.