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VOEGELINVIEW is the arts & humanities journal of the Eric Voegelin Society. This journal exists for the preservation and promotion of the life and work of Eric Voegelin, as such, any work dealing with Voegelin is welcome to be submitted and will be given priority. Submissions on the arts and humanities, as well as book reviews on recently published titles, are also welcome and encouraged. We publish a wide range of material covering art, classics, economics, film, music, literature, philosophy, politics, pop culture, and history. Any submission on these topics or related are welcome; if you are unsure your work is a good fit for us, familiarize yourself with the journal or send a submission query or pitch to Paul Krause, the journal’s editor-in-chief. Unsolicited essay submissions and unsolicited book reviews are considered on a rolling basis and published at the editor’s discretion. We also consider poems that deal with the arts, culture, film, literature, and transcendental themes. Short fiction and other creative writing dealing with the human condition as illuminated by the best of the western humanistic tradition is also considered in accord with the journal’s editorial needs. Please give up to five days to hear back with a response. If you do not hear a response after a week, you can query again, otherwise it is safe to assume we will not be able to publish your work.

Please email us with your proposal to Paul Krause, our editor-in-chief: [email protected]

When preparing works for submission, please observe these layout rules:

1. FORMAT: All works must be formatted in WORD. We cannot work with PDF. PDF submissions will be immediately returned.

2. LENGTH: Book reviews tend to range from 800 to 3,000+ words; essays 1,500-5,000 (longer essays will be considered upon review and at editor discretion); and articles 5,000-10,000 words (slightly longer articles will be considered upon review and at editor discretion). These word limits are not set in stone but these word ranges are the general expectation and norm of most book reviews, essays, and articles published in the journal and equivalent journals and magazines. All material is subject to internal editorial review and changes before publication to bring clarity and readability for our readers.

3. FONT AND LAYOUT:

Times New Roman 12 point type.

Page margins: 1 inch.

Alignment: left (no tab paragraph breaks).

Leave only one space after periods.

Punctuation inside quotations, e.g., He said, “I can’t believe it!”

Use single quotations only in double quotations, e.g., He said, “I can’t believe ‘she’ said that.”

4. CITATIONS: Citations are strongly discouraged as they are not appropriate for public writing style. If citations are deemed absolutely necessary they should be used sparingly and incorporated as endnotes rather than footnotes, composed in the Chicago Manual of Style. Hyperlinks are preferred to endnotes as they are more appropriate for public style writing. Only in exceptional circumstances will articles of an academic nature be considered and published. In-sentence referencing is the best way to compose public writing: Adam Smith wrote “[Quote]” or, As T.S. Eliot said, “[Quote].” Write your content as if it was to appear in a newspaper or magazine and not a peer-reviewed journal of academic scholarship.

5. NOTES: If you send us a revised piece after an original submission, please highlight in bold the changes so the assigned editor can easily see where the changes have made, as opposed to having read the entire revised piece again.

Please click the following for models of book reviewsessays, and articles or please visit the website. If you have any questions, please contact the editor.

6. COPYRIGHT:

Since VOEGELINVIEW does not pay royalties to its contributors, it does not claim ownership of original submission and publication. Contributors who prepare original content and copyright it themselves may request us to add to top of their article an indication of copyright along with the author’s name. Current U.S. copyright law does not require the inclusion of these traditional words or abbreviations to protect intellectual property.

What happens if you publish your work at VOEGELINVIEW and then wish to republish it elsewhere? VOEGELINVIEW gives blanket permission to all authors to republish their work elsewhere after 14 days of original publication if a crediting note to us in the republication of the essay or article where it appears. This includes republishing on personal blogs, websites, or other journals, magazines, and newspapers if they will accept a previously published submission. This also includes books if a book publisher is willing to publish previously published material.

Content published at VOEGELINVIEW is treated as part of the historical record and archive. Except in extenuating circumstances, like a publishing house conflict, all material will remain part of the VOEGELINVIEW archive as it was originally published. Since we will not claim specific copyright for any work published by us but only display this general language in the footer: Contents Copyright © The Eric Voegelin Society, if a publishing conflict arises from an author it is kindly asked that VOEGELINVIEW be credited as the original place of publication if possible. However, we will treat contributor material in a manner that suits the contributor’s publishing needs.

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