If you would like to submit to Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to present, send an explanatory email that includes your institutional affiliation to editor@americanpopularculture.com and attach the essay you would like to be considered to that email. Please make sure your article conforms to the following restrictions:

1) Articles should be attached to a brief cover letter in the email text containing the author's name, institutional affiliation, and contact information.
2) Articles should follow MLA style guidelines. (Please use MLA style parenthetical references, a works cited page, no or few notes. One space after periods.)
3) Articles must be analytical, original, and focus on some element of twentieth or twenty-first century American Studies, especially pertaining to popular culture 1900 to present.
4) Articles should be no more than 10,000 words in length.
5) Authors are responsible for reprint permissions of any images. Please do not send accompanying images if you do not own the copyright or have reprint permission in hand.
6) Because the Advisory Board of Americana practices double blind review, articles must not contain the name of the author or any reference to the author.
7) We do not publish profanity, gratuitously violent, or erotic work. If the material is not vital to your argument, cut it. If it is, you may consider submitting it elsewhere or eliding word choice etc. with hyphens.

A note on reading times: We publish twice a year. Our reading period for spring is January through June with the spring edition decision and publication coming in late June/early July. Our reading period for fall is July through December with the fall edition decision and publication coming late December/early January.

Send your work when it is ready, and we will consider it for the next available issue.

If you would like to submit to Review Americana: A Creative Writing Journal, send an explanatory email that includes your name and contact information to editor@americanpopularculture.com. Attach your submission to that email.

Please conform to the following guidelines:

1) We consider poems, short stories, short screenplays, short plays, creative nonfiction, essays about creative writing, and essays about the teaching of creative writing.
2) We do not consider simultaneous submissions. If your work is under consideration elsewhere, please do not submit it to us.
3) We do not consider multiple submissions. Please wait until you have heard from us regarding your previous submission before you submit again. Poets may submit up to four poems. Other authors should submit only one work.
4 ) We only consider previously unpublished work
5) We do not publish profanity, gratuitously violent, or erotic work.
6) All work submitted to any publication or contest at Americana is reviewed blindly. Please do not include your name on the submission. If you do, we will remove it before it is sent out for review.

A note on reading times: We publish twice a year. Our reading period for spring is January through June with the spring edition decision and publication coming in late June/early July. Our reading period for fall is July through December with the fall edition decision and publication coming late December/early January.

Send your work when it is ready. We will consider it for the next available issue.

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