Trove is committed to publishing creative art works from current university undergraduate and postgraduate students. 

Please ensure you read the submission criteria before following the two-step process to present your work.

1. Submission deadlines
2. Submitting your work
3. Creative arts submission criteria

Submission deadlines

Our next issue is a special, war-themed edition to tie in with the Cultural Precinct WINTERarts Australians and War program.

For the youth of 2015, immediate associations with the Anzac tradition might feel historic – we’re looking for fresh perspectives on Australia’s war history.

We accept art, fiction, photography, poetry, music, multimedia and more. If you’ve created an awesome thing, chances are we want to publish it.

Submissions close 8 July 2015.

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Submitting your work

1. Check that your work complies with the the specific genre guidelines detailed on this page.
2. Please send your creative writing submission/s as a RTF (Rich Text Format) or Word Document; saving the document/s with the title of your work and your last name for the separate cover page.
3. Send us your submission(s) via email to [email protected] along with a completed cover page (see right of screen).

Post-submission

You will receive a generic confirmation of your submission via email, and we will let you know as soon as a decision to accept, or to accept with amendments, or to not accept, has been made.

If the editors deem that the work may be suitable for publication after minor changes (for creative writing entries only), the specific points in question will be communicated to you. Given satisfactory amendment, publication will result. If not, the editors have the right to decline the submission.

The small print: Publication in Trove does not bar you from submitting and publishing the same piece of work at a later date in a different publication. Do not worry if you cannot exactly match your style of work to our editors’ specialties. We have wide-ranging interests and will recognise good work in any genre.

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Creative arts submission criteria

We publish various types of creative writing.

Short fiction and scripts

• Word limit: 4000 words.
• Layout of the text: double spaced, left justified, 12pt, use a legible font (such as Times New Roman, or Calibri) – do not make it difficult for the editors to read your work.
• Only one submission should be submitted for consideration for any single edition of Trove.
• RTF or Word document file.

Poetry

• Line limit: 50 lines (per poem).
• Layout of the text: double spaced, 12pt, use a legible font (such as Times New Roman, or Calibri) – do not make it difficult for the editors to read your work.
• Up to three submissions can be submitted for consideration for any single edition of Trove.
• RTF or Word document file.

Transmediated/multi-media art works/film/performance

• One entry per artist/group.
• Please use .mp4 format (h.264 encoding) file.
• Submissions can be sent in hard copy format to our postal address, or by dropbox. If you use dropbox please ensure that you include authorisation to our email address: [email protected] to allow us to access the file/s.
• Submission/s can also be considered via YouTube link/s by emailing Trove the YouTube url address.
• No more than 6 minutes.
• The release of any copyright issue is the responsibility of the artist/s.
• Statement detailing artistic and/or stylistic influences, inspiration, background, medium and technique relating to the work. Include a link to other work by the artist if one is available. Maximum 400 words.
  

Visual art

• Two images per artist/group.
• .jpg files only.
• The release of any copyright issue is the responsibility of the artist/s.
• Statement detailing artistic and/or stylistic influences, inspiration, background, medium and technique relating to the work. Include a link to other work by the artist if one is available. Maximum 400 words.

Music/sound

• Two recordings per artist/group.
• Please use .mp3 or .aac or .wav or .aiff files.
• No more than eight minutes.
• The release of any copyright issue is the responsibility of the artist/s.
• Statement detailing artistic and/or stylistic influences, inspiration, background, medium and technique relating to the work. Include a link to other work by the artist if one is available. Maximum 400 words.

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