°Õ³ó±ðÌýHonors Journal is now accepting submissions for the 2025 issue!

°Õ³ó±ðÌýHonors Journal is now accepting submissions! Submit by December 31, 2024.Ìý °Õ³ó±ðÌýHonors Journal is an interdisciplinary scholarly journal that accepts submissions from all undergraduates who attend the University of Colorado Boulder. Â鶹ÒùÔº do not need to be a part of the Honors Program to submit their work or be selected for publication. °Õ³ó±ðÌýJournal is published in both print and digital editions.

Please submit through our .Ìý

  • Please Register (create a username & password) on the site to submit your work.
  • When you register:  For "Affiliation" you can list University of Colorado Boulder and/or a research lab with which you are affiliated.
  • Please Log in to submit additional work after you register.

Art & Open Media Submission Requirements:

  • In the box for the ABSTRACT:  Please write an Artist's Statement, Media Type,Ìý²¹²Ô»å Dimensions (height x width x depth in inches) of the artwork, as applicable.

  • Please submit all images as a high-resolution (at least 300 DPI) .jpeg file

  • Artwork in which the name cannot be removed will be excluded from the requirement to remove all personal information from the piece

General Submission Requirements:

  • Remove all personal information from submissions, including name, course name, professor name, etc.

  • Essays, papers, and thesis submissions must include proper citation format (e.g. MLA, APA, or Chicago), in the form of a bibliography or works cited page, footnotes, and/or in-text citations, as appropriate to the work.

  • Submissions of any length are accepted.Ìý Longer works submitted may be displayed in full in the journal's digital edition with only an abstract or short excerpt in the print edition.

  • Please fill out a separate submission form for each piece you submit.

  • All text submissions (papers, essays, or poems) should be submitted as an editable document (such as a Mircosoft Word document), not a pdf.

  • Only submit your own work (do not submit someone else's work on their behalf).

  • Do not submit any work for which someone else holds the copyright (e.g. images, text, music, video clips, etc.).

  • Please direct any questions to honors.journal@colorado.edu.

We accept submissions in each of the following categories:

  • Art
  • Creative Nonfiction
  • Environmental Design and Engineering
  • Fiction
  • Gender & Ethnic Studies (includes: text-based, visual, performance, spoken word, and other forms of work that address gender and racial-ethnic identity and/or oppression)
  • Humanities (includes: literature, philosophy, history, and other disciplines in the Humanities)
  • Natural Sciences (includes: biology, ecology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, geography, and other disciplines in the Natural Sciences)
  • Open Media (includes:  digital art, music or audio, video, dance, documentaries, film, musical or theatrical or dance performances, set design, advertising, and art produced through other means)
  • Poetry
  • Social Sciences (includes: geography, anthropology, sociology, international affairs, and other disciplines in the Social Sciences)

Please submit through our submission website (please Register—create a username & password—on the site to submit your work; Log in to submit subsequent pieces):Â