Are you a UBC student looking to be published? If you are an academic, creative writer or multimedia artist, The Garden Statuary would love to see your work! Submissions are now open for our 2025/2026 Spring Issue! Email us your submissions before Friday, February 6th at 11:59 pm PST!
We have two submission deadlines, one for our Winter Issue and one for our Spring Issue. Both issues will are published online, with a combined yearly edition published later in the year.
Accepted Genres
- academic essays
- prose fiction and nonfiction
- poetry
- multimedia
- photography
Please reach out to us at thegardenstatuary@gmail.com if you are interested in submitting work in another genre or medium.
Eligibility and Inclusivity
Submissions are open to all UBC undergraduate students from both Vancouver and Okanagan campuses. We are dedicated to publishing excellent undergraduate work, and we are also mindful of the traditionally exclusive nature of academia.The Garden Statuary is especially eager to receive submissions from traditionally underrepresented voices, including those from Indigenous people, people of colour, queer people, people from lower income backgrounds, neurodiverse people, and people with varying abilities and disabilities. If you have any concerns about the accessibility of our submission process and publishing process, please reach out to us and we will do our best to find solutions and accommodations to support you!
Timeline and Deadlines
We are currently accepting content submissions for our Spring Issue! Please follow the instructions below and submit your content by Thursday, February 6th at 11:59 pm PST.
How to Submit Your Work
Students are invited to submit up to FOUR works per semester in any genre or combination of genres.
Please email your work to thegardenstatuary@gmail.com with the following format:
- Submission – Your Name
If you plan to submit more than one piece, please attach each work as a separate document rather than one combined file. We prefer receiving documents in a Word document format for ease of editing and review, but other file types can also work provided we are able to read the work. If you do not have Microsoft Word, please submit your work in another format that will allow us to clearly view, copy and paste.
The genre of your piece should be included in the document’s file name or stated within the body of your email. For example:
- Prose Submission 1 – Your Name
- Poetry Submission 1 – Your Name
- Poetry Submission 2 – Your Name
- Academic Submission 1 – Your Name
Please remove your name and any other identifying information from all pages of your submissions. All submissions are reviewed anonymously to prevent bias during the selection process.
Submission Guidelines
Please make sure your work adheres to the following guidelines before you submit. All submissions must also follow UBC’s procedures regarding academic integrity.
- Academic Essays should be in DOC or DOCX format, a minimum of 3 pages and a maximum of 11 pages per submission, not including your works cited. Formatting should ideally be double-spaced, 12 point font with 1 inch margins. The topic should relate to English literature or language studies. We ask that you cite your sources in MLA style.
- Creative Literary Work including prose, poetry, and nonfiction should be in DOC or DOCX format and a maximum of 15 pages per submission. Prose should ideally also be double-spaced, 12 point font with 1 inch margins.
- Visual Art and Photography should be in JPEG or PNG format. We accept and welcome a series or body of work. Please include an artist statement of 200 to 500 words per submission.
Please note that literary work must have not been published before; however, we do accept visual art and photography that has been previously published if the previous publication date was at least 90 days before our own publication date. See our copyright section for more info.
Copyright and Publication Agreement
If your submission is accepted to The Garden Statuary, we will ask you to complete our literary publication agreement. Our agreement focuses on protecting your rights as a contributor and our rights as your publisher. Please feel free to read through a copy of our current agreement and let us know if you have any questions! You can reach out to us at thegardenstatuary@gmail.com and we will get back to you as soon as we can.