Students enrolled in a course, minor, certificate, or joint specialization in the Department of English and Writing Studies from June to April of each year at Western University are invited to submit an experimental work. Your submission may include text, video, sound, images, etc.
If you aren't sure if what you have written is poetry or prose, fiction or creative nonfiction, or if it is a hybrid work that includes multiple genres, this is the category you should submit it in.
Include the following in the cover letter section of this submission form: your name, a third person bio, the title of your submission(s), the creative writing course in which you were enrolled from June to April, the course number, and the name of the professor.
There is no payment for publication.
Students enrolled in a course, minor, certificate, or joint specialization in the Department of English and Writing Studies from June to April of each year at Western University are invited to submit up to five poems.
Include the following in the cover letter section of this submission form: your name, your bio, the title of your submission(s), the creative writing course in which you were enrolled from June to April, the course number, and the name of the professor.
There is no payment for publication.
Students enrolled in a course, minor, certificate, or joint specialization in the Department of English and Writing Studies from June to April of each year at Western University are invited to submit one short story (up to 2000 words) for publication in Occasus.
Include the following in the cover letter section of this submission form: your name, your bio, the title of your submission(s), the creative writing course in which you were enrolled from June to April, the course number, and the name of the professor.
There is no payment for publication.
Students enrolled in a course, minor, certificate, or joint specialization in the Department of English and Writing Studies from June to April of each year at Western University are invited to submit one one creative nonfiction piece (up to 2000 words) for publication in Occasus.
Include the following in the cover letter section of this submission form: your name, your bio, the title of your submission(s), the creative writing course in which you were enrolled from June to April, the course number, and the name of the professor.
There is no payment for publication.
Students enrolled in a course, minor, certificate, or joint specialization in the Department of English and Writing Studies from June to April each year at Western University are invited to submit one short screenplay up to 10 pages or the first 10 pages of a feature screenplay for publication in Occasus.
Include the following in the cover letter section of this submission form: your name, your bio, the title of your submission(s), the creative writing course in which you were enrolled from June to April, the course number, and the name of the professor.
There is no payment for publication.