The Looking Glass always welcomes submissions for the following sections and columns:

Alice's Academy

The scholarly refereed section

Emerging Scholars and New Voices

The section specifically designed for students and professors to work together in creating publishable scholarship. In addition to giving students the opportunity to develop their scholarship, it allows them to participate in the logistics of submitting and revising articles. Papers may address any aspect of children's literature.

Jabberwocky

The column on children's literature in translation.

Mirrors and Windows

The column and readers' forum on children's literature published in the past five years.

Curiouser and Curiouser

The column on folk retellings.

My Own Invention

The column on teaching children's literature at all education levels.

Illuminating Texts

The column of author and illustrator interviews and articles

The Print Shop

The column about children's book publishing and technology.

Caucus Race

A column highlighting important children's literature and culture websites.

Submissions for Alice's Academy should be emailed to The Alice Editor. Submissions for all other sections and columns should be emailed to The Editor. Please check our submission guidelines and editorial policy for more information. For those interested in guest-editing an issue, please see the information below.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions to Alice's Academy, Emerging Scholars and New Voices, and Jabberwocky must be between 2500 and 4000 words and conform to current MLA citation standards. Submissions to all other columns must be between 1000 and 3000 words. All submissions should be emailed as rtf documents (save as rich text format).

Submissions to Alice's Academy will be peer-reviewed by at least two qualified reviewers, and a compiled report will be emailed to submitters within four weeks. If revisions are required, a revision schedule with individualized deadlines will be established by the editor. Although Alice's Academy accepts submissions year-round, the review process will not operate in June, July, August, or 15 December - 15 January. In each January issue of The Looking Glass a special topic is featured in Alice's Academy. Please see The Monitor for more information on these special topics. The deadline for submissions to Alice's Academy on a special topic is 1 September of the year preceeding the January issue's publication.

Submissions to Emerging Scholars and New Voices must be submitted by a professor, with the student's permission. Submissions should also include general suggestions (by the professor, the student, or both in tandem) on areas for expansion and/or revision for its published format. Papers may be returned with suggestions for revision by the student, working under the guidance of the professor. Final acceptance of papers is contingent upon the quality of the completed draft. Papers will be considered year-round, but primarily in the months of April, August, and December, and revisions must be made expeditiously.

Each year the April issue of The Looking Glass is a special issue. Please see The Monitor for more information on topics for these. The deadline for submissions to a special issue is 1 October of the year preceeding the special issue's publication.

The Looking Glass cannot accept simultaneous submissions or previously published articles. A brief biographical sketch will be required from authors of submissions accepted for publication. Published articles will be posted on the journal's website for at least three months, after which time they will be archived online.

If authors wish to incorporate illustrations into articles, authors must first have secured reproduction rights and paid any necessary fees themselves. The Looking Glass cannot secure reproduction rights or pay fees, and will not publish illustrations unless authors can provide written proof that these criteria have been met or that the illustrations in question are part of the public domain.

By submitting work to The Looking Glass, authors agree that they have read and will abide by the journal's submission guidelines and policies and editorial policies, as stated on the journal's website.

Editorial Policy

Essays and articles published in The Looking Glass may be reproduced for non-profit use by any educational or public institution; letters to the editor and on-site comments made by our readers may not be used without the expressed permission of that individual. Any commercial use of this journal, in whole or in part, by any means, is prohibited. Authors of accepted articles assign to The Looking Glass the right to publish and distribute their text electronically and to archive and make it permanently available electronically. They retain the copyright and, 90 days after initial publication, may republish it in any form they wish as long as The Looking Glass is acknowledged as the original source.

Guest Edit

If you have a lot of time and energy on your hands and wish to pour a lot of it into The Looking Glass, you may submit a proposal to guest edit an issue. Your proposal should contain a brief statement of its relevance, including the names of whichever five or more columns your issue will contain and the people whom you will ask to write them. Our editors and members of the editorial board will consider your proposal carefully and return to you with a decision within four weeks.

If your proposal is accepted, you will have up to one year to pull it together. The editors or column editor will arrange the call for papers for Alice's Academy, as well as manage the peer review process for whichever paper(s) you choose. Special columns such as Spyglass and the LG Acrostic will appear at the editors' discretion.

Please ensure that all submissions are submitted in rtf format (save as rich text format, for ease in HTML markup), including a brief biographical sketch of each contributor, to the The Editor prior to the issue's deadline. Please note that you are also responsible for writing Frame of Reference before the issue deadline.

The editorial policy does apply to these submissions, as it applies to all issues and columns that make up The Looking Glass. For more information, see our editorial policy.

Gossip for the MaD hAtTeR

Juicy tidbits of information may be submitted directly via email to H.R. MaDnEsS. If he is sufficiently intrigued, he will contact you to double-check the details.

The Looking Glass publishes three times each year. In order to produce a professional journal on time with a group of volunteers, section and column editors are asked to submit their finished work to the editor according to the following schedule.

Publication Date	Editorial Submission Deadline
2 January	15 November
2 April	15 February
2 September	15 June