How to Submit

The journal welcomes all critical approaches and publishes full-length articles as well as shorter notes, book reviews, bibliographical updates, panel discussions, and professional postings about conferences, calls for papers, scholarships, and other items of interest pertaining to Updike. Electronic submissions via email are preferable. Please send submissions to James Schiff at james.schiff@uc.edu.

Receipt of your manuscript will be acknowledged. Decisions take between 8 and 12 weeks. Submissions are reviewed by an editorial board comprised of Updike scholars and others knowledgeable on Updike and his writings. Work considered for publication is generally subjected to blind peer review by two outside readers.

Guidelines:

1. The journal welcomes essays of varying length, from roughly 10 pages, or 2,500 words, to 30 pages, or 7,500 words.
2. A brief abstract of approximately 50 words should accompany each submission.
3. Manuscripts should be double-spaced and conform to the current edition of the MLA Style Manual (parenthetical citation, discursive endnotes only, works cited).
4. Please provide author identification on a separate cover sheet.

Articles may also be submitted through regular mail. If regular mail is used, please submit 2 copies of the manuscript to:

Professor James Schiff
Editor, The John Updike Review
University of Cincinnati
248 Arts and Sciences Hall
2700 Campus Way
Cincinnati, OH 45221

Inquiries should be directed to:

Email: james.schiff@uc.edu
Telephone: 513–556–0930