SUBMIT

How to Submit

Guidelines

  • there is no assigned topic for submissions

  • works do not have to be written in English (our team will offer a translated version of the piece, alongside the original, when it is published)

  • submissions to the Annual Writing Contest and Cultural Heritage Writing Award are automatically considered for publication in Trailblazer's Issue I

  • if you have already submitted a piece to the Annual Writing Contest and Cultural Heritage Writing Award, please do not submit the same piece here

  • simultaneous submission is allowed

  • Trailblazer accepts previously published pieces, as long as they are eligible for republication

  • poetry, fiction, and nonfiction (personal essay/ creative nonfiction) are all accepted

  • submissions of visual art (photography, digital art, etc.) are encouraged too

  • *screenplay submissions will also be accepted for Issue I

Eligibility

  • currently in middle or high school (aged 13-18)

Reading Period

  • always open

Submission Fee

  • none

Fiction, Screenplay, & Nonfiction:

    • font: Times New Roman

    • size: 12

    • margins: 1 inch at the top & bottom/ 1.25 inch at the left & right

    • maximum word count: 4000

    • there is no minimum word count

Poetry:

    • font: Times New Roman

    • size: 12

    • margins: 1 inch at the top & bottom/ 1.25 inch at the left & right

    • there is no maximum/ minimum word count for poetry

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