Submission Guidelines

Inventio publishes three times each academic year: April 25, August 25, and November 25. 

Please read the submission guidelines carefully; your submission may be overlooked if you do not provide all the documents necessary. 

We accept submissions from all current undergraduate students, regardless of program, faculty, year, or school.

We do not accept any content that has been AI generated. 

fiction

  • 3,500 max word limit.
  • Must be original, unpublished.
    • Exclusive rights will be retained by Inventio up to two years after publication date (authors may not publish this piece anywhere else for two years); see the IPC 
  • Can be any sub-genre.
  • Videos (no more than 30 seconds long) can be embedded into any fiction piece. 

non-fiction

  • 3,500 max word limit.
  • Must be original, unpublished.
    • Exclusive rights will be retained by Inventio up to two years after publication date (authors may not publish this piece anywhere else for two years); see the IPC
  • Inventio is  looking for insightful and thought-provoking works of non-fiction 
  • Academic essays will not be accepted. 
  • Non-fiction work includes:
    • Personal Reflective Essays 
    • Literary Analyses 
    • Creative Non-Fiction
    • Articles (perspective, opinion, or commentary)

poetry

  • 5 poems max per submission.
  • Must be original, unpublished.
    • Exclusive rights will be retained by Inventio up to two years after publication date (authors may not publish this piece anywhere else for two years); see the IPC 
  • Combine all poems into one document and send as one file.
  • Can be any genre of poetry. 

all submissions

  • Submit your piece using the Submission Form using the Submit button at the bottom of the page.
  • Any piece written for a class assignment must have a grade prior to submission. A signed note from your professor needs to be submitted with the piece confirming your letter grade of B+ (75%) or above. 
  • Should include full name, email, and a maximum 50-word biography.
  • Only Microsoft Word and Google Doc files are accepted. Images must be PNG files. If submitting an MP4 or MP3 file, a transcript must be provided.
  • Submissions must be accompanied by a concept image that represents the theme of your piece. Make sure it is useable in the public domain or taken/created by you.
    • If you choose to have additional images in your piece, they must also be in the public domain or taken/created by you.
  • Provide a document with links to all sources used in your piece.

Before you submit, double check that you have submitted a minimum of five files 

  1. Submission
  2. Signed Inventio Publication Contract (IPC)
  3. 50-word author bio 
  4. Submission picture 
  5. List of sources for submission-related picture (Include Works Cited page, if applicable)

 

Additional Documentation if applicable—max of eight files 

  1. Signed Grade Validation Form
  2. Video file (if applicable)
  3. Audio file (if applicable)

after you submit

You will be notified if your piece has been accepted for publication ten days from the submission date.

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Land Acknowledgement

We would like to begin by acknowledging the Indigenous Peoples of all the lands that we are on today. While we meet today on a virtual platform, we would like to take a moment to acknowledge the importance of the lands, on which we each call home. We do this to reaffirm our commitment and responsibility in improving relationships between nations and to improve our own understanding of local Indigenous peoples and their cultures. 

York University’s land acknowledgement may not represent the territory that you are currently on, and we would ask that if this is the case, you take responsibility to acknowledge the traditional territory that you are on and its current treaty holders. 

York University acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations. The area known as Tkaronto has been care taken by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat. It is now home to many First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities. 

We acknowledge the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region.

From coast to coast to coast, we acknowledge the ancestral and unceded territory of all the Inuit, Métis, and First Nations people that call this land home. Please join us in a moment of reflection to acknowledge the effect of residential schools and colonialism on Indigenous families and communities and to consider how it is our collective responsibility to recognize colonial and arrivant histories and present-day implications in order to honour, protect, and sustain this land. 

In recognizing that these spaces occupy colonized First Nations territories and out of respect for the rights of the Indigenous people, please look for, in your own way, to engage in a spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.