Type Of Organization
Magazine
Mission Statement / Editorial Focus
Pulse is a living, breathing archive, a gathering space to uplift OCADU writers and community. Pulse is made by students for students to explore and experiment with language and text without restrictions. We commit ourselves to accepting many modes of epistemic understanding and ways of contributing to knowledge. We welcome messiness and roughness and imperfection as an authentic record of creative processes. This is a space for student experimentation: we are ever-growing, writing in the pulse.
Social Media Platforms Used
Instagram: ocadupulse
Is Your Group Affiliated With A University, Portal Or Other Agency?
yes
If Yes, Please Name
OCAD University
Primary Editor/Contact Person
Catherine Black
Contact Title
Faculty Lead
Submissions Policy
OCADU’s Creative Writing Program’s annual journal Pulse is officially open for submissions! We are looking for previously unpublished language based submissions (i.e.: written, performance, animated, etc.) of any genre from creative writing majors and minors.
Here are our guidelines:
Poetry: 1-5 poems (all in one document)
Prose: maximum 1200 words
Excerpts of longer works can be accepted as long as they can stand alone. All work submitted must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are okay, but please let us know as soon as your work has been accepted elsewhere so we may wish you congratulations!
Please include a brief cover letter in your submission with your name, pronouns, the genre of your submission, and a two-sentence author bio written in third person. Do not include your name or any other identifying information in your document or file name; however, do include any appropriate trigger warnings. Please note that we will not accept any graphic violence, graphic erotica, “trauma-porn,” work that is explicitly racist, homophobic, transphobic, antisemitic, islamophobic, or any other work designed to cause harm. Exercise your best judgment as to what work reflects both you as a writer as well as the community you write within.
OCAD University acknowledges the ancestral territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabeg and the Huron-Wendat, who are the original owners and custodians of the land on which we live, work and create.
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions
Yes
Simultaneous Submissions Accepted
yes
Reading Period
Year round
Reporting Time
weeks
Year Founded
2021
Average Print Run
150
Total Circulation
300
Number Of Issues Per Year
1
Total Number Of Issues Published
2
Back Issues Available
yes
Unsolicited Manuscripts Accepted
yes
Format
perfect
Publish Print Anthology?
yes
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