Style Sheet
Eudora Welty Review manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word and should follow the MLA Handbook, 9th ed., with internal citations and a list of works cited.
- Essays should be approximately 7,500-10,000 words.
- Manuscripts should be double-spaced with one-inch margins.
- For the body of the essay, use Times New Roman, 12-point font, and single space between sentences.
- Avoid the use of quotation marks or italics for emphasis.
- For quotations that run more than four lines, set off from the text as an indented block with no quotation marks.
- Embed any necessary footnotes using the ‘insert Footnote’ function in Word. Footnotes should be reserved for explanatory comments and supplementary information.
- Contributors are responsible for the accuracy of their articles including the spelling of names, quotations, and bibliographical citations, which should be checked against their original sources before articles are submitted.
- Contributors are responsible for obtaining all necessary permissions upon acceptance of the essay.
- Capitalize South and North (when used as nouns), and use lowercase for southern and northern (when used as adjectives).
- Capitalize Black and White when discussing race (MLA capitalizes Black Lives Matter and defers to Merriam Webster and the Chicago Manual of Style on matters of capitalization that it does not directly address. Following these sources, we have chosen to capitalize Black and White.).
- Do not use ellipses at the beginning or ending of quotations. If an ellipsis joins two sentences, please use three periods with spaces between: “word . . . word”
- Use a comma before the last member of a series of three or more coordinate elements.
- Use “which” for nonrestrictive phrases and clauses and “that” for restrictive phrases and clauses.
- Use “such as” when giving examples and “like” when illustrating a similarity.
- Citations:
—Interviews with Welty should be cited according to MLA to Welty, not the interviewer, and listed under Welty in the Works Cited where the interview publication will be listed, such as Peggy Whitman Prenshaw’s Conversations or More Conversations.
—Whenever possible, contributors should cite texts in Library of America volumes of Welty’s works as the standard in the field. The Library of America uses Welty’s first editions of all her story collections, novels, and memoir, and includes “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” and “The Demonstrators” from Collected Stories, plus selected essays.
Submission Guidelines
The Eudora Welty Review publishes essays (7,500-10,000 words), notes (1,500-3,500 words), interviews, etc. on Eudora Welty’s life, writings, and photographs, and the cultural milieu and figures related to Welty and the aesthetics of her work.
Please follow all details of the stylesheet.
Contributors must secure permissions for images and for quotations beyond fair use.
Essay submissions should be accompanied by an abstract of 100-200 words and a list of 5 key words.
Submissions are due September 1st for the following year’s issue (September 1, 2023 for the 2024 issue). Submit Microsoft Word files as attachments to Dr. Pearl McHaney: pmchaney@gsu.edu. Inquiries are welcome.
Notification
EWR notifies authors by email that submissions have been received. Notification of the editor’s decision regarding publication will be sent in approximately 4–6 months.
Peer Review
An editorial team of three reviews each essay submission to determine if peer review is merited; blind essays are then sent to two scholars who are asked to accept as is, accept with revisions, deny, or revise and resubmit. With reviewers’ permission, anonymous comments may be shared with authors.
Payments
Eudora Welty Review contributors will receive a free copy of the issue in which their work is published. We encourage all our contributors to become EWR subscribers by the time of publication.
Proofs
Contributors will receive electronic page proofs for a final review for errors and minor changes.
