Style Sheet
EWR Manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word and should follow the latest MLA Handbook, with internal citations, footnotes, and a list of works cited.
- Essays should be approximately 6,500-10,000 words.
- Manuscripts should be double-spaced with one-inch margins.
- For the body of the essay, use Times New Roman, 12-point font.
- Embed any necessary footnotes using the ‘insert Footnote’ function in Word.
- In the Works Cited entries, remove hyperlinks and truncate urls (by removing the host).
- Contributors are responsible for obtaining all necessary permissions upon acceptance of the essay.
- Contributors are responsible for the accuracy of all quotations and citations.
- 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 ellipses appear in the middle of a quote, please use three periods with spaces between: “word . . . word.” If ellipses join two sentences, please use four periods with spaces between: “word. . . . word.”
- Interviews with Welty should be cited to Welty, not the interviewer, and listed under Welty in the Works Cited.
- EWR prefers that writers cite the Library of America’s Complete Stories, Essays & Memoir; or Harcourt’s Collected Stories and individual editions of the novels. The Scribner edition of One Writer’s Beginnings is also acceptable.
Submission Guidelines
The Eudora Welty Review publishes essays (6,500-10,000 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 Sarah Ford at sarah_ford@baylor.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.
