The Midway Review publishes a print edition once a quarter, as well as several articles available only on the web. We welcome submissions from all UChicago students and alumni, as well as faculty or anyone from outside the University of Chicago interested in writing. We try to broadly cover:
However, we will be happy to consider any other article or essay proposals that do not fit within these categories but are still relevant to current culture and politics. There is no word limit for submissions, however we would like them to be at least 1,000 words in order to allow for the full development of a topic. Submissions should include the author's year and major, or other relevant biographical information if the author is not a UChicago student. Please cite fully with endnotes rather than footnotes. We do not accept submissions that have been published elsewhere unless they have undergone substantial revision.
We are specifically looking for articles that are both informed and accessible to a generally educated audience. We do not accept academic papers submitted for courses, and we discourage submissions which rely heavily on discipline-related jargon and the citation of outside sources. Our interest is in original argument which may incorporate and consider major writers and thinkers, but does not summarize or rehash their arguments. We are also looking for short, reflective personal essays on pertinent cultural and political topics. In brief we are looking for articles--within the broad themes outlined above--which are clear, articulate, well-argued, and which are accessible and interesting to non-specialists.
To get a better sense of what types of articles are of interest to The Midway Review, please review past issues, which can be downloaded as PDF's from our Archive.
We also welcome letters to the Editor, which should also be submitted by e-mail. Please limit your letter to five hundred words.
The deadline for submissions to be considered for the Winter 2010 issue will be
Wednesday, January 27th by midnight.
Instructions for Submitting
It would be helpful if you sent us an email about your intended submission in advance.
To submit, e-mail the article as a Microsoft Word attachment to the Editor. We do not accept the following electronic formats.
Please convert all electronic document formats to the *.doc format (Microsft Word 97 - 2003). If you are uncertain about these instructions concerning electronic formats, please write to the Editor for clarification.
We require biographical information for articles we print. Rest assured that this information in no way prejudices (positively or negatively) the evaluation of your article. A list of the biographical information that we require can be found here. Please send this information in an e-mail to the Editor.
All submissions must include a title. If the submission is a book review, please also include the following information: