The Garfield Lake Review

2021 Edition: The Garfield Lake Review prides itself in accepting a wide selection of fiction, poetry, and visual arts from the Olivet community and beyond. This year’s GARF is looking for submissions that follow the theme of duality. Send us your unexpected endings, your highs and lows. Send us anything juxtaposed between light and darkness. Living is a thrill - show us how it is for you.

We accept art in any form that may be reproduced on a page. We are looking for work that is engaging and striking. Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, photography, and other art are all welcome. All submissions are reviewed anonymously, regardless of form, which assures that no author will be judged by race, creed, sexual orientation, or political ideology.

Technical Details

• Prose submissions should be double-spaced and not include your name in the body, header, footer, or file name.
• We accept files in the following formats: docx, doc, and rtf. Submissions with strong visual components like comics or graphic narratives should be submitted as .jpg or .png files.
• Please name your files with your submission's title (NOT your name) -- file names like "Story 1" make file management difficult. Prose submissions are limited to 3000 words. We do accept excerpts of longer work and may publish the longer piece on our website--please include and label the excerpt and the entire work in your submission.

Multiple and Simultaneous Submissions

• Individuals may submit up to five pieces total, in any combination of media. If your pieces are the same genre, you may put them in the same submission. All pieces will be reviewed individually.
• Our review time is short: we will make decisions by the beginning of December, so we ask that you wait until you hear back from us before submitting your work elsewhere. However, please let us know immediately if your work is no longer available.

The Garfield Lake Review is the annual literary and visual arts magazine produced by Olivet College students, and it is a proud member of the Olivet College Media Board. We produce a print journal and post an online edition on our website. Contributors in the continental U.S. may receive a complimentary copy and purchase additional copies. Other contributors may pay shipping and receive their copy.

The Garfield Lake Review prides itself in accepting a wide selection of fiction, poetry, and visual arts from the Olivet community and beyond. Our theme this year is seasons. While this can certainly pertain to the physical four seasons of the year, it also includes anything that involves movement, growth, change, or progression.

We accept art in any form that may be reproduced on a page. We are looking for work that is engaging and striking. Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, photography, and other art are all welcome. All submissions are reviewed anonymously, regardless of form, which ensures that no author will be judged by race, creed, sexual orientation, or political ideology.

Technical Details

• Prose submissions should be double-spaced and not include your name in the body, header, footer, or file name.
• We accept files in the following formats: docx, doc, and rtf. Submissions with strong visual components like comics or graphic narratives should be submitted as .jpg or .png files.
• Please name your files with your submission's title (NOT your name) -- file names like "Story 1" make file management difficult. Prose submissions are limited to 3000 words. We do accept excerpts of longer work and may publish the longer piece on our website--please include and label the excerpt and the entire work in your submission.

Multiple and Simultaneous Submissions

• Individuals may submit up to five pieces total, in any combination of media. If your pieces are the same genre, you may put them in the same submission. All pieces will be reviewed individually.
• Our review time is short: we will make decisions by the beginning of December, so we ask that you wait until you hear back from us before submitting your work elsewhere. However, please let us know immediately if your work is no longer available.

The Garfield Lake Review is the annual literary and visual arts magazine produced by Olivet College students, and it is a proud member of the Olivet College Media Board. We produce a print journal and post an online edition on our website. Contributors in the continental U.S. may receive a complimentary copy and purchase additional copies. Other contributors may pay shipping and receive their copy.

*** Regular Submissions closing October 6th***

*** The University of Olivet students submit until October 13th***

The Garfield Lake Review prides itself in accepting a wide selection of fiction, poetry, and visual arts from the Olivet community and beyond. This year’s theme is humanity. Through growth, emotions, relationships, and accomplishments, we show what it means to feel human. This theme is meant to be ambiguous; how do you interpret the human experience?

We accept art in any form that may be reproduced on a page. We are looking for work that is engaging and striking. Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, photography, and other art are all welcome. All submissions are reviewed anonymously, regardless of form, which ensures that no author will be judged by race, creed, sexual orientation, or political ideology.

Technical Details

• Prose submissions should be double-spaced and not include your name in the body, header, footer, or file name.
• We accept files in the following formats: docx, doc, and rtf. Submissions with strong visual components like comics or graphic narratives should be submitted as .jpg or .png files.
• Please name your files with your submission's title (NOT your name) -- file names like "Story 1" make file management difficult. Prose submissions are limited to 5000 words. We do accept excerpts of longer work and may publish the longer piece on our website--please include and label the excerpt and the entire work in your submission.
• The only guideline we have content wise is that we would prefer works that do NOT contain epic acts of gore, hate crime, or hate speech.

Multiple and Simultaneous Submissions

• Individuals may submit up to five pieces total, in any combination of media. If your pieces are the same genre, you may put them in the same submission. All pieces will be reviewed individually.
• Our review time is short: we will make decisions by the beginning of December, so we ask that you wait until you hear back from us before submitting your work elsewhere. However, please let us know immediately if your work is no longer available.

The Garfield Lake Review is the annual literary and visual arts magazine produced by The University of Olivet students, and it is a proud member of thr Olivet College Media Board. We produce a print journal and post an online edition on our website. Contributors in the continental U.S. may choose to receive a complimentary copy and purchase additional copies. Other contributors may pay shipping and receive their copy.

***SUBMISSION PERIOD EXTENDED: Regular and University of Olivet Submissions now closing SEPTEMBER 27TH AT 11:59PM!***

The Garfield Lake Review prides itself in accepting a wide selection of fiction, poetry, and visual arts from the Olivet community and beyond. This year's theme is “Coming of Age." As we grow older, we begin to lose the childhood innocence that we so desperately once wanted to get rid of. We begin to find ourselves and face challenges that introduce us to adulthood. For this theme, we are looking for pieces that illuminate those thresholds that are crossed when we move from one phase of life to another.

We accept art in any form that may be reproduced on a page. We are looking for work that is engaging and striking. Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, photography, and other art are all welcome. All submissions are reviewed anonymously, regardless of form, which ensures that no author will be judged by race, creed, sexual orientation, or political ideology.

Technical Details

• Prose submissions should be double-spaced and not include your name in the body, header, footer, or file name.
• We accept files in the following formats: docx, doc, and rtf. Submissions with strong visual components like comics or graphic narratives should be submitted as .jpg or .png files.
• Please name your files with your submission's title (NOT your name) -- file names like "Story 1" make file management difficult. Prose submissions are limited to 5000 words. We do accept excerpts of longer work and may publish the longer piece on our website--please include and label the excerpt and the entire work in your submission.
• The only guideline we have content wise is that we would prefer works that do NOT contain epic acts of gore, hate crime, or hate speech.

Multiple and Simultaneous Submissions

• Individuals may submit up to five pieces total, in any combination of media. If your pieces are the same genre, you may put them in the same submission. All pieces will be reviewed individually.
• Our review time is short: we hope to make decisions by the beginning of December. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately if your work is no longer available because it has been accepted elsewhere.

The Garfield Lake Review is the annual literary and visual arts magazine produced by The University of Olivet students, and it is a proud member of The University of Olivet Media Board. We produce a print journal and post an online edition on our website. Contributors in the continental U.S. may choose to receive a complimentary copy and purchase additional copies. Other contributors may pay shipping and receive their copy.