The Hemingway Review Contributor Guidelines

The following contributor guidelines are meant to be used in addition to information found on the main page of The Hemingway Review.

All manuscripts and queries should be sent to the Editorial Office: Dr. Susan F. Beegel, 14 Terhune Drive, Phippsburg, ME 04562. Phone and Fax: 207-389-2839, E-mail: sbeegel@aol.com 

To facilitate rapid distribution of your work to readers, please send three paper copies of your manuscript. The review process generally takes from 8 to 12 weeks. Regular mail and UPS are the best ways to send work to The Hemingway Review. We will acknowledge receipt of your manuscript with an e-mail.

Please do not send manuscripts by certified mail. Certified mail is held for signature at the post office, a time-consuming twelve-mile round trip from our editorial office. This can mean delays in retrieving certified mail, and such mail may be returned.

Your manuscript should be prepared for blind peer review. Make certain that your name and address appear on a detachable title page only. Failure to include your e-mail address can delay processing of your essay by several weeks.

Do not refer to yourself and your previous work in the first person, include your name with page numbers, or give other "clues" to your identity.

Use paper clips, not staples.

Please do not send a diskette or electronic file until your work has been accepted for publication.

You do not need to send an SASE or international postal reply coupons unless you expect the return of your manuscript. Stamps to defray the cost of correspondence are unnecessary but much appreciated. Work submitted to The Hemingway Review should not be under consideration elsewhere.

Work submitted to The Hemingway Review should not have been published elsewhere. This includes English translations of work previously published in other languages.

Articles should ideally be around 25 pages (6,250 words) inclusive of endnotes and works cited, and notes (short articles) not longer than 8 pages.

All book reviews are assigned by the editor—please inquire. We expect the articles we publish to show a wide familiarity with and to demonstrate a significant departure from existing Hemingway criticism. Enhance your chances for success by familiarizing yourself with the wide spectrum of Hemingway subject bibliography and particularly with work already published in the Review.

Accepted work must conform to the current edition of The MLA Handbook (parenthetical citation, discursive endnotes only, works cited). Please consult a recent edition of The Hemingway Review for nuances of style. To avoid errors of transcription in the final copy, it’s especially important that authors convert their own documentation to the journal’s house style.

Accurate typesetting will be facilitated by the following: Justify left-hand margins only. Turn off all headers and footers, changes of font and font size, italics, bolding, and other "bells and whistles." Double-space throughout, including block quotations, endnotes, and works cited. Use Courier, Arial, or Times Roman fonts—either 12 point or 10 cpi. As a general rule, avoid anything that smacks of "styling" or "desktopping" your typescript. All extraneous codes will have to be removed and replaced by the photocompositor, and errors may be introduced in this process. Simplest is best.

Underline to show italics. Authors are often curious about this rule—italics actually constitute a separate font, not a variation of an existing font, so each time you use them, the photocompositor has to remove and replace the font and then italicize. Removing and replacing italics in an entire issue can take hours of our time and introduce errors.

Authors of work accepted for publication are responsible for obtaining necessary permissions to quote from previously unpublished materials and published materials in excess of fair use. We are happy to consult with you about what permissions are required and to provide you with addresses of copyright holders. Do not write for permissions without a consultation.

It is the author's responsibility to provide photographs or digital images of agreed-upon illustrations and necessary permissions for their use. Illustrations will be returned upon publication. We are not responsible for loss of or damage to illustrations that occurs during the production process.

Authors of work accepted for publication are responsible for providing a 100-word abstract of the essay.

Authors will receive a free copy of The Hemingway Review upon publication and information about how to purchase additional copies or reprints.

It is the author's responsibility to provide electronic copy of his or her accepted work. Because this copy will be used directly by our photocompositor for typesetting, careful preparation of your electronic copy will help mitigate the introduction of errors into your work and avoid delays in publication.

Please submit final copy of your essay either by e-mailing a file or mailing a 3½ inch diskette in one or more of the following programs: any version of Wordperfect for DOS or Windows (preferred), Microsoft Word for Windows, ANSI or ASCII Generic Word Processor for DOS or Windows. Note that these DOS and Windows-based operating systems are sometimes referred to as IBM or PC programs.

If you are a MacIntosh user, please note that you must save your work in a Windows-compatible program before e-mailing a file and that diskettes must be IBM-formatted. IBM-formatted diskettes can be purchased singly at any computer supply store. Our office receives dozens of diskettes. Please label your diskette with your name, a telephone number or e-mail address where you can be reached, the name of your operating system, and the name(s) of your files. We regret that diskettes cannot be returned.

Please check to see whether your work was successfully transferred to the diskette before sending it to us. All too often we receive blank diskettes from authors who accidentally "copied" work to write-protected or unformatted diskettes. We strongly recommend the use of for-the-purpose diskette mailers. Diskettes mailed any other way are subject to crushing, demagnetization, etc. Including metallic objects such as paper clips in the same mailer can also damage diskettes.

Please title your file with your last name. We receive dozens of files titled "Hemingway Review essay" or some version thereof.