Clamor is open to submissions for the 2026 issue until January 31st, 2026.
Clamor is the University of Washington Bothell’s annual Literary and Arts Journal, representing the best creative practices in literary, visual, and media formats from across our campus and the surrounding community. It is open to UW and Cascadia students and teachers (present and former), and anyone within the UW and Cascadia community.
Our goal is to support and promote captivating, inspiring, and lively art in the forms of visual, literary, and media work.
In keeping with the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences’ core learning objectives, we advocate for art across all disciplines.
We provide artists and authors with publication opportunities through our print edition and our website. We foster community by reaching beyond the bounds of UW Bothell for creative works and by offering quality reading, viewing, and listening experiences to audiences outside the campus.
Please note: Clamor does not accept work that has been previously published. We accept pieces published on social media. We accept up to 3 submissions. Each submission should contain one individual work.
Please DO NOT submit simultaneous or multiple pieces within the same submission and document.
Please submit any written pieces in Times New Roman, single-spaced, 12-point font. Submit written works in WORD DOCS only. Please withdraw your work if it has been accepted elsewhere. Your work is not guaranteed to be accepted in the print or web journal. For clarification, email clamor@uw.edu.
As is standard with creative works, all rights revert to authors and artists after publication. Submitted works may be featured in future Clamor promotional campaigns without alterations unless given written/verbal consent from the artist.
Clamor publishes artistic content in all forms, including visual art, creative writing, foreign language works (with translations by the artist), media, video, and audio. We also accept recordings of original performance art and dance. Our print journal includes: poetry, prose, creative nonfiction, word art, personal essays, photography, painting, drawing, digital art, and visual images of sculpture, pottery, jewelry, and graphic art. Our web edition includes all this and media content: video, music, audio art, and experimental media, as well as documentation of performance work. Examples can be found on our website. Clamor’s Web Journal is home not only to mixed media pieces, but also a plethora of works to celebrate our creativity in the past and present for future years. NOTE: Please bear in mind that if your work is accepted, it will be published in either our print or online version, based on its format, length, and journal cohesion.
When signing up for a Submittable account to submit your work to Clamor, we recommend you use an email that will remain active until the Summer of the current year. Academic emails, including UWB emails, are often deactivated after graduation or when final courses are completed. Feel free to reach out with questions!
The Clamor editorial board acknowledges that we are on ancestral lands stolen from Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. UWB campus sits on the original territory belonging to the Sts’ahp-absh (Willow people), and we recognize the Indigenous peoples and nations of this stolen land as its original stewards and caretakers. We value and encourage submissions from Indigenous voices.
Welcome to the Creative Writing submission page for Clamor 2026! To ensure as seamless a submission process as possible, please adhere to the following submission guidelines. Pieces not following these guidelines will not be considered.
Written submissions should be in DOC, DOCX, with a maximum length of 1000 words or MAXIMUM of 2 pages, in Times New Roman, 12pt font.
(Please limit written prose and long-form writing works to 1000 words or less. Please limit poetry to a MAXIMUM of 2 pages.
*You may submit longer than 1000 words (for prose) or 2 pages (for poetry), but please note it will be considered for the web journal due to limited space of the printed journal.*
*If you are submitting a word art piece (ex. concrete poetry), or a poetry work that requires specific formatting, please go back and submit in VISUAL ARTS.*
Please title your file with your last name and an abbreviated work title as follows: account holder's LASTNAME_ABBREVIATEDTITLE.
Example: Snow Poetry for Winter by John Smith would be submitted as Smith_SnowPoetry.
We accept docx and doc.
If you have trouble uploading your file, please refer to the IT website or feel free to email us.
Please include the title and your name within the document. You may submit a maximum number of 3 submissions per author. Unpublished and original work only.
Content Warning: In keeping with our editorial mission, Clamor encourages submissions from diverse and emerging voices. We understand that art cannot be limited, so we request our submitters to add content warnings when necessary. As Clamor editors are a diverse set of individuals, specific content might be triggering for some people and we want to be considerate of everyone.
Note: Please be reassured that our decision towards your work won’t be affected if it has any content warnings. This is just for the editors to know in advance for any kind of triggers.
Content warnings include but are not limited to:
- Blood
- Hate speech
- Homophobia/transphobia
- Mental health
- Misogyny/sexism
- Pornographic content
- Racism
- Sexual assault
- Suicide
- Violence or self-harm
- OD/Drug Abuse
- Animal Cruelty
- Child Abuse
- Ableism
- Religious Indoctrination/Trauma
- Medical Trauma
Please specify if it's explicit or implied.
We look forward to seeing your work. If you need assistance, please reach out to the editorial team at clamor@uw.edu
Welcome to the Audio and Video submission page for Clamor 2026! To ensure as seamless a submission process as possible, please adhere to the following submission guidelines. Pieces not following these guidelines will not be considered.
Your submissions should be in MP3, M4A or WAV format, and maximum length 10 minutes.
Video submissions should be in MOV, MP4, or MPG format, and not longer than 10 minutes in length.
You must provide captions OR a transcript for your video. If a transcript, please submit it as a PDF alongside the Visual/Audio submission.
Please title your file with your last name and an abbreviated work title as follows: account holder's LASTNAME_ABBREVIATEDTITLE.
Example: Snow Movie for Winter by John Smith would be submitted as Smith_SnowMovie.
We accept mp3, m4a, wav, mp4, mov, and mpg files.
For accessibility, all audio and video submissions should include either a text transcript or captions. If you would like to submit, but are having difficulty with providing a text transcript or captions, please reach out to our Clamor editorial board at clamor@uw.edu
If you have trouble uploading your file, please refer to the IT website or feel free to email us.
You may submit a maximum number of 3 submissions per author. Unpublished and original work only.
Content Warning: In keeping with our editorial mission, clamor encourages submissions from diverse and emerging voices. We understand that art cannot be limited, so we request our submitters to add content warnings when necessary. As Clamor editors are a diverse set of individuals, specific content might be triggering for some people and we want to be considerate of everyone.
Note: Please be reassured that our decision towards your work won’t be affected if it has any content warnings. This is just for the editors to know in advance for any kind of triggers.
Content warnings include but are not limited to:
Please specify, for each item, if its presence in your work is explicit or implied.
- Blood
- Hate speech
- Homophobia/transphobia
- Mental health
- Misogyny/sexism
- Pornographic content
- Racism
- Sexual assault
- Suicide
- Violence or self-harm
- OD/Drug Abuse
- Animal Cruelty
- Child Abuse
- Ableism
- Religious Indoctrination/Trauma
- Medical Trauma
We look forward to seeing your work. If you need assistance, please reach out to the editorial team at clamor@uw.edu
Welcome to the Collaborative submission page for Clamor 2026! To ensure as seamless a submission process as possible, please adhere to the following submission guidelines. Pieces not following these guidelines will not be considered.
Please include a group name and/or individual names and bios/collaborative mission statement.
- Written submissions should be in DOC, DOCX, with a maximum length of 1000 words, in Times New Roman, 12pt font.
- Audio submissions should be in MP3, M4A or WAV format, and maximum length 10 minutes.
- Video submissions should be in MOV, MP4, or MPG format, and not longer than 10 minutes in length.
- Image submissions should be in JPG, or TIF format, in highest resolution available. GIF, PNG, and images that are not of sufficient resolution for printing will not be considered for inclusion in the print version of Clamor but may still be accepted for the online journal.
- If you have an image whose resolution is too low, there are third-party applications and services that will allow you to modify the image to our print standards. If you need assistance, please reach out to the editorial team at clamor@uw.edu.
Please title your file with your last name and an abbreviated work title as follows: account holder's LASTNAME_ABBREVIATEDTITLE.
Example: Snow Poetry for Winter by John Smith would be submitted as Smith_SnowPoetry.
If you have trouble uploading your file, please refer to the IT website or feel free to email us.
Please include the title and your name within the document. You may submit a maximum number of 3 submissions per author(s). Unpublished work only.
Content Warning: In keeping with our editorial mission, Clamor encourages submissions from diverse and emerging voices. We understand that art cannot be limited, so we request our submitters to add content warnings when necessary. As Clamor editors are a diverse set of individuals, specific content might be triggering for some people and we want to be considerate of everyone.
Note: Please be reassured that our decision towards your work won’t be affected if it has any content warnings. This is just for the editors to know in advance for any kind of triggers.
Content warnings include but are not limited to:
Specify if it's explicit or implicit.
- Violence or self-harm
- Sexual assault
- Racism
- Suicide
- Pornographic content
- Blood
- Mental health
- Homophobia/transphobia
- Hate speech
- Misogyny/sexismBlood
- Hate speech
- Homophobia/transphobia
- Mental health
- Misogyny/sexism
- Pornographic content
- Racism
- Sexual assault
- Suicide
- Violence or self-harm
- OD/Drug Abuse
- Animal Cruelty
- Child Abuse
- Ableism
- Religious Indoctrination/Trauma
- Medical Trauma
We look forward to seeing your work. If you need assistance, please reach out to the editorial team at clamor@uw.edu
Welcome to the Visual Art submission page for Clamor 2026! To ensure as seamless a submission process as possible, please adhere to the following submission guidelines. Pieces not following these guidelines will not be considered.
Image submissions should be in JPG or TIF format, in the highest resolution available (minimum 300 dpi) and scaled proportionally. GIF, PNG, and images that are not of sufficient resolution for printing will not be considered for inclusion in the print version of Clamor but may still be accepted for the online journal.
If you have an image whose resolution is too low, there are third-party applications and services that will allow you to modify the image to our print standards. If you need assistance, please reach out to the editorial team at clamor@uw.edu.
Please title your file with your last name and an abbreviated work title as follows: account holder's LASTNAME_ABBREVIATEDTITLE.
Example: Snow Photo for Winter by John Smith would be submitted as Smith_SnowPhoto.
We accept JPG, GIF and TIFF and PNG files.
If you have trouble uploading your file, please refer to the IT website or feel free to email us.
You may submit a maximum number of 3 submissions per author. Unpublished work only.
Content Warning: In keeping with our editorial mission, clamor encourages submissions from diverse and emerging voices. We understand that art cannot be limited, so we request our submitters to add content warnings when necessary. As Clamor editors are a diverse set of individuals, specific content might be triggering for some people and we want to be considerate of everyone.
Note: Please be reassured that our decision towards your work won’t be affected if it has any content warnings. This is just for the editors to know in advance for any kind of triggers.
Content warnings include but are not limited to:
- Blood
- Hate speech
- Homophobia/transphobia
- Mental health
- Misogyny/sexism
- Pornographic content
- Racism
- Sexual assault
- Suicide
- Violence or self-harm
- OD/Drug Abuse
- Animal Cruelty
- Child Abuse
- Ableism
- Religious Indoctrination
Please specify if it's explicit or implied.
We look forward to seeing your work. If you need assistance, please reach out to the editorial team at clamor@uw.edu.