Submissions

Submissions to Arion are always welcome and encouraged. If there are any additional questions concerning submissions that aren’t addressed here, please do not hesitate to write us: arion@bu.edu.

Advice to Prospective Contributors

1. We are not looking for contributions that would obviously be at home in another journal. Arion seeks to publish articles that capture the interest of readers both inside and outside of professional academia. If you propose submitting a paper that has been rejected by one of the professional journals, we urge you to rewrite it. The fact that it wasn’t quite dull enough to be accepted there doesn’t mean that it is lively enough for Arion. The literary essay, rather than the usual academic article, is best suited to Arion’s purpose of integrating learning and imagination. We value most the contributor who speaks across the disciplines: the author who can write on Sophocles, say, in a way that engages the student of Shakespeare.

2. There are no strict limits on length and style—each submission to Arion should find its own length and its own voice. On some matters of formatting and citation, please confer the guidelines here. Relevant images are encouraged to accompany text, particularly in submissions that take a visual approach. Book reviews may be essay length and extend beyond the issues as defined in the book considered. Poetry, illustration, and other creative work is also welcome. Please keep in mind that Arion prints on a 5.25 in. x 8.25 in. page with roughly one-inch margins.

3. We assume, in our contributors, a marked preference for primary literature and a command of the secondary literature so easy that it does not need displaying. Endnotes (where required at all) should be brief and readable.

4. Greek, Latin, and longer passages from the modern languages should be translated. Translations (which may be either literal or interpretative) should be placed in the body of the text, immediately below the quotation. Passages in Greek and Latin should not be prolonged beyond the immediate needs of your argument.

5. Arion generally does not run previously published material and discourages simultaneous submission to other journals. We encourage potential contributors to familiarize themselves with back issues of the journal: building upon topics and themes already covered can be a boon, replicating them is undesirable.

6. The author’s name should appear only on a separate cover page, and nowhere else in the body or title of the article or the notes. Self-references should be camouflaged.

 7. Submissions should be sent in Word and PDF formats to arion@bu.edu. All submissions will be acknowledged. Current evaluation time is fewer than six weeks. Current publication waiting time is 1–6 months.