Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The work is in English.
• The work has not been previously published.
• If the work is a translation, it has not been previously published.
• If the work is a translation, the submitter certifies that they have secured all necessary permissions and/or rights necessary.
• If this work is being submitted to multiple publications simultaneously, the author agrees to notify the editors immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere.
• The work is being submitted as a single Word document (.doc or .docx).
• Poetry submissions are formatted appropriately, and use a 12-point font.
• Fiction and creative nonfiction works are double-spaced and typed in 12-point font.
• We consider online submissions only. Writers who do not have access to the Internet – those incarcerated, for example – may submit paper submissions to Vince Omni, McKnight Doctoral Fellow, Florida State University, 329 Williams Building, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1580.

Author Guidelines

SoulClap is now accepting original, unpublished work from African diasporic writers inspired by, or situated in, Black Joy and nature. We invite work that balances the pain and injustice caused by oppressive systems with joy – especially joy experienced in green and blue spaces. Such pieces might be set, or inspired by, mountains, forests, oceans, rivers, parks, and trails. We are particularly interested in writing that explores these spaces as potential sites of rest, restoration, and resistance.

Accepted genres include:

• Poetry: 3-5 poems, not to exceed a total 10 pages
• Short fiction: up to 2,000 words
• Creative nonfiction (including autoethnography): up to 2,000 words

Submission Guidelines:

• The submission has not been previously published.
• Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but please notify us immediately if the work is accepted by another publication.
• Prose should be typed, double-spaced in 12-point font.
• The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font
• We consider online submissions only. Writers who do not have access to the Internet – those incarcerated, for example – may submit paper submissions to Vince Omni, McKnight Doctoral Fellow, Florida State University, 329 Williams Building, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1580.

Plagiarism Policy 

SoulClap will not publish manuscripts where plagiarism or text recycling has been identified. All manuscripts are checked for plagiarism using the Crossref Similarity Check / iThenticate service. Common examples of plagiarism include but are not limited to verbatim copy, improper or failure of attribution, and text replication. For further guidance on types of plagiarism and how to avoid them, authors should consult the interactive chart provided by iThenticate.

AI Policy

SoulClap does not accept work generated by artificial intelligence.

Copyright Notice

SoulClap provides immediate public access to its content on the principle that making creative and scholarly works freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. There are no processing charges, submissions fees, or any other costs required of authors and contributors to submit their work to this journal.

SoulClap contributors grant the journal a non-exclusive license to publish but otherwise retain the copyright in any original work that they publish in the journal. As such, readers must obtain permission from SoulClap contributors before sharing or reusing their works for any purpose that is not covered under the Fair Use Doctrine (17 U.S. Code § 107 | https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107)

Because SoulClap contributors retain the copyright in their works, they also retain the right to enter into publishing or licensing agreements with other entities that may be interested in publishing their work in the future. For example, if an author of a poem published in SoulClap wishes to include that poem in a published anthology of their poetry, they have every right to do that. In such cases, the Editors ask that authors credit SoulClap as the publication in which their work was originally published.

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