Submissions

Submissions

Mississippi Quarterly welcomes non-simultaneous submissions of original, unpublished scholarship in the humanities and social sciences dealing with the US South broadly defined. Please allow two months from the acknowledgment of receipt to inquire about the status of a submission. The journal also publishes book reviews and review-essays by invitation. 

Specifications

  • Please submit manuscripts via email attachment to missq@missq.msstate.edu with “MQ submission” in the subject line.
  • Please include an abstract of approximately one hundred words with your submission. 
  • Book review queries should go to the associate editor (rmw107@msstate.edu).
  • Submissions should be in the range of 6,000 to 10,000 words. Send a query to the managing editor (lew86@msstate.edu) regarding submissions (notes or essays) that fall outside of this range.