Submit a Piece
Whether you have a point of view to argue for, an area of the philosophical landscape to survey, a short story to tell, or just about anything else philosophy-related, we would love for you to submit your piece with us! We publish pieces in periodic issues, approximately every few weeks to couple of months.
Please note that for the time being, we are restricting submissions to those who have shown up to at least one in-person meetup. Information about these meetups can reached through our main website: https://www.philosophynyc.org.
Specific Requirements for your Piece
1) Your piece must be philosophy-related. This journal is not for asserting raw political opinion about current events, documenting nonphilosophical minutiae of your personal life, etc. If you want to do this, we'll see you on Facebook :)
2) Your document should be typed in legible font and submitted as a Word Doc or Google Doc (no PDFs!). Word limit is 200 word minimum, 8000 word maximum. These parameters are approximate—this is not a job or school application! :>)
3) Make sure your piece is free of typos and grammatical errors. We are not planning on doing spellcheck, but in the case of blatant errors, we may ask you to do this rather than risk a scandal from the Higher Grammarians.
4) If you are writing a longer-form non-literary piece, we suggest you include an abstract: a one-paragraph summary of your article at the beginning of the piece. This will give readers a sense of why they should read the piece, and it will make your own writing easier by helping to clarify your thoughts.
5) Absolutely no plagiarism. Include citations as needed, whether in-text or bibliographic.
The Submission Process
Once you have something you'd like to submit, you can email it as a Word Doc or Google Doc to philosophytablejournal@gmail.com. Make sure the piece fits the requirements listed above. We will get to it as soon as we can and reach out to you with further information. In your submission email, please include:
1) Your name as you'd like it to be shown on the published piece, along with a short 1-2 sentence author bio. If you'd like us to link to a blog/webpage with more of your writing, we'd be happy to do so, but we will not link to businesses/startups.
2) A sentence or two telling us what you're submitting, and why it is important to you.
3) If your piece is a response or accompaniment to a previously published piece, whether yours or someone else's, include a link to that piece.
4) An indication of which of the following stylistic options you think best characterizes your piece (it does not need to be a perfect match):
•Persuasive: pieces arguing for a specific position or point of view.
•Thematic: pieces exploring a certain area of, or topic within, philosophy.
•Literary: poetry, stories, philosophical dialogues, etc.
•(Auto)biographical: philosophically relevant writing on your own life, or someone else's.
Any questions and concerns about submission can be sent to our email, philosophytablejournal@gmail.com.