STYLUS is looking for original, unpublished short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, memoir, two-dimensional art (drawing, painting, collage, etc.), and photography. Any high school senior or any student currently enrolled at a college in the SC Technical College System is eligible to submit. Publication is subject to verification of your student status at the time of submission. Only Midlands Technical College students are eligible for the annual literary and art awards.
Our regular reading periods are September 1 through December 10 and January 10 through March 10.
We do not accept hard-copy submissions. For production reasons, we can only take emailed submissions that comply with the following guidelines:
Email your submission to stylus@midlandstech.edu as an attachment (document or image file). On the subject line of your email write either "Poetry Submission," "Prose Submission," or "Art Submission." In your email message, please include the following: (1) your full name (with your MTC ID number, if you are a Midlands Tech student); (2) your area code and phone number; (3) your school institution; (4) the business email address of a faculty member or administrator who knows your work.