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Aims and Scope

Students who are enrolled in a General Education Literature course at KSU during the calendar year prior to publication can submit work they completed for their course. FUSION accepts submissions in four categories:

  • Literary analysis (textual explication; short analysis; research essays) These submissions are normally between 500-5,000 words, double-spaced, where short analysis and explications range from 500-1,500 words and research essays from 2,000-5,000 words.
  • Creative writing (poems, short stories, myths, etc.) Submit up to five poems in one document. Short fiction should not exceed 3,000 words.
  • Multimodal (video, podcast, game design, etc.). There is no file size limit, but please use a wired connection to upload to avoid timeouts.
  • Visual arts (paintings, drawings, photographs, infographics etc.) Please submit files with at least 600 dpi.
  • Faculty-Mentored Spotlight. These submissions are nominated by a faculty member who will co-write with you about your assignment, your writing process, and why your project is an example of excellence in student writing. Only students who have been nominated by your General Education Literature instructor should submit to this category.
  • Reflective and Experiential: These submissions, which should not exceed 2,000 words, are projects based on literary course themes that engage with the real-world, such as community-based service learning/volunteering, or responses that connect literary texts to students’ personal lives in short response essays or discussion posts. Rather than primarily being focused on analysis, these projects describe social, material, cooperative, or physical learning outside the classroom and/or reflect on literary themes through lived experiences.

See Author Guidelines for details.

Submissions for each issue will be received during the calendar year and until March 1 of the following year. For example, a student enrolled in a General Education Literature course during the calendar year of 2023 can submit work from that class at any time during 2023 and up until March 1 of 2024. New issues will typically be published in late April or May of each year.

Note that editors do not read submissions during the Fall semester, so you can expect notification after March 1 of each year, regardless of when you submit.

Have you completed Composition I or II in the last calendar year? You can submit your work from those classes to our sister journal, Emerging Writers.