Welcome! All Jefferson students are encouraged to submit prose, poetry, art, and photographs for publication in the annual literary & arts journal, Inside Out. Explore past issues of Inside Out here.
You are invited to submit a maximum of six pieces. Please note that you must complete this form once for each submission. Submit visual art as separate PNG files at the highest resolution possible (minimum 3 MB); do not embed JPGs in Word documents. Submit literary work as a .doc file, not a PDF. Work accepted by Inside Out in a previous year is not eligible for resubmission.
Submissions will be anonymously judged by the Inside Out student editorial team. Not all submissions are accepted.
Read our AI Policy:
Acceptable and Unacceptable Use of Generative AI
The use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT is permitted in this submission for some purposes, described below, and not for others. Whether to use GenAI tools is a decision that impacts the quality of your critical thinking and professional growth. For a review of pros and cons to using GenAI tools, and strategies for using them successfully in an academic environment, read this tutorialLinks to an external site. developed by Jefferson’s Student Writing Center.
You may use GenAI tools to help find information on a topic. However, you should be aware of the potential for inaccurate information, incomplete information, biased information, and use of information by GenAI without authorization (plagiarism). If you include content (ideas and information) that was generated, in whole or in part, by GenAI tools in work submitted for Inside Out, you must identify, confirm, and credit a human-authored source for that information (i.e., a journal article) and explicitly declare your usage of the GenAI tool if it helped you find that source. Failure to include appropriate citations constitutes plagiarism and is a violation of the Academic Integrity Policy.
The use of GenAI tools is permitted in submission to Inside Out for the following activities:
- Searches for information on a topic
- Checking grammar and style
The use of GenAI tools is not permitted the following activities:
- Generating a draft of a writing submission.
- Writing entire sentences, paragraphs or papers to complete submission.
- Creating art or designs to be submitted
- Exceptions may be allowed for artistic statements on AI that integrate it into the submission at the discretion of the editorial board; please contact Kirsten Bowen, Humanities Program Coordinator, at Kirsten.bowen@jefferson.edu if you plan to submit a piece that integrates AI to initiate a review process.
Any submission that is found to have used generative AI tools in unauthorized ways will not be accepted, and you will be barred from future submission. When in doubt about permitted usage, please ask for clarification.
Questions? Please contact Kirsten Bowen, Humanities Program Coordinator, at Kirsten.bowen@jefferson.edu.
Submission deadline: Friday, January 8, 2027, 11:59 p.m.