Articles, Notes, and Forum contributions:

Submit two copies. Articles are usually at least 15 pages in manuscript. A note or Forum contribution may be much shorter. Leave your name off your submission. Provide contact information, including an e-mail address, in a cover letter. Send an SASE if you want your manuscript returned.

Generally, the 2nd edition (1998) of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing by Joseph Gibaldi and the 6th edition (2003) of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers by Joseph Gibaldi are the guides for preparation of manuscripts.

Flannery O'Connor Review articles follow MLA style, citing sources parenthetically and providing the reader a Works Cited list on separate pages at the end. Endnotes are used in only a few situations: to offer commentary or detail that will not fit elegantly into the text; to cite several sources at once; or to comment upon the quality of a source.

The preferred edition for quoting the works of O'Connor is Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works, ed. Sally Fitzgerald, New York: Library of America, 1988. (Note: We realize there are circumstances that call for the use of a different edition.)

Avoid indirect sources whenever possible. When an indirect source is necessary, make clear whether the indirect source provides a quotation or a paraphrase.

Document letters (correspondence) in MLA style. See Manual 6.8.13, p.207 Handbook 5.8.13, pp. 205-06. Dates of letters should be made clear, either on the Works Cited pages or in the text of the article.

Book Reviews:

Most reviews are solicited, but we will consider unsolicited reviews. Submit two copies. Provide all the sorts of information about the reviewed book that are displayed in the headings for the reviews in volume 2.

The Editor reserves the right to reject a review, even one that has been solicited.

Anyone interested in writing a book review appropriate for the Flannery O'Connor Review may send a resume to the Editor.

Mail submissions to:

Dr. Marshall Bruce Gentry, Editor
Flannery O'Connor Review
Department of English, Speech, and Journalism
Campus Box 44
Milledgeville, GA 31061

The length of a book review is about 1500 words. The content of a review should generally be balanced between evaluation and description, with some effort made to place the book in relation to previous works of a comparable sort.