Inside Out is an annual student-led art and literary journal that showcases photography, paintings, drawings, short stories, poems and essays by Jefferson students. All Jefferson students are welcome to submit their work to Inside Out.

Submissions are now open for Inside Out 2027!

Please include

• Writer's/Artist's name • Email address
• Phone number
• College, Program and Year of Graduation
• Title and Medium (for visual art) of each submission piece

Maximum six submissions per person. 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 are judged anonymously by a committee of Jefferson student editors.

Questions about the submission process? Contact Kirsten Bowen, Humanities Program Coordinator.

Interested in joining the Inside Out student editorial committee? We're looking for new members from East Falls and Center City. Editorial committee members must be current Jefferson students and commit to attending two editorial meetings during the Spring 2027 semester. For more information contact Emma Tam.

Submissions for Inside Out 2027 will open in Fall 2026 and will remain open until early January 2027. All Jefferson students are encouraged to submit prose, poetry, art, and photographs to be considered for Inside Out through Submittable. Maximum of six submissions per person. Visual art files should be submitted as a PNG at the HIGHEST RESOLUTION possible (minimum of 3MB). Literary submissions should be submitted as .doc files. A committee of Jefferson student editors will judge submissions anonymously. 

Questions about the submission process? Contact Kirsten Bowen, Humanities Program Coordinator.

Would you prefer to play a more curatorial role? We're looking for new editorial committee members from East Falls and Center City. Editorial committee members must be current Jefferson students and commit to attending two editorial meetings during the Spring 2027 semester. Serving on the editorial committee for Inside Out can be counted as credit for the Asano Humanities & Health Certificate as up to four student organization credits. Information about the editorial committee will be available at a later date.

Thinking of submitting but need to revise your work? Contact Pamela Walter at the Office for Professional Writing, Publishing, and Communication for help with submissions.

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 tutorial 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, 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.