Escalating Registers is a project. We want to launch a magazine for high school and college students. Our focus is on education – not just the classroom and lecture type – but in the way where doing something or being somewhere has made someone into the person they are today. Be sure to read what we publish to get an idea of what we’re looking for.

We’re lucky that our staff is also a bunch of high school and college students. So, while the magazine we’re making is for people our age, we don’t expect (nor do we write imagining) we speak to or for a particular generation. If that happens, it’s just a fortunate correlation.

We started this believing people of all ages have the capacity to be equally insightful, and at times spectacularly stupid. We want the smart stuff. If this means taking submissions from someone past their 20s, why not? If you’re younger, what’s stopping you? The essayist Cynthia Ozick, now 85, put it another way: “Generations, yours and mine, are broader and roomier and more flexible than that.”

Some Guidelines Before You Submit:

We have specific word counts depending on the type of submission. But rules are made to be broken. i.e. If more words are needed, prove it. Do so at your own risk. It may make us think we probably should be crueler about word counts and that sort of thing.

We can’t – sorry. (See: “we’re lucky that our staff is also a bunch of high school and college students.”)

We cannot accept

Have very specific criteria and are not treated the same way as submissions – read those carefully if you’re applying. Good luck!