Call for Submissions
Submit to the inaugural issue of Armarium! Armarium is an annual compendium collecting creative and artistic responses to the Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s collections. This first issue invites undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, visiting researchers and scholars, staff, and community members to respond to the current exhibit housed in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Sweetbitter: Literary Legacies and Afterlives of Sappho. Responses can take a number of forms from visual art to music to multimedia to creative writing to researched writing and beyond. These responses can encompass the exhibit as a whole or focus on individual items on display in the exhibit.
Submissions examining other aspects of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s holdings are also encouraged.
Artists, writers, and creators will be notified by March 16 whether or not their work will be included in this issue of Armarium.
Guidelines for Formatting your Submission
Visual Art: size language, file types
Music/Multimedia: creator is responsible for hosting the recording on a link that Armarium can access
Writing: submit all writing via .doc or .docx. For poems, please submit 3-5 poems, totaling no more than 7 pages total for consideration. For prose, please submit either one piece or a selection of flash pieces, totaling no more than 5 pages for consideration.
The submission form can be found here. Deadline for submissions is March 1, 2026.