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Currently Accepting Submissions:
Arché (Boston University's Undergraduate-Run Journal of Philosophy)
Due: Ocotber 1st, 2026 12:00 a.m. EST
Submission Info: Papers can be 5,000 words maximum and all styles, genres, and traditions of philosophy are welcome. Students and non-students with any amount of philosophical training are encouraged to apply. We are open to all!
Submission Link: Arché - Submissions
Aporia (Brigham Young Universitiy's Undergraduate Philosophy Journal)
Due: October 2nd, 2026 at 1:59 a.m. EST
Submission Info: They welcome well-written, undergraduate papers on any philosophical topic. They prefer papers of approximately three to five thousand words. They accept only essays that are original, unpublished, and not in submission elsewhere. Authors must be undergraduates during the semester of publication.
They are also soliciting short critical notices (fewer than eight pages) responding to articles in the current and recent issues of Aporia.
Submission Link: Aporia - Submissions
Gadfly (Columbia University's Undergraduate Philosophy Journal)
Due: October 11th, 11:59 p.m. EST
Submission Info: This semester, their theme is "Cornucopia." They accept undergraduate submissions including philosophical essays, fiction, poetry, visual art, and other creative works engaging with philosophy.
Submission Link: Gadfly - Submissions
Foundations (University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate Philosophy Journal)
Due: January 10th, 2027
Submission Info: We invite undergraduate students from all institutions to submit original philosophical essays for consideration in our 2027 issue. Submissions are welcome across philosophical traditions and areas of inquiry, including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy.
Eligibility:
-Current undergraduate students
-Papers must be anonymized for blind review.
-Submissions must be unpublished, not under consideration elsewhere, and written without the use of artificial intelligence.
-All submissions must include the AI-use declaration specified in the attached CFP.
Submission Link: Foundations 2027 Call for Papers
Contact: upennfoundations@gmail.com
CFP (University of Chicago Philosophy Review)
Due: April 4th, 2027 (rolling)
Submission Info: The University of Chicago Philosophy Review is looking for reflections on Philosophical forms to be published on its online experimental section Meditations. They are looking for both experimentation and analysis of philosophical form.
In experimentation with form they are looking for philosophical inquiries written in a non-traditional format tackling any topic. This means socratic dialogues, scholastic structure, aphorisms, diagrams, and anything else of the sort is wanted.
Analysis on form is also welcome. This would look like more traditional philosophical essays tackling, analyzing, or questioning the format in which philosophy is done. Why do we default to the essay? Is there a better form in which to do philosophy? Questions such as this and more are encouraged.
Analyses and experimentations on form do not have to be related or submitted together. If you find it to the benefit of your argument to do so then you are more than welcome to, but The Review recommends you focus on one, lest one spreads their philosophical efforts too thin.
Pieces should be fewer than 1,500 words and be formatted in Chicago Style. Creative, experimental, and unorthodox writing is encouraged, so long as a high standard of philosophical rigour is maintained.
Submission Link: CFP - Submissions