Each spring, the staff of the Great Plains Review designs posters and hosts events asking for your submissions to that years journal.

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Once writers, artists and all other producers of quality works submit their offerings to us and the deadline passes, they begin to sort through your submissions.

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Once each composition is filed into its specific folder, editors carefully read through it and look over it to see if it meets our standards or adds a different perspective into our journal.

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If a work has been selected and approved, we will notify the submitter via email and ask for a short biography, as well as information such as the title of each accepted piece. If an editor saw merit in your work but thought a minor edit or change could improve its quality or better it for our standards, he or she may email you asking for a minor adjustment.

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From there, editors will send final drafts of each work to the layout editor, who will assure each piece is assorted into genre and that the journal itself will maintain a professional look while hosting your works.

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After the layout editor has finished making the journal look the best he or she can, it will be looked over by the entire staff to ensure quality before it is sent in to be printed.

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Once the copies arrive, the Great Plains Review staff host a release party, and they take the time to relax before returning to work on the next year's edition.

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From the moment your work is sent in to the day it is in print, our editors make sure to carefully examine each piece and assure it is up to our and Sterling College's standards.