OLLI Newsletters
2025 Issues
Reflections Magazine
Click here to see our new 2024 Reflections Magazine. Email us at olliatusm@maine.edu for a physical copy!
Want to submit your work? Please see our submissions guidelines below
You must be an OLLI at USM member.
Your work must be original, created solely by you, and not previously published online or in print. If you have submitted this work to another outlet for consideration and are waiting to hear if it will be accepted by that outlet, please let us know as part of your submission.
You may submit up to four items for consideration, but only up to two will be published in print form. The remainder will be seen as part of a slideshow, video or on our website. Please let us know what “category,” you think your piece(s) fits in. Is it poetry or prose? Is it a performance piece or a video as art piece. Is it a photograph or a painting that is hyper-realistic?
As the submitter, you are responsible for getting the submission in the format required for submission.
Send all submissions to olliatusm@maine.edu.
Deadline for submissions for 2025 is May 14.
See below for who to address submission to, how to make a submission and who to contact with questions about submissions.
- Address the submission to olliatusm@maine.edu. Put Reflections Submission followed by your last name and first name, and the “category” in the subject line of the email.
Example: Reflections Submission, Rumpelstiltskin, Avery, photo
If you are submitting two works, please submit them separately.
- Copy and paste the following outline into your email with the appropriate info:
- My name as it should appear in the credits:
- The name of my work:
- The category of the work (Art, Photo, Poetry, Prose etc):
- My phone number:
- My e-mail address:
- This is the medium: add as much info here as you think might help us learn about your process, for instance–is it a digital image, is it a prose poem (We may edit for length.)
Not including the above–please keep text description of the works, statements about your process and your relationship to your process somewhat brief. No more than 40 words or so in total. But please do add the following:
- This is what inspired me to create:
- This is what inspired this creation:
Please keep text description of the works, statements about your process and your relationship to your process somewhat brief. No more than 40 words or so in total.
- Review the style requirements for submission as described below:
Written work
We prefer Times Roman or Garamond, 12 pt.
We accept files from Microsoft Word or Google Docs. We can’t accept Apple Pages or Adobe PDFs.
Poetry should be spaced according to how you want it seen when printed. If there are irregularities in the poetic content such as spelling or spacing–we will assume that this is how you want your poem to be seen and read.
Prose should be double-spaced and no longer than 1000 words.
Take a digital photo of the piece and send that in.
We accept these formats: jpg, jpeg, gif, tiff, png.
The definition of any photo must be sharp enough for publication. The size of a jpg or jpeg file is a good rule of thumb. Try to send a file that is at least 500 KB (Kilobytes). File sizes over 1 MB (Megabyte) are a bare minimum for full-page printing.
The size of a photo is usually found by displaying the photo and clicking on “Properties” or on an information icon that looks like the letter “i” in a circle. You can also consult your help files, visit a phone or computer store, or search online for how to determine the file size of a photo.
We accept these formats: jpg, jpeg, gif, tiff, png.
The definition of any photo must be sharp enough for publication. The size of a jpg or jpeg file is a good rule of thumb. Try to send a file that is at least 500 KB (Kilobytes). File sizes over 1 MB (Megabyte) are a bare minimum for full-page printing.
The size of a photo is usually found by displaying the photo and clicking on “Properties” or on an information icon that looks like the letter “i” in a circle. You can also consult your help files, visit a phone or computer store, or search online for how to determine the file size of a photo.
This year, as we consider video files for submission, we realize that this type of file may be too large for regular email. Please contact us if you have a video you’d like to share and we will work out the best way to handle transmission.
Address the submission to olliatusm@maine.edu.
Submissions will be acknowledged starting sometime in April and continuing into May.
Acceptance notices will be sent around late summer or early fall.
Thanks to all brave OLLI members who wish to share their creative work!