Submit!

Thank you for your interest! We are currently accepting submissions for the Spring 2026 issue of Tortoise.

To submit your work for Tortoise, see the instructions below:

Tortoise invites undergraduate students and graduate students currently affiliated with Princeton University to submit their academic writing for consideration to be published in Tortoise. We solicit academic writing from all disciplines – the humanities, the social sciences, the natural sciences and engineering – and publish excerpts along with reflective commentary about the writing process. Our goal is not only to share student writing with a wider audience, but also to demonstrate how it works.

2026 Issue Submission Deadline

The Tortoise editorial board will accept submissions for the Spring 2026 issue through Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

How to Submit

Please complete this form to submit your work for the Spring 2026 issue of Tortoise.

You’ll be asked to provide the following:

• Your name, netID, and class year
• The course/project for which the paper was written
• A brief note highlighting what you consider to be the most successful element of your piece and why
• Your submission, uploaded as a Word document with all identifying information removed (such as your name, your instructor’s name, and the course title)

There is no word or page count limit. Most essays selected for publication will be excerpted to showcase a specific element. If your submission is accepted, it is expected that you will work in collaboration with a member of the Tortoise editorial team to produce an excerpt of your submission for publication.

Additionally, an author may submit as many essays as they wish, as long as they were written during their academic career at Princeton.

To get a sense of the kinds of essays that have been published in the past, please refer to articles published in our previous issues. The editorial staff considers all submitted essays through a blind review process.

If you have questions, please write to us at wcjournal@princeton.edu. Please note that we are not able to accept submissions via email. Please submit your work using the form linked above.