Notice:

The Watermark Journal is switching to an annual release schedule from it’s previous bi-annual schedule. We will now be publishing at the end of each Fall semester, which also means there will be no Spring issue for the journal this year. Apart from this, there are no changes to submission guidelines; think of this change as just combining the Fall and Spring issues into one. We still accept submissions year round, so don’t hesitate to send us your work! Thank you.

The Watermark Journal is UMass Boston’s student run literary arts journal. Since 1979 we have celebrated the work of students, staff, alumni and community members by sharing their pieces with the campus and the world. Our primary focus is nurturing emerging writers, artists, and publishers as they make their way through this weird and scary thing called life.

We accept submissions year-round (see below for details). Our doors are open to all members of the university's community, and we welcome submissions of poems, prose, opinions, essays, critiques, acts of plays, photographs, paintings, sketches, doodles, screenshots, or maybe a creative work we haven’t thought of before. Take a chance, we’re open minded.