Submissions Policy
Look in your heart and write.
The E-Coli accepts rants, poems, articles, stories, fiction, games, cartoons, photographs, and what have you, provided they serve to anatomize with energy or wit (preferably both) the strange goings-on at Malaspina University-College or the wider college community. If you read an issue or two, you'll know what we're looking for.
We are particularly interested in articles which pillage the past (plagiarism is encouraged) and forfeit the future, all in the interests of celebrating the present in the approved postmodern style--dancing among the ruins, retreating with style from the chaos, blowing some hot air upon the institutional corpsicular rigor mortis. Suggested solutions to ancient mysteries are also encouraged (e.g., What really went on in the cupboard in Dale Lovick's office in the old college? Why did Bill Holdom commit grand theft against the Social Science area? What happened to the Nigerian project? Where are those photographs of Ross Fraser in his Kiss costume?).
Recycled material is welcome. Any outstanding memos from years ago? What about poems, articles, diatribes, compromising photographs that have been published and forgotten? We acknowledge that this is an age of retro and thus all about a mélange of something old, new, borrowed, and blue.
The E-Coli will appear every now and then, sometimes as a major new issue (like this one), sometimes in the form of a Bulletin/Broadsheet/Viral Alert, as the need arises or the imagination prompts..
Articles are peer reviewed, an important consideration for those desperate to beef up a slim curriculum vitae now that we are accredited and getting well paid to produce something or other. The E-Coli retains an overweight, unemployed English duchess for such purposes, a well-educated lay about who, in exchange for two litres of Gilbey's (By Royal Appointment) Gin each day casts her vice-regal eye upon all submissions before making recommendations to the Editorial Review Committee.
The Editorial Committee consists of Pisanus Fraxi (Sub Editor), BA (Oxford, failed), Proctalgia Fugax, BA, MA, PhD (Editor in Chief), Akmar Del Piombo, Dip. Tech. (Technical Consultant).
This committee has been fully accredited by the AUCC (and on the first visit, too). An application for Canada Council funding is in the pipeline.
Please address all enquiries about submissions to johnstoi@mala.bc.ca