Poroi encourages single submissions as well as proposals for special symposia or issues catalyzed by guest editors.  Poroi issues appear several times a year in electronic configurations suited to the substance of each work published.  All issues can be accessed through the journal’s site (http://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/) and the POROI site (http://www.uiowa.edu/~poroi/).  The journal announces publication of each new issue to extensive rosters of subscribers, and it reminds them periodically of earlier issues.

Contributors submit completed works (or proposals for special symposia and issues) in electronic form to the Poroi Editor, who uses anonymized electronic versions to seek the advice of peer reviewers on each prospective publication.  The Editor shares the reviews with authors.  To submit a work, simply attach it as an electronic file, preferably in MS Word, to an email for the Poroi Editor at john-nelson@uiowa.edu or poroi@uiowa.edu.

Poroi welcomes the submission of scholarly articles that feature rhetorical analysis or invention.  It also solicits contributions of occasional features.  As explained elsewhere in this Website, the journal’s features include film takes, multimedia inquiries, myth scapes, strategy studies, word tours, and rhetorical inventions.  The journal is open to proposals and submissions for other kinds of occasional features as well.  Scholars interested in working with the journal’s Editor to create symposia of several articles or whole issues on special themes should share their ideas as early as possible when planning related panels or conferences.

There are no lower or upper bounds of length for pieces that merit publication.  Instead the standards are excellence in communication for contributions of keen interest to the journal’s multidisciplinary audience.  Contributors should keep in mind that short and sweet suits online publication especially well.  Poroi is open to experiments in style and form.  It seeks to sculpt scholarship to take advantage of possibilities in electronic media.  It strives to publish plausible, well-turned works with significance for rhetorical inquiry.

Authors release their works for publication in Poroi.  But authors retain the copyrights for other uses of their works.  The journal asks only that authors acknowledge in subsequent works the publication of earlier versions in Poroi.

Assisting the Editor in the assessment of submissions are Associate Editors, who also provide advice on Poroi policies, and an international Editorial Board of distinguished scholars to augment the staff’s areas of expertise.  The Managing Editor works with the University of Iowa Libraries to facilitate the publication of each issue.  The Assistant Editor coordinates work by reviewers as they evaluate and authors as they refine submissions.  Guest Editors work with the Editor and Associate Editors to prepare special, topical issues as though these scholars were editing collections for a scholarly press.