Avenues Journal
A Multidisciplinary Journal for Emerging Scholars
What is Avenues?
In 1987, Casper College launched its first edition of Challenge Magazine, a display medium to honor academic excellence and endeavor at Casper College. Challenge, run and edited by longtime Casper College instructor Arlene Larson and other faculty, ran from 1987 to 2003, publishing student work from a variety of courses. It was briefly revived in 2007, only publishing for a few years thereafter. Challenge served as an opportunity for students to demonstrate their academic prowess and highlight success at Casper College. Copies of Challenge were archived by the Goodstein Foundation Library. View these editions here.
In 2024, the Casper College Writing Center embarked on a mission to revive Challenge in a new and expansive way, carrying on its mission to honor academic excellence at Casper College. This renewal, Avenues: A Multidisciplinary Journal for Emerging Scholars, is managed by the Writing Center and seeks to publish individual work from every academic discipline. With the core values of research, innovation, scholarship, excellence, Avenues honors the legacy of Challenge and the aspirations of emerging scholars at Casper College.
If you have any questions about Avenues, either call the Writing Center at 307-268-2610 or email Avenues at avenues@caspercollege.edu.
Online, Archived, and Printed Editions
Avenues is a freely accessible and primarily online academic journal, accessible via the Casper College Writing Center website. Archived editions of Avenues will be available through the Goodstein Foundation Library. Printed editions of Avenues are available upon request and at the requester’s expense.
The first edition of Avenues is set to publish in Fall 2026.
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Before Submitting, Please Consider:
- Avenues does not accept creative writing works or other original creative works. Please see Expression Magazine for submission guidelines for creative works.
- Academic works must be original work written by the individual(s) who has submitted it.
- Credible sources used in the academic work must be cited correctly in the text and in the appropriate bibliography.
- Submitted work must be at least 5 pages long and no longer than 25 pages.
- Plagiarism (including AI generated written work) will result in an automatic refusal.
Avenues is published yearly in the Fall semester. Submissions for each publication year must be submitted by September 15 to be considered for publication in that Fall’s issue.
- The submission timeline for a publication year runs from the end of the previous year’s submissions to the following fall semester (e.g., September 2025 to September 2026 is one publication year).
- For example, works submitted any time from September 2025 through September 2026 will be eligible for the Fall 2026 issue of Avenues. Works submitted after Fall 2026 will be eligible for the Fall 2027 issue.
The publication will be released during the last week of November.
For a more detailed and specific explanation of guidelines and expectations, please see the Full Submission Guidelines section below. If you plan on submitting, please read the full guidelines document.
Avenues accepts several types of written works, including:
- Literary Criticism (reviews, analysis, interpretations, rhetorical etc.)
- Research (academic, scientific, reports etc.)
- Synthesis
- Argumentative
- Persuasive
- Informative
- Expository
Expectations:
As an academic publication, authors are expected to write a professional academic, thesis-based work that demonstrates their understanding of their chosen topic and synthesizes information and evidence. Avenues expects its authors to be able to meet the following basic academic standards:
★ The work is typed in Times New Roman, 12-pt. font, and double spaced.
★ Utilizes MLA, APA, AP, Chicago/Turabian, or APSA styles.
★ Limited to no spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors.
★ The work represents the submitter’s academic excellence.
★ The work is an original work written by the individual who has submitted it.
★ The work cannot be plagiarized or written using AI.
★ The work must have an appropriate title that describes the contents/purpose of the work.
★ The work must have an appropriate abstract or description that is roughly 100-300 words, depending on the length of the work
Download the Author’s Checklist to ensure you meet expectations before submitting!
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FAQs
Avenues gives students the opportunity to showcase their academic excellence, grow as emerging scholars, and claim the title of “published author.”
Acceptance into Avenues is an excellent resume builder, showcase of academic excellence to show future schools, and a great stepping stone into the world of academic publishing.
No! In fact, we encourage original, quality research done outside of a class. Not every class assignment is a good fit for submission and we recognize this. You may be motivated or inspired to develop a researched work on your own.
If there is a subject of which you have an interest and can construct a work that fits our guidelines, we encourage you to do so and submit it! However, such special interest works must be reviewed by a Casper College faculty member with expertise in the field/subject of the work before it is submitted.
Yes! Our publication year runs from September to September (Example: September 2025-September 2026). This means that we are accepting submissions for the entirety of that interim period. However, if you submit after the submission deadline, your submission will be put into consideration for the following year’s cycle.
Therefore, you may submit a work at any time during the Fall, Spring, or Summer. Please see the official guidelines for our submission deadline for the publication year.
The only student status requirement is that you are registered and enrolled in at least one Casper College class at the time of submission. Beyond that, student status broadly does not impact whether or not you can submit. As long as you are registered and enrolled in a Casper College class, you are free to submit.
We accept submissions from all of the following common student status types at Casper College:
– Part-Time and Full-Time students
– BOCES students
– University of Wyoming at Casper students
– International students
– Out-of-state students
– Online and In-Person students
– Non-degree and Degree-Seeking students
– Non-Traditional and Traditional students
– Students from any major or program
– Students with any GPA level (However, to be accepted, the work must be quality)
Yes! Group projects can be submitted. With permission from all group members, one person should fill out the submission form.
Within the form, the person will list all group authors’ names and their emails. Upon submission, each author will be emailed an author’s agreement.
In order for the work to be reviewed for possible publication, all authors of the work must complete the author’s agreement.