Bordighera Press publishes italianità in North America from literary works to scholarship on migration and Italian diasporas. This open reading period we continue to seek nuanced and singular views of immigration and the Italian American experience.

• All submissions are processed and considered via Submittable.
• All manuscript pages must be numbered.
• Manuscripts should include a brief description of the work (up to 300 words) and a brief biography of the contributor (up to 100 words).
• The manuscript should be formatted on standard 8.5 x 11 inch paper, 12 pt Times New Roman, single-spaced (with an exception for poetry manuscripts with spaces between stanzas).
• Poetry manuscripts should have no more than one poem to a page, though a poem may run on to more than one page.
• Scholarly/research manuscripts should be formatted in accordance with Chicago Manual of Style. 
• Submissions should note if any of the manuscript has been previously published. If applicable, please include an acknowledgements pages noting where parts of the manuscript have appeared.
• Simultaneous submissions are accepted; please notify us immediately should a manuscript be accepted for publication elsewhere.
• No more than 3 manuscript projects may be submitted by a single author. Any submission exceeding the 3 manuscript limit will be rejected unread.

VIA: Voices in Italian Americana is a semiannual literary and scholarly review of and about the cultures of Italy and its diasporas from Bordighera Press. Open to all contributors, VIA features fiction, essays, poetry, critical studies, and visual works that offer nuanced and singular views of the Italian diasporic experience.

Note: Manuscripts should be formatted according to The Chicago Manual of Style. Prose submissions are limited to 5000 words; poetry should not exceed five pages. Contributors grant VIA first serial rights and receive a complimentary digital edition of the issue. Discounts are available on print copies.