Our Submission Guidelines
[Last updated on 22 August 2025]
1. Submission
2. Length
3. Languages
4. AI
5. Disclaimers
6. Research Ethics
7. Referencing & Citation
8. Ethical Procedure
9. Useful Reading
[Last updated on 22 August 2025]
1. Submission
2. Length
3. Languages
4. AI
5. Disclaimers
6. Research Ethics
7. Referencing & Citation
8. Ethical Procedure
9. Useful Reading
Both submission and publication are free of charge. At the moment, we are unable to pay contributors. As we are a new publication, we are working towards securing funding to revise this payment model.
For all your documents, please name your file with the issue number and your name after, i.e ‘Issue 1 - [YOUR NAME]’. You can find the issue number in the open call you are submitting for.
If you have a piece ready to submit, please make sure it contains:
If you have a draft of your submission, please make sure to note it in the Google Form. For drafts, we do not expect the requirements stated above to be included in your work at this stage.
1. Submission
We do not have a prerequisite word limit for submitted pieces; however, for readability reasons, we generally recommend that research articles contain no more than 2000 words excluding title, references and notes.
2. Length
Submissions are accepted in, but not limited to, the following languages (A-Z):
*If you have a piece written in Malay, we have the capacity to review but not translate it at this time. In this instance, we would publish the piece in Malay and an English translation will follow if we are able to find someone to translate it.
If selected, we will aim to translate your work into other languages within our capacity.
We accept submissions in the languages not listed above, provided that an English translation is available and attached to your submission. If a submission is a translation, then we require the consent of both translator and original writer when publishing translated works.
Moreover, if we or another interested party wishes to translate your submission into another language, we will seek your permission and approval of the translation.
We are always looking to expand our availability of languages at re:wave, so contact us at rewave.press@gmail.com if you are interested in helping us do so!
3. Languages
4. AI
5. Disclaimers
Therefore, we recommend reading the ‘Our Methods’
re:wave’s editorial team places our trust in the submitters based on their written works’ trajectory and their participation in their own activism. We are also prepared to learn and discuss together the editorial process required to develop our critical perceptions on queer-feminist ethics in research.
6. Research Ethics
Please ensure that all relevant information is cited either with direct links, in-text, or in footnotes. You may use any style of referencing, but it should be consistent throughout the piece.
Free online resources for referencing are available below:
Citation is critical not only to avoid plagiarism but also to challenge and undo the often unquestioned authority of dominant knowledge production systems that label certain work as legitimate and others as not. Our understanding of citation politics is indebted to Sara Ahmed’s work Living a Feminist Life (2017) in which they discuss citation as “feminist memory”:
Following Ahmed, we encourage our community to engage with our readings with an intention of reorienting our narrative.
7. Referencing & Citation
Submit your work through our Google Forms.
Once your work is received, our editorial team will review and select your work based on the following open-ended selection criteria:
- The submission aligns with the values and visions of our platform as a decolonial queer-feminist magazine focusing on the voices from East and Southeast Asia, its diaspora and beyond.
- The submission communicates well with the topic or theme of the particular issue of re:wave for which it was submitted
In reviewing your work, we will prioritise our intuitive and affective interaction with the work rather than focusing on the logical consistency, polished academic language, or novelty of the research or argument, criteria which are rooted in imperial formation of power-knowledge.
In some cases, the work may not be suitable for a certain issue of re:wave. In this case, we can offer such submissions detailed feedback and encourage you to resubmit either the same piece or another work. Please note, however, that if the submission is applicable to any of the following, it will be immediately rejected.
- The submission contains malicious use of discriminatory language.
- The submission does not align with our ethics and integrity standards (i.e. plagiarism, violation of privacy, AI-use)
- The submission has been published or being considered for publication elsewhere, and the previous publisher has not given permission to republish it at re:wave
If your work is selected for publication, it will be peer-reviewed by our editorial collective as well as through our contributors peer-review procedure. The contributors peer-review procedure is to involve contributors in our publishing process as we envision re:wave as a learning commons and invite everyone to take part and ownership. This is also to practise our vision of intra-regional intellectual collaboration and community building.
A workshop will be organised to explain further this process and discuss how we can go about doing it.
All forms of feedback and suggestions are intended to be constructive and respectful of your views and creativity; these will never be intended to reduce someone’s intellectuality.
Throughout the editing process, we will host a pre-review meeting which is a meeting arranged at the beginning of the editorial process. This is to introduce contributors to each other and to our editorial procedure and timeline. We will also invite contributors to share what they’re looking for and their feedback on our ways of working.
Once collaborative editing is completed, your work is translated with your permission into languages that are not used in the original work.
After final proofing of the content, before it is published, we will ask for your approval on the copy we will use to promote your work on social media and other outlets.
Your work is published in our magazine online and promoted on our social media platforms!
If you feel the decision we made to press your submission was undue or unjustified in any way, you are encouraged to write to us detailing your argument at rewave.press@gmail.com.
8. Editorial Procedure
For a more detailed understanding of our research ethics, read PERETAS’ guidebook
[Last updated on 22 August 2025]
9. Useful Reading