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Preparing an ELF Portfolio

• Your portfolio should be made up of original, unpublished fiction; you can submit either short stories or pieces from a longer work.
• Your portfolio must be submitted via email to:
  d.e.williams@tcu.edu.
• When submitting ecopy, please submit in one attachment; please do not send several separate attachments.
• Your portfolio length should be 50 to 75 double-spaced pages.
• Please use a standard font at either 12 or 14 point.
• The reflective introduction should be at least 2 to 3 pages but no more than 5 pages; the introduction should discuss the themes and aims of your stories but also offer some description of your interests and goals as a writer; try to answer the question, “Why do I write?”
• Please number the pages of the portfolio sequentially from 1 to 50-75; do not begin renumbering each story or chapter.
• Please make sure that you include and sign the ELF cover sheet.
• Please include a table of contents listing your introduction and stories/chapters by their correct page numbers.
• Please do not use a running title or name at the top of your pages.
• Please let your recommenders know that they can either send their recommendations by email or to a street address. If sending their recommendations by email, please have them sent to: d.e.williams@tcu.edu. If sending them via US Postal Service, please have them sent to:
  Dr. Dan Williams
  Director, TCU Press
  TCU Box 298300
  Fort Worth, TX 76129
• Please ask your recommenders to comment on the writing you are submitting as well as your overall performance as a student.
• Please do not send open recommendations along with your portfolio.
• Please make sure both your portfolio and recommendations are received by the deadline—Friday, December 2, 2022, no later than 5 PM.
• If you have further questions, please contact Dr. Dan Williams at d.e.williams@tcu.edu, or call 817-257-5907.