Publishing Literature: First Run!

The end of this fall 2025 term marks the first wrap of one of our brand new publishing courses: WR 246, Publishing Literature: Reading and Revising for Publication. Eight brave student editors learned the ropes of publishing by reading nearly 1300 submissions from more than 500 authors—and had a blast doing it! From researching literary journals to refining acquisition standards, from working with authors on developmental revision to soliciting cover art, these assistant editors have curated an incredible selection of poetry, prose, and possibility texts for our upcoming 30th volume. Thanks to the poets and writers who helped make this work possible!

Publishing Begins!

So many thanks to all the amazing poets and writers for sharing your work during this year’s submission period. Our window closed yesterday—with over 560 submissions!! WOW!!! Our reading period begins next week, and there is yet another incredible group of student editors ready to learn all about publishing by doing the hard work to publish the next volume of our beloved literary journal—and our 30th issue!

Thank you!!