Free food and hol­i­day read­ings: Mag­no­li­a’s win­ter party

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Mag­no­lia Art and Lit­er­ary Mag­a­zine’s sub­mis­sion box for the 2018 edi­tion will open at the or­ga­ni­za­tion’s win­ter sub­mis­sion party Dec. 6.

Mag­no­lia is a stu­dent-run or­ga­ni­za­tion that fo­cuses on show­cas­ing the di­verse and cre­ative works Maryville has to of­fer. Stu­dents, alumni, fac­ulty and staff are en­cour­aged to sub­mit their po­etry, prose, paint­ings, graphic de­signs, pho­tographs and more.

Last year’s theme for the pub­li­ca­tion was “Lin­gua Franca,” or a com­mon lan­guage em­braced to bridge com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween dif­fer­ent na­tive tongues. Though this year’s edi­tion will fo­cus else­where, Mag­no­lia still en­cour­ages sub­mis­sions writ­ten in other lan­guages. If you’d like to write a poem in an­other lan­guage, Mag­no­li­a’s team asks that you also sub­mit a trans­la­tion in Eng­lish.

This year’s edi­tion will fo­cus on get­ting back into na­ture and find­ing in­spi­ra­tion in the beauty of the great out­doors. Have a cre­ative piece that does­n’t fit this edi­tion’s theme? No prob­lem! Mag­no­li­a’s edit­ing team will read and con­sider works fo­cus­ing on other top­ics. For more in­for­ma­tion about sub­mis­sion guide­lines, please email any ques­tions to mag­no­lia­maryville@gmail.com.

Graphic created by Molly Godat, designed by Erin Gaubatz.

If you need a break from fi­nals’ week or would like to learn more about sub­mit­ting your work, join Mag­no­lia and friends in the May Gallery, lo­cated on the first floor of the li­brary for its win­ter sub­mis­sion party!

Erin Gaubatz, Mag­no­li­a’s ed­i­tor, said, “Mag­no­lia is thrilled to be host­ing an­other hol­i­day party this year to kick off sub­mis­sions for the spring pub­li­ca­tion. We hope stu­dents, staff and fac­ulty will stop by to en­joy some sweets and learn more about how to sub­mit their cre­ative work to the mag­a­zine.”

The party will last from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and will in­clude hol­i­day themed read­ings, a raf­fle and re­fresh­ments. All are wel­come to join in the fun!

Want to sub­mit a fin­ished piece? This year, Mag­no­lia will of­fer both an on­line and print edi­tion, al­low­ing for the pub­li­ca­tion of more works! To sub­mit, email your writ­ing to mag­no­lia­maryville@gmail.com with your name, ma­jor and year (job ti­tle if you are a mem­ber of fac­ulty or staff.) To sub­mit art­work, please also in­clude the name of the piece and the medium used.

Mag­no­li­a’s win­ter party is a great chance to learn more about the Hu­man­i­ties and Eng­lish ex­tracur­ric­u­lars of­fered to stu­dents on cam­pus. If you can’t make it to the win­ter party Wednes­day, Mag­no­lia and the Po­lite So­ci­ety will also be co-host­ing a pop-up read­ing in the May Gallery on Dec. 4 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. This event will fo­cus on the pieces cre­ated by stu­dents in Pro­fes­sor Dana Lev­in’s Cre­ative Writ­ing Work­shop. Though this event will be fo­cused more on pre­vi­ously gen­er­ated stu­dent work, Mag­no­lia team mem­bers pre­sent at the pop-up read­ing are avail­able to an­swer any ques­tions. Like the win­ter party, all are wel­come and re­fresh­ments will be pro­vided!

Stu­dents who are in­ter­ested in join­ing Mag­no­lia may speak to the ed­i­tor, Erin Gaubatz, or the or­ga­ni­za­tion’s su­per­vi­sor, Dr. Ger­maine Mur­ray. Mag­no­lia can be taken as in­tern­ship credit for qual­i­fied stu­dents for Eng­lish and graphic de­sign. The de­signer of last edi­tion’s cover, sec­ond-year Anna Kane, said that work­ing with Mag­no­lia was a mean­ing­ful and worth­while ex­pe­ri­ence. Email Dr. Mur­ray to learn more.

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