Hello Art and Literary
Enthusiasts!
It is my pleasure to kick off the Aurora blog with this first post. So many ideas are swimming through my head right now as to what sorts of things we should actually post here. We'll definitely have reminders of all of our events though they are few and far between. Oh, and I think we'll also post the results from our biannual contests: the
Magpo contest in the fall and the anti-sonnet contest in the spring around Valentine's Day.
Right now, however, let me go over a year in the life of Aurora magazine:
- During the fall we mostly advertise, and begin our call for submissions. This fall's deadline is DECEMBER 10TH so mark it in your calendars! We also have our Magnetic Poetry event where we invite people to create their own magnetic poem in Evans during lunch one day. We then put all of the magnetic poems through our usual judging and the winner is published in the magazine.
- In the spring the work actually begins. A second and final deadline is set (TBA for this spring) and after we collect all of our submissions the entire crew judges them and then we begin to put the magazine together! We have a layout party one night during this time where we decide the order of the winning submissions in the magazine. After we get the magazine layout all squared away on the computer, we send it off to the publisher. We end the year with a Release Gala celebrating all of the hard work of the staff and the talents of those who submit.
So please, please, please SUBMIT!
We accept all of your...
Writing:
poetry, fiction, nonfiction, one act plays, travel journals
and Art:
paintings, sculptures, collages-any sort of visual art that you can either scan or take a picture of and email to us in .jpeg form.
If you've ever thought of submitting to Aurora, do! This is a great way of getting yourself published no matter what your experience is and also the more submissions we get the better quality of the magazine.
Send all submissions to aurora@agnesscott.edu
Merry Thursday,
Leda Sox
Aurora Editor
