Call for Adventure, by Cole Pentico

There’s an odd stigma in the literary world that genre fiction holds less merit and is somehow less important, relying too heavily on bells and whistles that literary fiction writers refrain from implementing. I call bullshit through cupped hands through a megaphone....

Screens Are a’Changing by Rebecca Drobinski

As a self-proclaimed burgeoning techie, I’m obsessed with things that make me feel like the future is unfurling in front of me. A few months ago, I watched a short documentary by the Verge via YouTube about a company called Wattpad. It’s a platform for writers to post...

Finding Poetry in the Funniest Places, by Daniel Schauer

As a poet I am a bit of a language geek. The structure of language from diction to syntax is fascinating and playing with it makes me feel a bit like a mad scientist. However, examining language I think is key to improving writing in general and is not something...

Unity In Collections, by Matt Swenson

Unity in a collection of literature is an often overlooked aspect of putting together a literary magazine. I’ve seen numerous times in literary magazines, particularly college- and university-run magazines, where the content of the magazine seems to be an...