Literary magazine shines spotlight on student work
Deadline is Saturday for spring 2010 issue
Elizabeth Blood
Issue date: 10/29/09 Section: A&E
The Cedar Valley Divide, Kirkwood's literary magazine, will be receiving its final submissions this week for the 2010 issue.
Deadline is Saturday, Oct. 31. "We always set the deadline for the end of the fall semester and then try to get it out to the students by the end of the spring semester," said Tonja Robins, adviser for The Cedar Valley Divide.
The Cedar Valley Divide is a student-run organization that creates a magazine. Robins said the magazine is filled with fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, photography and art. Submissions can be of past or current work.
"I absolutely do see it as a good outlet for students because there is nothing else at Kirkwood that is published either online or in print that really focuses on students' creative work," Robins said.
One way students can get involved is submitting entries. Another way is by enrolling in the "Editing a Literary Magazine" class taught by Robins. "The staff almost always comes from that course," she said.
The project is started in the fall semester during that course. In the spring students can sign up for an independent study where the more in-depth process begins because the submissions have been chosen. It takes most of the spring semester to put the magazine together.
"The students make the final decisions. It's a very democratic process," Robins said.
Last year the magazine had between 250 and 300 submissions. Robins said each year the number of submissions increases.
The Cedar Valley Divide added a staff-designed Web site last year. "To begin with we only put certain submissions on the Web site, and when we're finished at the end of the year we'll put the full PDF up," Robins said.
Enter submissions at www.cedarvalleydivide.org or e-mail cvd@kirkwood.edu.
Deadline is Saturday, Oct. 31. "We always set the deadline for the end of the fall semester and then try to get it out to the students by the end of the spring semester," said Tonja Robins, adviser for The Cedar Valley Divide.
The Cedar Valley Divide is a student-run organization that creates a magazine. Robins said the magazine is filled with fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, photography and art. Submissions can be of past or current work.
"I absolutely do see it as a good outlet for students because there is nothing else at Kirkwood that is published either online or in print that really focuses on students' creative work," Robins said.
One way students can get involved is submitting entries. Another way is by enrolling in the "Editing a Literary Magazine" class taught by Robins. "The staff almost always comes from that course," she said.
The project is started in the fall semester during that course. In the spring students can sign up for an independent study where the more in-depth process begins because the submissions have been chosen. It takes most of the spring semester to put the magazine together.
"The students make the final decisions. It's a very democratic process," Robins said.
Last year the magazine had between 250 and 300 submissions. Robins said each year the number of submissions increases.
The Cedar Valley Divide added a staff-designed Web site last year. "To begin with we only put certain submissions on the Web site, and when we're finished at the end of the year we'll put the full PDF up," Robins said.
Enter submissions at www.cedarvalleydivide.org or e-mail cvd@kirkwood.edu.
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