Literary Magazine Practicum

Catalog description

This course teaches students basic principles of literary magazine editing, production, and content-creation. Students act as editors, readers, contributors, and assistants for Allium: A Journal of Poetry & Prose. You will learn the fundamentals of editorial selection, copyediting, proofreading, content writing, production, and distribution. Work in class includes the processing and managing of submissions; discussing, as editors, the poems submitted to the journal; managing editorial correspondence (rejections and acceptances); amplifying Allium's social media presence; discussing which writing from the final manuscript will be published in our online issues and which will be published in our print issue: and an overview of?budgeting and financial considerations for publication projects. Additional activities include writing interviews, book reviews, and curating multimedia pieces for the journal.