Laurus

Fall Submission Deadline

Sarah Pollard — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:58:59 -0500

Miss the Deadline? It's all good, we forgive you. Thanks to everyone who's submitted so far -- we are mining our way through the mountain! -- but if you were distracted by economy-based panic and mid-terms, we'll continue to take any straggling submissions for a spell. Cool, thanks. :)

Tack up your mules! Laurus is now accepting submissions for our upcoming Fall issue.
Our editors are salivating for your poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, and visual art, so gather your creative gems, read the Submission Guidelines carefully, and send them our way!

Submission Deadline: October 17, 2008

Love love love,
Sarah J Pollard

Thanks!

Mon, 19 May 2008 07:45:05 -0500

Thanks to everyone who submitted for the Spring 2008 issue of Laurus. The issue is in our hands and will soon be in yours. Check back soon for more info.

Spring Deadline

Rachael Wolfe — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:52:12 -0500

Here's what you're gonna need to know!

DEADLINE FOR SPRING 2008:

SUNDAY APRIL 13
SUNDAY APRIL 13SUNDAY APRIL 13

Thanks so much to all of you who submitted for publication in this winter's upcoming issue!

The rules, regulations and requirements for submission can be found on the Submit page of our site. Happily enough the Submit page of our site is additionally where and how you can submit submissions adhering to our submission guidelines. You're also gonna wanna make sure to put all your submissions into one document, it says that over there but man, nobody pays attention to that part. Do it! We'll like you even more!

Yours Again,
Jessica Millnitz

Out of Andrews and Into the World!

Jessica Millnitz — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:59:27 -0500
We've been working long hours over the break to bring you a new issue of Laurus. To celebrate its publication (thanks in part to Augustums printing) we're holding a reading this Friday in the auditorium of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at 6:30 pm. We'll have copies of this and our previous issue for sale and, more importantly, contributers and staff from both will be reading new and original work. Fix up, look sharp, and top off your first week back to school by reconnecting to your hyper-engaged undergraduate writing community!

Now Via Paypal...

Jessica Millnitz — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:23:31 -0500

So, in an attempt to promote Laurus' expansion into the new millenium, I thought it'd be sweet to make our last issue available via the internet. Now wherever you are in the Lower 48, you can get a copy of the FdC Laurus for the tastily low price of five dollars per issue, postage paid, tax-free, and not-for-profit.

Sounds good? Sounds good.

Enjoy,
Jessica Millnitz

ANNOUNCEMENT! (2 OF 2)

Jessica Millnitz — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:37:16 -0500
If you're reading this and you haven't read ANNOUNCEMENT! (1 of 2), you need to know that ANNOUNCEMENT! (1 of 2) pertains to the publication of a new Laurus! If you're reading the Laurus News, I assume you care about that and need know about ANNOUNCEMENT! (1 of 2)

Other than that, here's what's new:

AMENDED DEADLINE FOR WINTER 2007:

NOVEMBER 10
NOVE MBER 10NOVEMBER 10

Thanks so much to all of you who submitted for publication in this winter's upcoming issue, The Winter of Our Ambition Issue! We got a lot of stuff and we've already begun reading through the submissions. However, this will be the first of many semi-annual issues of Lauruses to come and making the switch from being an annual to a semi-annual publication means we need more! More of your fiction, prose and critical analysis! More of your theory, poetry, and essay writing! More of your textual, lexical, or extra-lexical two-dimensional black-and-white imagery!

To that end we've decided to push back the deadline for submission for consideration for publication in the next issue to (remember remember) the tenth of November.

The rules, regulations and requirements for submission can be found on the Submit page of our site. Happily enough the Submit page of our site is additionally where and how you can submit submissions adhering to our submission guidelines. So what are you waiting for? Get busy!

Thank Your Lucky Stars I Didn't Have to Post Any More Pictures,
Yours Again,
Jessica Millnitz

ANNOUNCEMENT! (1 of 2)

Jessica Millnitz — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:26:37 -0500

Follow these links for larger images of the the front cover, the back cover (w/ a list of contributers), and the whole shebang.

The Fin de Cycle Issue of Laurus is out!

Featuring Ben Kamprath as the winner of our $100 cover art competition and the last issue to have been staffed and edited under faculty advisor Greg Kuzma, we've been distributing this uncharacteristically svelte volume to English faculty and contributing writers but we've had yet to make it publically official. This issue of Laurus (Morris Publishing, 2007) in a 300-copy run and will be sold at the not-for-profit price of $5.00 each.

That's over 66% fewer copies than have been printed of previous issues which were sold for 200% more dollars! As a supplier I feel the need to make sure you demanders out there know you can snap up your copy on the cheap but that you're gonna have to do it quick, cause they won't last forever. For now copies can be purchased in person at the English department office or the English advising office (rooms 123 or 202 Andrews Hall, respectively) or by emailing nelaurus@gmail.com for further information. If you are one of the contributors to (or editors of) the issue and have not yet received your libre livre, email us at nelaurus@gmail.com or find Laurus's current faculty advisor or one of its staff members and say, "you there! Where's my libre livre!?"

Everything after the next sentence is stuff I personally find relevant. However I also recognize that it's not of absolute import to the content of Announcement! (1 of 2).

Libre livre directly translates from French to English as "free book." Though it is of note that this translation is grammatically incorrect as adjectives typically follow rather than precede nouns in French. However adjectives considered to be either nondescriptive or inherently descriptive (pertaining to the beauty, age, goodness, or size) of the noun they modify are allowed to lead their corresponding nouns. So I made the linguistic call that, as I meant it, "free" was an inherent quality of the book you'd be receiving. The problem of grammar eliminated from the phrase "libre livre," I'm still left with a referential riddle. When we say "free" in English, we could be using an adjective that means a price of zero or that means is the quality or state of freedom or that means both at once; in English there is no adjective that exclusively connotes freedom or exclusively connotes a price of zero. In French "gratis" means free as in having a price of zero and "libre" refers to being free of or free from. So to justify my use of freedom-free instead of money-free I need to claim I was implying the inherently good freedom of the object you'll be receiving, to betray my privileging of kitschy lexical similarities over accurate rendition, or to suggest my plan all along was to create the impression of an inside joke for those of you both familiar enough with French and grammar to know if and how the phrase "libre livre" is problematic or for those of you both impatient enough to look up the unfamiliar vocabulary and familiar enough with split entendres. The use of entendre here is itself another example of English-French mis-conflation.

In reality though none of these justifications are adequate. I used the phrase "libre livre" pretty much just so I could go off on that preposterous tangent. I thought it'd be a great way to demonstrate how using or finding foreign language in writing meant for a regional audience largely unfamiliar with the foreign language being used or found can be wrong, awesome, stupid, interesting, obnoxious, silly, entertaining, coincidental, purposeful or all or none of the above.

I thought that needed demonstrating for several reasons: I'm referring to that issue as "The Fin de Cycle Issue" without first consulting any of the rest of the staff responsible for the editing and publication of that issue and I don't recall any of us ever having mentioned anything about fin de cycle; this use of "fin de cycle" represents a universal concept of anticipatory excitement articulated in a particular term for ends of eras. Also? I just didn't know what else to call it since two issues of Laurus were printed in 2007 and in the past issues of Laurus have been referred to by academic calendar. I felt like I could justify making this executive decision regarding the issue's title because in addition to being one of the issue's editors, I'm also the current Laurus president now and I can do that.

This is in no way indicative of the executive power of a Laurus president though, since any of the senior editors, president or no, who ended up writing and posting this update would have had to come up with a way to refer to The Fin de Cycle Issue.

But enough about me, language and the inherent difficulty of same, onto the second announcement!

PRONOUNCEMENT!: The First of Three, Get Ready, Three News Posts for Tonight!

Jessica Millnitz — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:48:08 -0500

Laurus has two announcements to make! Two!

They will be made in the form of two (!) separate news posts. First, because they are super important and deserve to show up individually in peoples' RSS readers. Second, because posting one really long news post that would remain on the site's home page might prove visually daunting and prevent people from learning the super important news.

For the record, all I can tell you about the image that accompanies this news post is that it is the first image result that appears in an image search for PRONOUNCEMENT!.

For Now,
Your Laurus Prez,
Jessica Millnitz

Fall Deadline

Jessica Millnitz — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:32:36 -0500

Senior Laurus editors and editorial alumni Sunday night after an ill-fated media blitz. From left: Jeff Downey, Jessica Millnitz, Alisa Heinzman, and Carlin Mackie

If you've been lucky enough to spot one of the special edition rain-out posters, generously designed for us by local tough Jake Gillespie, you might be wondering what's up with the deadline. Well, as promised, this year Laurus is becoming a semi-annual journal. This means that we'll be publishing not one but two collections of undergraduate creative writing per academic calendar. It also means the autumnal deadline is nigh! Submissions began rolling in shortly after my last post but if you're interested in becoming a contributer, I assure you it's not too late! Send us your prose, poetry, short fiction, essays, critical reviews, and whatever other brilliant textual flotsam and jetsum you've salvaged from the debris, but be sure to salvage by October 15. You can upload your piece or pieces on the Submissions page of our site and address any questions to nelaurus@gmail.com.

New News!

Jessica Millnitz — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:45:18 -0500

Oh my gosh, okay, so Laurus got a brand new bag! And the bag's got brand new stuff in it. Real quick, here are just some of the exciting new things inside that bag:

-- Our student editorial board! I, Jessica Millnitz, am still here and so's Carlin Mackie and Kyle Crawford and you might remember our delightful staff bios from the site last year but, in trying to learn the internet, I accidentally deleted Carlin's so I figured we might as well just tabula rassa the whole thing. Squadding up this year, we've got Alisa Heinzman, Becky Ankenbrand, Kenny Seidel and Rachel Wolfe. We'll all be (re)introducing ourselves on the staff page

-- Anthony Hawley! He writes poems, he teaches classes, and in an interview with Laura Sims he says his favorite curse word is "dill-wad." He's our new faculty adviser. And that interview? Is not even remotely hard to find.

-- A new issue! Sooner than you can say 'have you any word from the publishers?' you'll be able to find new work from Alisa, Becky, and Kenny plus plenty more of your favorite undergraduate writing from the 2006-2007 school year in our print edition! You may have noticed that, to your left in the EVENTS section, it says something along the lines of "IT'S HERE, IT'S REAL, WE DONE IT--September 28th." And it ain't no lie. It will be, it will be, and we will have.

-- A new deadline! Yup, we're crackin' the whip right outta the gate this time and we're hoping you're chomping at the bit, too, because Laurus is splitting like an amoeba into a semiannual journal. Ambitious? Yes. Entirely outside the realm of possibility? Well, let's just say our glass is half-full. We'll be putting out one Laurus per semester and we'll be sure you know the exact deadline the minute we do (which should be within the next week). Feel free to start submitting things (via the submissions page on this very same website) the minute you finish reading this.

So, yeah! Stay tuned for new staff bios, new poetry, new fiction, and other new undergraduate writing flora (and maybe even fauna), as well as info on how to get your mits on a copy of our super slick, super slim, limited edition (we're doing a small run on this issue so don't expect copies to wait by the phone). As always, feel free to email us your questions, comments and concerns at nelaurus@gmail.com.

Until Next Time, I Remain, & Etc.,
Jessica