SCR Update # 1 - Pam's Call for Submissions

SCR Update # 1 - Pam's Call for Submissions

For our inaugural weekly content post, The Sand Canyon Review is proud to introduce a call of submissions from our Short Stories Editor, Pam Donahue. It’s 500 words of her experiences getting students of Crafton Hills College to submit as well as an open call for all of you guys to submit as well!

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As I searched for the Creative Writing classroom it didn’t take me long to realize it was definitely off the beaten path. Symbolic, I thought, because some of the best literature is exactly like that.

Inside the building, it took me a little while to figure out where I was supposed to go. I finally resorted to putting my ear to the door and listening for Aaron’s voice, and then silently slipping into the room. The classroom was more like a large cubbyhole in a building otherwise devoted to the art of firefighting. But there they were … the creative writing students of all ages. My people! Aaron the Teacher greeted me and, after the introductions were made, I told all the interested faces about writing … for the upcoming 2011 edition of the Sand Canyon Review magazine. They asked questions and I answered, finally urging them to please, please, please write their stories and poems, read and reread, edit very carefully, and send in their work!

As I was looking around the room, not knowing most of the students at all, I understood that it’s easy to lose track of the fact that we all have individual and unique lives, with families, friends, and adversaries. But we all have some rich stories to tell, some tragic, some wonderful, some fictional, and some that really happened. Do you have an interesting friend with delicately adjusted sensibilities, a family legend of a hilarious holiday debacle, or think about the quiet yet startling musings of Louis XVI? Whatever lovely or violent, fictional, non-fictional, or flash fictional piece of history, horror, mystery, adventure, romance, comedy, or science fiction that has been incubating in the wrinkles of your grey matter, put it on paper! Read, reread, bug your neighbor to read, edit very carefully, and send it in to The Sand Canyon Review. Your deadline is February 25, 2011, so you need to get started!

If your piece is published, you get to retain all the rights to your work. Attach or enclose your story or poem in an easy-to-read format and send it to:

SCRSubmissions@gmail.com

Also, we need to know a little something about yourself in the way of a 50-word-or-less biography, which will also be published if your piece is chosen. Some ideas for your bios could be: where you live, classes/education/teachers you’ve had, what gives you inspiration, interesting likes/dislikes/themes, or whatever. But please pay attention to the 50-word limit. Anything longer than that will be edited.

Basic Rules:

On each piece submitted, we must have your:

Name

Address

Phone Number

Email

Your 50-word-or-less bio

Poems can be closed or open form (although our emphasis this year will be on closed forms), and no longer than 40 lines in length. Limit: 3 poems.

Short stories are limited to 10 pages (double-spaced, typewritten) or less. Limit: 3 short stories.

So, get going! We look forward to hearing from YOU!

Pam Donahue, Editor

Short Stories

2011 Sand Canyon Review

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We're back and we're ready for submission for the 2011 issue!

We’re back!

The Sand Canyon Review is back! With a new attitude, look and a fresh take on the literary magazine, that you won't find anywhere else! Except here at The Sand Canyon Review.

The third edition of The Sand Canyon Review is out! Stay tuned for more about the exciting new fourth edition of The Sand Canyon Review - that'll be sure to turn heads.

We are pleased to announce that work is already starting for the fourth edition of The Sand Canyon Review. Don't be afraid to show us your work!

Submit to SCRsubmissions@gmail.com with “SCR Submission” in the header

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-The Sand Canyon Review Staff

More about The Sand Canyon Review:

The Sand Canyon Review (SCR) is an annual literary magazine published by the students of Crafton Hills College and the English Department of Crafton Hills College. Our goal is to provide a magazine full of great literature and artwork.

If you have any short stories, poems, photography, or artwork of any kind; feel free to submit your work to us. Send over your work via email at SCRsubmissions@gmail.com, with the subject header, SCR submissions.

Submission Rules & Regulations:

-Deadline for the 2011 edition of The Sand Canyon Review is February 25, 2011.

-Name, address & phone number of the submitter must appear on the work submitted.

-Any pen name must be included within submission.

-Include the type of work submitted: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Photography, or Art.

-Please include a bio of 50 words and some interesting facts about yourself.

-Written work may be no more than 10 pages in length.

-Written submissions must be in black, 12 point, Times New Roman font with 1’’ margins.

-All artwork is limited to 3 entries per person.

-Art and photography submissions must be in .jpeg format with at least 300 dpi or of a high-resolution nature.

-Poetry must be limited to 40 lines.

-All work must be original and unpublished.

-Work may also be submitted to Ryan Bartlett’s box in building SSA and must include a self-addresses stamped envelope if work is to be returned to the submitter.

-Submissions are open to all who wish to submit their work for potential publication in The Sand Canyon Review.

-The Sand Canyon Review reserves the right to refuse publication of any works submitted, for only the finest submissions will be accepted for publication as chosen by the staff of The Sand Canyon Review.

-The Sand Canyon Review is a literary and art magazine published each spring. The content is generated by students of Crafton Hills College, as well as other artists and authors who chose to contribute. The magazine is published by the Literary Magazine Production class with assistance from the Crafton Hills English Department.

Opinions and ideas expressed in The Sand Canyon Review are those of the artists and authors. The Sand Canyon Review and its contents do not necessarily reflect the views of the students of Crafton Hills College, its administration, or staff.

All rights revert solely to the artists and authors upon publication.