You’re invited to submit a piece of writing—a memoir, a story, flash fiction, brief essay, poem—or a piece of visual art (photo, painting, drawing, etc.) for the third annual anthology of literary writing from the whole SLCC community.
Anyone connected to SLCC—whether you work here, you’re a student here, you’re an alumna/alumnus, or you plan to come here one day—is welcome to submit writing or art for this anthology.
DEADLINE for submission: September 15, 2018
Submit your work to slcc.anthology@gmail.com.
Attach the work to the email, using the following guidelines:
3-5 poems (one poem per page);
1-3 short prose pieces (fiction, flash fiction, brief essay, memoir); or
Images (please send image in a small file size—if selected, we will request a larger file)
Include contact information in the body of your email (name, email address, phone, mailing address).
Any questions? Please contact Lisa Bickmore at lisa.bickmore@slcc.edu.
Major Jackson, a contemporary American poet, describes reading poetry this way:
Once a reader has fully internalized the poem's machinations, she collects a chorus within her and is transformed. This ritual generates empathy and widens our humanity. These might seem like grand dreams, but it is just such a belief in the power of poetry that spurs my pen to action, whether I am getting paid or not.
(Major Jackson, in a roundtable discussion, “Does Poetry Have a Social Function?” in Poetry magazine, January 2007)
I like to think that engagement with poetry—reading, writing, listening, seeing—does this, or at least can: it intensifies our attention, it attunes us to the world, it can widen our humanity, generate empathy, and it helps us sing—“collects a chorus”—together.
The project called “poetry@SLCC” is really several projects, all of them aimed at helping us hear the music in our work together. I hope you’ll want to participate!
The Projects
The Community Anthology
Everyone who is a part of the SLCC community—faculty and staff, students, alums, trustees, or anyone who plans to come to SLCC one day—is invited to submit a piece of writing or visual art for a new anthology.
The Reading Series
SLCC hosts a diverse slate of writers from across the United States.
The Open Workshops
All comers invited to workshops for anyone interested in writing and revising poetry (or any other kind of imaginative writing).
The Public Installation
Help plan for works of poetry installed on campus, to recognize the role of language in our lives and the immense creativity that comes from our work together.
Lisa Bickmore has been teaching full-time at SLCC since 1992. She grew up living all over the United States and in Japan. She is the author of two books of poems: flicker, which won the 2014 Antivenom Prize from Elixir Press; and Haste (Signature Books, 1994). Her poetry, scholarship, and video work have been published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry; Tar River Poetry; Sugar House Review; SouthWord; Caketrain; Hunger Mountain Review; Terrain.org; Bite Size Poems project (Utah Arts Council); Quarterly West; The Moth; MappingSLC.org; Fire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets; and elsewhere. In 2015, her poem 'Eidolon' was awarded the Ballymaloe International Poetry Award. She teaches writing of all sorts, as well as publication studies, and is one of the founders of the SLCC Publication Center.