On Fortnight Literary Press

Fortnight Literary Press is sponsored both by the Undergraduate English Department and Arts at Michigan – a humble student-run publication from which collections of literary and visual art occasionally emerge on a canvas of pulped trees and bound with staples. From the submissions, selection, assembly, to the distribution – it has our handprints all over it. In the beginning of December, we released our first issue of the semester after weeks of careful deliberation (ie. discussion and a democratic voting session). The petite journal is available in both an online format as well as in print: a couple hundred, glossy faced hard copies were distributed by our members to lecture halls, cafés, and libraries prior to finals.

As one of the editors, I encourage any of you to submit snippets of your thoughts in whichever format is most natural to you to the journal. We’re quite open-minded here, and will try our utmost to accommodate any work of art in the limitations of 10”x10” paper or in its online incarnation. Thus, we are unique in that we’ve thrown that submissions guidelines approach out the proverbial window and emphatically ask everyone to delve into that subterranean parts of their minds and emerge with something they’d like to share with the community, in whichever manner that they choose. Submit anonymously (or not), submit your creative writing assignments, submit what you’ve been itching to articulate to the world. Who knows, perhaps you might be the next Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson, or Colum McCaan?

Our website as well as our archive of issues is located here.