Lamar University’s Pulse Literary Magazine is accepting submissions of formal poetry, free verse poetry, short fiction, scholarly essays, modern language literary translations and cover art.
The deadline for submissions is Dec. 15. A $100 cash prize is available for each category.
Submissions may include any theme, prose editor Claudia Cooper said.
“It’s just whatever connects with people, what we think there might be a theme that stands out, something that makes it literary versus just nonfiction,” she said. “There is not a criteria, because we accept a lot of things. It’s just what stands out to us.”
Submissions are open to all majors. Each student has the opportunity to receive feedback, correct their work and resubmit.
“It’s a call for every single student, ‘Hey, this is an easy opportunity to get published, to get your work out there, your name out there, and to potentially get some money,’” Cooper said.
Pulse is a student-run literary magazine that has published yearly since 1959.
“The magazine was started by students and is still run by students,” Dave Oliphant, alumni and donor, said. “That’s very unusual. Usually the institution runs it, and so many (publications) die because the institution loses interest in it. But with students, they don’t lose interest and they support it.”
Oliphant was included in the first edition and said being accepted led to his career as an English professor.
“(Pulse) means the world to me,” Oliphant said. “I credit Lamar and Pulse with my career, and I never would have imagined all the things that it affected in my life.”
For more, visit lamar.edu/english and click on the publications link, or check out Pulse Literary Magazine of Lamar University on Facebook.