Up to three pieces may be submitted in this category during a single submission period. 的 maximum word length for each manuscript is 4000. Each submission must be double-spaced using 12 point type size in either Arial or Times New Roman Font. All works must be titled and submitted separately. Do not include your name within the body or margins of your work.

小说节选

Up to three pieces may be submitted in this category during a single submission period. 的 maximum word length for each manuscript is 4000. Each submission must be double-spaced using 12 point type size in either Arial or Times New Roman Font. All works must be titled and submitted separately. Do not include your name within the body or margins of your work.

创造性的非小说

Up to three pieces may be submitted in this category during a single submission period. 的 maximum word length for each manuscript is 4000. Each submission must be double-spaced using 12 point type size in either Arial or Times New Roman Font. All works must be titled and submitted separately. Do not include your name within the body or margins of your work.

短篇小说

Up to three pieces may be submitted in this category during a single submission period. 的 maximum word length for each manuscript is 4000. Each submission must be double-spaced using 12 point type size in either Arial or Times New Roman Font. All works must be titled and submitted separately. Do not include your name within the body or margins of your work.

诗歌

Up to ten poems may be submitted by any one person during each submission period. 的 maximum line length for each poem is 60 lines. Poems must be single-spaced using 12 point type size in Arial or Times New Roman font. Poems should be left justified unless doing otherwise serves an artistic purpose. All poems must be titled and submitted separately. Do not include your name within the body or margins of your work.

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的历史 橡子审查

太阳城娱乐的文学期刊遗产在学院成立后不久就开始了。

In 1963, 英语系 faculty members Chester H. Palmer and George Kirazian became faculty advisors to a short-lived but earnest project dedicated to student literary expression, named 《魔爪文学杂志》. Editors Bill Muerdter and Kurt Kuhwald made this statement in the literary magazine's first issue: "Colleges provide many means for student expression: scholastically, athletically, politically, etc. However, the artistic talents of a student body are often denied adequate display. It is the purpose of 爪 to provide a media for expression in literature to students of Grossmont大学. We hope you enjoy the stories, poems, and essays written by your fellow students." That initial issue of 《魔爪文学杂志》 was a labor of love on a small budget, with a basic design layout and manually type-set contents. By the following year, 爪's production value had already begun to improve, but the glossy cover, professional typesetting, and full-page black-and-white photography inside would also be the magazine's swan song: by 1965, faculty advisor C.H. Palmer would leave Grossmont to become Dean of Instruction for El Centro College in Dallas, Texas, and by 1966 George Kirazian would begin filling his duties as Grossmont大学's next 英语系 Chair. Student editor Kurt Kuhwald left to complete his degree at San Diego State College (he is now Reverend Kurt A. Kuhwald), and after Coast Guard veteran Bill Muerdter graduated and started a carpentry business, the baton of 爪's editorship would never pass to a next generation of students. It wouldn't be long, however, before another "adequate display" of Grossmont's artistic writing talents would find its medium for expression.

In January of 1969, Journalism instructor and campus newspaper editor Pat Higgins, with funding from the Communications Department and the 英语系, challenged Journalism 124 students to create a literary supplement. 的 result was the newspaper insert, Impulse, featuring a collection of poems and short works of fiction generated by 英语 students, alongside original drawings and artistic photographs. Grossmont's campus newspaper, G (现在 这次峰会), had no plans for repeat issues of Impulse, but the one-off project sparked vociferous response from G's readers demanding more. 的 newspaper's editor-in-chief published the following statement in the 1969 year-end edition: "Because of numerous requests that another issue of 'Impulse' be produced this year, G felt it would be appropriate to reserve eight pages of its final edition for this purpose. 的 following pages contain literary material contributed by students enrolled in Grossmont 英语 classes." Impulse demonstrated, if nothing else, that there was a popular demand for a real campus literary arts periodical. In response, G would sporadically publish a few more literary supplements, but none would bear the name "Impulse" again, nor would they be given their own periodicity like a regular serial publication.

朱莉Cardenas still serves today as faculty advisor and has made considerable strides to transform the 橡子审查 into one of San Diego east county's premier literary journals, all while keeping the integrity of its original mission: to offer as an exclusive showcase for our student writers and artists, and to serve as an unprecedented practicum for Grossmont大学s students interested in literary editing and publishing. It would take another decade before public demand for a dedicated literary arts journal would be answered. In 1978, part-time 英语 instructor Verena Anderson would begin advising the first editorial board for the brand new literary journal FirstDraft. Anderson's journal was an instant success, garnering enthusiastic and broad support from the Department, especially from her other colleagues in the now-growing Creative Writing Program: Ruth Anderson, Judith Barkley, Glenda Richter, and Stephanie Mood. 朱莉Cardenas, who joined the 英语系 faculty in 1993, took over the project when Verena Anderson retired in 1995. (Anderson passed away in 1999.) 的 journal continued being published under the name "FirstDraft" until the late 90s, when a campus-wide contest was held to give the journal's title a makeover. 的 winning submission came from Stephanie Mood, who recommended 橡子审查, chosen not only as a metaphor for the seeds of great talent but as a nod to the Kumeyaay Native Americans who populated the region.

Of course, the journal's title is not its only feature to have evolved over the years. Having originally featured primarily poetry, short fiction, and sketch art, the Acorn Review has since expanded its genres and content to include creative nonfiction, plays, and full-color art work and photography. Also, since taking over the position of faculty advisor in the mid 90s, Cardenas has championed the 橡子审查's format transformation from an 8.5 x 11 booklet with a Velo binding to a professionally bound cover-stock book with a glossy, full-color cover. When state budget cuts threatened to cancel 橡子审查 classes, Cardenas and her students mobilized quickly to begin an official 橡子审查 Club, which arranged to use regular Monday night meetings and the social media environment to conduct many of the same editorial functions as the class. Fortunately, 英语 145: 橡子审查 continues to be offered as a "for credit" repeatable workshop, and writers across the campus always eagerly await the journal's next edition, but the 橡子审查 Club also maintains its charter now as a campus student club. 的 journal has since inspired a popular four-course sequence of for-credit workshops, 英语 145 (146, 147, 148): 橡子审查, Editing and Publishing, which is now one of the centerpieces of our 创意写作计划 curriculum. Manuscripts and art works by Grossmont大学 students are submitted anonymously to an all-student editorial staff, who review them, then vote on pieces to select for inclusion in the next issue.

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