Creative Writing Guide

30 North publishes works of poetry, drama, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual artwork in our annual print journal. Our pages welcome North Central College’s students and alumni, as well as student authors and artists from across the world. On our website, we publish author interviews conducted and written by our staff, and, in our community, we celebrate creative expression in all of its forms. We seek to cultivate a collaborative and generous community of writers, artists, and readers.

The Albion Review is a national literary journal based out of Albion College in Albion, Michigan. Published annually since 2004, The Review features works of short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art. The Albion Review strives to showcase the work of emerging undergraduate talents.

Here at Applause, our mission is to empower and embolden aspiring writers. We are an international undergraduate magazine seeking to uplift and amplify the voices of those writers across the country andaround the globe. In both what we publish and how we communicate with our authors, we strive to be inclusive, accepting, and above all else, kind. Whether you have dozens of published works or none at all, we are here to help you share your writing with the world, and to celebrate and applaud you.

The Blue Route is an online undergraduate literary journal run by students and faculty from Widener University. We publish short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction written by undergraduate writers from any school other than our own. There is a great deal of emerging talent in the undergraduate population, and we aim to showcase that talent in our journal. We pay our contributors $25 upon publication, and work hard to provide our contributors with a professional publication experience.

Founded in 2001, Collision Literary Magazine publishes undergraduate writing and art from all over the world. Collision accepts fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art, with a particular interest in experimental work that challenges style and structure. It is a student-run publication housed under the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh.

Dark River Review is a national undergraduate literary magazine, sponsored by the Department of Languages and Literature at Alabama State University. Our first issue was in 2014.

Equinox is a journal of contemporary literature at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. For more than 50 years, we have been publishing creative writing from the Arkansas region and beyond. We are now an online journal. Read Equinox here. We accept work from any undergraduate student in the United States. We are looking for fiction, poetry, hybrid writing, short screenplays, and visual art.

Dating back to 2000, Furrow showcases outstanding writing and art from undergraduates across the U.S. and gives UW-Milwaukee students training in editing, publishing, publication design, web design, publicity, fundraising, and business practices. Through the generous support of local donors and the UW-Milwaukee Department of English, we publish a full-color, print issue of the journal every May and feature new work regularly on our website. Our goal is to connect student writers and artists with a broader network of creative spirits within and beyond Milwaukee. We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and comics from undergraduates all across the U.S.

Glass Mountain, the undergraduate literary journal at the University of Houston, is run by undergraduate students for undergraduate students, with the wants, needs, and curiosities of the emerging artist in mind. Forward-thinking and -moving, Glass Mountain is aimed at inspiring creativity, encouraging growth within a craft, and teaching undergraduate students the process of publishing—and getting published—with a can-do attitude. It continually seeks new ways of connecting emerging literary and visual artists on a national level with their seasoned contemporaries in an effort to foster collective growth. Regardless of genre, style, or even language, Glass Mountain invites all undergraduates to join in our celebration of the spirit of community.

The Kudzu Review is Florida State University’s premiere undergraduate journal of literature and art. We publish biannually, producing magazines that feature exceptional work from undergraduate creatives across the country. Our submissions usually open in September and January.

Mangrove is the undergraduate literary journal at the University of Miami, publishing student art and writing that pulses with human language, sits under our skin and settles into our soul. Give us your best creative works, and we will give them a loving home.

It is our mission to provide a fresh outlet for new and young artists to express themselves, their ideas and passions to the world through the medium of print. We are fellow undergraduates committed to showcasing literary and artistic works from our peers

Plot Number Two is an online literary journal run by a group of undergraduate students at Ashoka University that seeks to provide a common platform for budding authors and poets across the world to share their work. Perhaps the first of its kind to come from South Asia, it is meant for Undergraduate students who wish to extend the reach of their writing beyond private audiences and read and appreciate the work of other students from across the globe. We are interested in stories that have a strong sense of place, underrepresented literary cultures and themes. We accept fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry as well as works on books, film and television.

Polaris Literary Magazine is an award winning national undergraduate magazine. As an undergraduate magazine, our mission is all about providing opportunities for undergraduates. We want undergraduate writers from around the United States to have a chance to publish their work in a professional quality national venue, building their confidence, and their publishing credentials. We also strive to create a welcoming community for undergraduates on Ohio Northern University campus through the student organization that is Polaris, and through offering professional development opportunities for our student editors through paid competitive positions. Additionally, we hope to provide the satisfaction to our student editors, student staff, and published writers, of having tangible proof of their work in the form of a magazine with their name in it.

Prairie Margins publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. The journal is open for submissions from September through March each year.

Quirk: The Literary Journal of the University of the Incarnate Word

Established in 1963 at Michigan State University, Red Cedar Review is the longest-running undergraduate-managed publication in the United States. We are proud to feature exclusively the work of writers and visual artists with limited publication experience.

The Roadrunner Review is an online literary journal produced by students at La Sierra University, a Seventh-day Adventist institution. We publish three issues a year.

We’re a national online literary annual, compiled and edited by BFA students in The Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. We feature the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry we can get our hands on, all of it written by undergraduates.

“Short Vine is a literary journal dedicated to sharing creative works of all genres from undergraduate students. We were founded by Katie Hartsock in 2003. Our first edition came out in 2003 and is still published by undergraduates at UC today. While we originally started as a student-run organization, we are now run by the Creative Writing and Literary Publishing class at UC.

Sink Hollow discovers and celebrates exceptional undergraduate literature and art. We value pieces that light fires strong enough to survive a freeze. We call for works that call back, that echo, that stun, that sink inside us and stay. Whoever you are, we ask you to give us your words, your art, your passion—and in return we’ll give your piece a place to call home.

Violet Margin (formerly Alchemist Review) is a literary journal at the University of Illinois Springfield. Each year, we publish an annual print journal in April consisting of works from undergraduate students across the country, after having published work by only UIS students and alumni until 2019. Violet Margin is a journal of prose, creative nonfiction, translation, poetry, and visual arts dedicated to publishing dynamic works by undergraduate writers and artists across the country. With an appreciation for print culture, as well as digital technologies and mixed media, Violet Margin provides a forum for collaboration and exploration within the ever-evolving world of literary publishing. Violet Margin is edited by students at the University of Illinois Springfield.

Zaum, which has just released its 28th print issue this spring, is entirely edited and designed by students. Any student, at either SSU or any other university, may submit their work to Zaum. Each issue publishes over 100 pages a year of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or visual art, providing students with professional experience in layout, design, and marketing. The magazine is distributed throughout the Bay Area, and also receives national and international distribution, as many contributors are students in other states and countries. Zaum has received several national student awards from the Associated Writing Programs: for editorial vision (1996), and for graphic design (1998). Multiple student works featured in Zaum have also been nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize, a national prize open to any writer in the country.