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Keeping It Lit: Nurturing a Literary Journal Program at Two-Year Colleges
Saturday, February 10, 2024
10:35 am to 11:50 am
This panel explores ways to shepherd a community college literary magazine with diverse, high-risk, low-income students. Topics of discussion include: staff recruitment, pedagogy, editing, layout, budget, advertising, submissions, course credit, and technological tools. The panelists reflect on obstacles—some common, some unique—and equity-minded solutions. Faculty advisors share experiences producing print and online student journals and fostering a vibrant literary community.
Participants
Melissa Ford Lucken is a professor of creative writing and composition at Lansing Community College, where she serves as the fiction and creative nonfiction editor of the Washington Square Review. She holds an MA in education and an MFA in creative writing. She publishes fiction as Isabelle Drake.
James Ducat is a poet and associate professor of English at Riverside City College, where he is editorial advisor to the literary magazine MUSE and teaches creative writing and composition. He holds an MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles, as well as an MA in composition/rhetoric.
Mary Lannon's unpublished novel was a finalist for the 2023 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. A professor at Nassau Community College in Long Island, New York, she advises the creative writing club. Her work appears at Story, New World Writing, and Woven Tale Press. More at MaryLannon.com.
Phoebe Reeves is professor of English at the University of Cincinnati's Clermont College. She has three chapbooks of poetry, most recently The Flame of Her Will (Milk & Cake Press). Her first full length collection, Helen of Bikini was published in March 2023 by Lily Poetry Review Press.
