Students in Writing Studies 4200, “Writing and Cultures,” will edit a collection of creative writing (visual art, poems and nonfiction writing) entitled "Through my Eyes" -- How we perceive world issues, crises or maybe even beauty. As such, they solicit writings from everyone (students, alumni, and the broader community) on this topic for inclusion in the collection.
Submissions could address the ways that we use our own experience to think about local, global, international or interpersonal issues.  Or, they could address the ways that local, global, international or interpersonal issues change the ways that we understand our own experiences.  

Submissions should be less than 5,000 words (20 typed pages) for essays and journals; poetry submissions should include no more than five individual poems and no one poem of more than five pages in length.  Artworks in any digital format are accepted.  

Submissions will be reviewed by students in the class and by faculty with related expertise.
Authors retain all copyright of their work; we seek only permission for first publication in the collection, which will live on the Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project and as a Kindle book.
Please submit your work to: dbeard@d.umn.edu by February 1, 2025. In the Subject line, please indicate >Submission for "Through my Eyes"<