All creative work submissions can be sent to Manhattan Magazine’s email.
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Mack Olmsted, Senior Writer
Manhattan Magazine, the creative journal on the Manhattan University campus, is currently looking for submissions to showcase in their upcoming edition, which will be published at the end of spring semester.
The magazine has been an active club on campus since the 1970s, when Rocco Marinaccio, Ph.D., an English faculty member and the department chair for Liberal Learning, began the publication. Manhattan Magazine’s staff collects different student works, including poetry, short stories, or photography alongside other artwork, and then evaluates the different submissions, deciding on what should be approved for publication.
The review process works like a filtering system for the magazine. All of the hopeful submissions are sent to the Manhattan Magazine email and are then reviewed by the team’s submissions editor. After the work is reviewed, it is handed off to the other editors of the magazine anonymously, to ensure the review process is solely based on the quality of the content alone. Each submission is then reviewed by two different editors, who decide if the work moves to publication, needs revisions, or is rejected altogether.
Manhattan Magazine’s advisor, Adam Koehler, Ph.D. wrote to The Quadrangle acknowledging how some students might feel strange about putting their work out to be published. Kohler wanted to reassure students that the Manhattan Magazine staff is a supportive community that he described as the “perfect place” to send in creative work to.
“It will be met with generosity and curiosity and care,” Koehler wrote in an email to The Quadrangle. “These student editors are the real deal.”
Senior and Editor-in-Chief of Manhattan Magazine, Amaya Behnsman told The Quadrangle that students who are thinking about submitting their work should not fear the review process.
“Don’t be afraid, artists in general can be their own biggest critic and so usually whatever you’re producing might be better than you think it is, genuinely” Behnsman said. “So don’t be afraid to share what you have. And there’s never going to be heavy critique…we’re not going to make you feel bad … If anything, it’ll be relieving to share your art.”
Juliana Virdone, a junior digital media arts major and the visual art editor for the magazine, admires all the creativity that the publication displays. She expressed to The Quadrangle that she is proud of the variety of work that the magazine can show off to the public.
“I really honestly like how it’s a good creative outlet, that it’s a little bit different than Lotus or Logos, for example,” Virdone said. “For the magazine, there really doesn’t need to be a prompt or an idea that needs to go through a bunch of steps to be approved, or it doesn’t have to follow a specific vision that is really expected. You just can write something, or create some sort of visual piece, and then submit it to the magazine. So I think it’s really cool that we can have that kind of artistic expression.”
All creative work submissions can be sent to the Manhattan Magazine email, manhattanmagazine@manhattan.edu by their March 22 deadline.