Black & White

The following is an e-mail regarding the campus literary publication, Black and White.

Black & White would like to invite you to submit your work and encourage the submission of work by your graduate and undergraduate students alike. We have an especially difficult time raising awareness for the journal among graduate students since the entire Black & White staff is comprised of undergraduates (although graduates are welcome to participate), and we ask that you mention the publication to your students.

The deadlines for the Black & White, Spring 2009 submissions are Sept. 30, Oct. 31 and November 30, 2008. Contributors who submit work by the October deadline will be notified as to whether their work was accepted before the winter break. Submissions can be sent to wcsujournal@gmail.com. There are no restrictions on content or form, and we accept artwork as well.

For those students interested in working on the journal, our meetings are held on the top of floor of the student center every Tuesday and Wednesday from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. The room varies between 226, 228 and 202A, but if you go up the stairs you can see which room we happen to be in. There is regular work for:
staff writers (featured weekly in the Echo)
editors
layout editors
business, marketing and PR managers
recording engineers
voice actors
event planners
and many more

We also encourage faculty members to stop by and observe at least one meeting this semester.

Our goal last year was to create a high quality publication in which our contributors could be proud to have their work published. While we did manage that, we spent most of the first semester waiting for content, and the second semester scrambling to put the book together with the few remaining club members. This year we aim to not only produce a high quality publication, but create a functioning editorial environment and business-like organization in which club members can gain valuable experience, and which can expand in any way there is a desire to among club members. Some club members, for example, are currently working on producing a live WestConn-themed murder mystery with WXCI on Halloween night. And as you may have noticed, we now have a weekly section in the echo. There is discussion among club members about creating a business and marketing team to raise awareness for the magazine to a national level.

Thank you for your interest and support.

Sincerely,
Kevin McNulty-DeNunzio

Jake Kara