BiFrost offers publishing opportunity
Bridget Donovan
Issue date: 11/20/09 Section: News
Is the next Mark Twain, Andy Warhol or Ansel Adams at Grand View? Students can submit their writing, art and photography to Bifrost, Grand View's literary magazine, by Dec. 1, to find out.
Dr. Paul Brooke, head of the Humanities Department and faculty adviser for Bifrost, said that all Grand View students are welcome to submit their work.
According to this year's rules, fiction and nonfiction stories have a 4000-word maximum, while poetry has a 500-word maximum. Any writing can be submitted to Meghan Heward-Easter, English junior and this year's editor of Bifrost, by CD or e-mail at meghan.heward-easter@grandview.edu.
All photos, black and white or color, can be submitted on CD to Doug Wells, professor of photography, in the Cowles Communication Building. Wells can be contacted at dwells@grandview.edu.
The rules state that all media of art may be accepted, but the main focus is on mixed-media and printmaking this year. Artwork can be submitted to Josh Ryther, assistant professor of Art and Design, at jryther@grandview.edu or in the Rasmussen Building.
Ryther said, "I encourage anybody that makes art to give me images of their work so that I can present it to Bifrost."
Entries should have a short biography with them. Students are allowed two entries per category and are welcome to submit to multiple categories.
"We have students who are doing multi-disciplinary work, so it's kind of neat to see the combinations," Brooke said.
Brooke said alumni usually judge the submissions. The judges choose which submissions will appear in the magazine and the top three entries in each category. The top three entries win $50, $30 and $20, respectively.
Besides prize money, Brooke said students should submit work to the magazine "because they can put them in their portfolio, it's something they can put on their resume and it's just cool to get published."
Dr. Paul Brooke, head of the Humanities Department and faculty adviser for Bifrost, said that all Grand View students are welcome to submit their work.
According to this year's rules, fiction and nonfiction stories have a 4000-word maximum, while poetry has a 500-word maximum. Any writing can be submitted to Meghan Heward-Easter, English junior and this year's editor of Bifrost, by CD or e-mail at meghan.heward-easter@grandview.edu.
All photos, black and white or color, can be submitted on CD to Doug Wells, professor of photography, in the Cowles Communication Building. Wells can be contacted at dwells@grandview.edu.
The rules state that all media of art may be accepted, but the main focus is on mixed-media and printmaking this year. Artwork can be submitted to Josh Ryther, assistant professor of Art and Design, at jryther@grandview.edu or in the Rasmussen Building.
Ryther said, "I encourage anybody that makes art to give me images of their work so that I can present it to Bifrost."
Entries should have a short biography with them. Students are allowed two entries per category and are welcome to submit to multiple categories.
"We have students who are doing multi-disciplinary work, so it's kind of neat to see the combinations," Brooke said.
Brooke said alumni usually judge the submissions. The judges choose which submissions will appear in the magazine and the top three entries in each category. The top three entries win $50, $30 and $20, respectively.
Besides prize money, Brooke said students should submit work to the magazine "because they can put them in their portfolio, it's something they can put on their resume and it's just cool to get published."
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