Dogwood 2013 Contest Winners
Dogwood is pleased to announce the contest winners of the upcoming 2013 issue, which is available in print and via LitRagger. Dogwood is an annual journal of poetry and prose sponsored Continue reading
Interview with the Judges
By Carly Sutherland, Associate Editor (Pictured above: three associate editors–author Carly Sutherland at left, Shawna Clark, and Kalee Brunelle–prepping for the issue launch event on April 18, 2013.) Once we Continue reading
Launch Event
Dogwood held our first launch event on Thursday April 18th at the Fairfield University Bookstore. The event was organized by our student editors and attended by the journal’s staff as Continue reading
New Back Issue Content Available!
Dogwood is happy to announce that we have begun the process of adding more online back issue content for our readers to enjoy! Content for both Volume #5 (2005) and Continue reading
Rejection and Courage
By Danielle Anctil, Managing Editor As a senior undergraduate student, I’ve been spending a portion of this semester filling out applications to law schools. I’ve suddenly found myself thrown back Continue reading
Featured Artist Gordon Skinner
At a younger age, Skinner struggled with his own identity as an African-American, and according to his artist statement, he often feels like “he is part of a group that feels fragmented, colonized, and lost.”
So when he started painting, three years ago (really? yes, 2009), he wanted to “vent that sense of invisibility in a tangible way.”
A Bold New Masthead
NewPages reviewer wrote in fall of 2012 that editor Sonya Huber “aims to this university magazine in a new direction.” Those were high compliments, given the fact that Dogwood had just returned from a year hiatus.
In addition to reconsidering the submission process behind our journal, Sonya and staff have also decided that our 10-year-old publication needed a facelift.
Reality Check in the Ram Van
By Anna Wolk, Managing Editor (and soon-to-be rock star) “Don’t do it.” she said. Sleepy, warm and tired I had just muttered to my friend in the Fordham University Ram Van Continue reading
More Lit Mags We Love
This week we present five more favorite literary magazines, with descriptions written by our intrepid assistant editors: The Common: “Inspired by this mission (finding the extraordinary) and the roles of the Continue reading
Litmags our Assistant Editors Love
Adventum Magazine stands out for its innovation concerning its content in relation to aesthetics. Throughout my search, focusing on photography, this is the only magazine that I found which incorporated a Continue reading
Fall contest is open… and more
We just launched the Fall 2012 contest (all the details here), with results to be announced in Spring 2013 and to appear in Vol. 12 of Dogwood. This year we Continue reading
Judges for 2013 Announced and Riverwood Poetry Festival
We have an all-star roster of judges for Dogwood’s 2013 contest, which will open on August 1, 2012. I’ll post their bios and more information soon, but I couldn’t wait Continue reading
The First Online Content is from Maya Jewell Zeller
The staff at Dogwood has done a fantastic job not only gathering information about our past issues but also contacting our writers from the past decade. They have also sketched Continue reading
Dogwood 2012 Issue, Contents, and Contest Winners!
After a year of hiatus, and a digital rebirth, Dogwood returns this year with a brand new issue, a brand new student staff, and a brand new Editor. Sonya Huber, Continue reading
What Our Writers are Up to Now: 2002
Cecilia Woloch “Ottava Rima: Lear,” “My Mother’s Pillow,” “Nocturne” Cecilia Woloch’s pieces that first appeared in Dogwood’s 2003 issue where published in her 2003 collection, Late from BOA Editions. Susan Kelly-DeWitt ”Valerian,” Continue reading
What Our Writers Are Up to Now: 2008
James Reed “Priceless Good Will” James Reed has been an instructor of creative writing at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. While teaching, he was also the Fiction and Marketing Continue reading
What Our Writers are Up To Now: 2005
Lyn Lifshin ” Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941″ Lyn Lifshin has a few forthcoming books including All the Poets Who Have Touched Me, Living and Dead, All True: Especially the Lies, Continue reading
What Our Writers are Up to Now: 2001
Katharyn Machan “Braiding,” ”Witch” Currently Katharyn Howd Machan now as a full professor, has been teaching on the faculty of the Department of Writing at Ithaca College ever since, with Continue reading
What Our Writers Are Up to Now: 2009
Julie L. Moore, “Harnessing Infinity” & “Ancient Ritual” Julie L. Moore is the author of Slipping Out of Bloom, her first full-length book of poetry, which was published by WordTech Editions Continue reading
What Our Writers Are Up to Now: 2007
Peter Schmitt, “Cat in a Hurricane” and “Swimming Naked with the Quakers” Peter Schmitt is the author of five collections of poems, including Renewing the Vows, in which these selections Continue reading
