A Penn State Literary Magazine
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Your name will be removed when this is reviewed; only the editor (Sam Hopkins) will know you wrote this. And only the coeditor
will know how people score it. Everyone else has the privilege of judging it objectively.
"Everyone else" means anyone who wanders into the weekly meeting at which your submission is reviewed (you can go, too! It's a good way to get very honest feedback). For more info on meetings, visit the about page.
We pride ourselves on considering each submission at length, discussing lines we love, potential deeper meanings, or where the piece falls just short of our expectations. We also like to hold a poem on its side to see if it makes a groovy shape. Each staff member gives each submission a number from 1 – 10, and at the end of the semester we average all the scores for all the pieces. The top 50 (give or take) make it in!
If you have an account on this website, you'll automatically get an email telling you which of your submissions we've published. If you don't... We'll try to remember to email you! Either way, these emails will come around the end of the academic semester (December in the fall, May in the spring).