By ALLI SCHIEBER
Editor-in-Chief
Northwestern is getting a student magazine on campus.
Alabaster Echoes will be a student magazine with artwork and stories submitted by students earlier this semester and is a collaboration between the art club and writers round table.
With the art department and art society deciding what will be submitted amongst the photos and artwork submitted and the English department and writers round table deciding between any poems and short stories submitted. Altogether they had 58 submissions.
The goal for this year is to get people familiar with it and see what they can do differently to make it better next year Brendan Stephens, assistant professor of English said.
They are going to be accepting at least one submission from everyone that submitted work Stephens said.
They hope to have the magazine ready by Creativity Fest which is April 4.
Creativity Fest they will have people sharing poems and songs as well as artwork and they want to be able to encourage people to check out the magazine there.
They want to have the magazine both in print and online so that the students have something they can see and hold with their work published.
Stephens said that he wanted to do a magazine because some of his first published work was in a literary magazine at the college he attended. He also said it was a great way for him to be introduced into the art and writing world.
Stephens also said it’s a chance for people to express themselves and that was an outlet that Northwestern didn’t have.
Right now, the plan is to publish the magazine once a year and next year will be less of trying to get people to know about it Stephens said.
It is possible in the future for them to publish once a semester and maybe even have an online presence with videos.
Members of the writers round table seemed excited on Tuesday while helping make decisions of which stories they want to get published.
For many students this is their first publication.
The opportunity to have a piece published can help students find a love for their hobby or give them hope for more pieces to get published.
Ultimately Alabaster Echoes goal is for students to feel like there art matters.
In the future the English department is hoping for more submissions and being able to encourage people to submit pieces after they actually see the final product.
For more information on Alabaster Echoes contact Brendan Stephens
Email: bcstephens@nwosu.edu
Office: Vinson Hall 214
