Litmag is a multi-national award-winning student-run literary and art journal published annually each spring through the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) English Department. Since its founding in 1983, Litmag has provided an avenue to showcase the creativity of the UMSL community. Although student-run, Litmag publishes work across the entire UMSL campus and beyond, featuring students, alumni, faculty, and staff. We produce a high-quality journal that gives burgeoning writers and artists a venue to be proud of their work and experience with the process of professional publishing.
UMSL’s community is essential in the publication of our journal. We hope this publication nurtures the unique creative expression only UMSL’s campus can provide. Litmag highlights literature and art speaking to different experiences. Thank you for sharing your stories with us.
Litmag is proud to be available both digitally and in print.
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SUBMIT YOUR WORK TO LITMAG
Accepted Genres:
- Poems
- Fiction/Short stories of 4,000 words or less
- Creative nonfiction/Personal essays of 4,000 words or less
- Multilingual writing (translation)
- Art (digital images of photographs, sculptures, comics, paintings, drawings, etc.)
JOIN THE CLASS
Editing LitMag (ENGL 4895) is an internship course designed to provide students with hands-on experience in the editing and publishing industry. The primary goal is to produce a quality undergraduate journal of art and literature drawn from across the UMSL student body. Students enrolled in the class take on the role of editors, exploring current thinking on poetry, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and visual artistry with the goal of refining literary tastes and developing editorial judgment. Throughout the semester, student editors develop skills in public relations and professional correspondence, editorial tact and confidentiality, book design and formatting, copy editing, event planning, and publicity. Students may count this course as a capstone for the Creative Writing or Professional Writing Certificates.
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Explore Litmag's History
Litmag has a rich and long history at UMSL. Check out our archives, read back issues, and see what makes our publication so special.
