All-staff meeting!

By now, all applicants in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and drama, should have heard from one of our editors. We’re looking forward to meeting new and returning staff at our first (and only) all-staff meeting on Friday, October 7, at 5pm in LOH 174. Come and learn about the editorial process, and meet your fellow genre readers.

Special call for art and photography applications!

Art and photography students: we need you! Fishladder is still accepting applications from students interested in joining our editorial staff and evaluating submissions of art and photography. We’re proud to feature great visual art alongside great writing, but we need your help! Please download the application below and see the instructions on the form about how to turn it in. We’d love to have you on board.
Please apply by Monday, October 3rd!

FAQs
-The time commitment is flexible, and relatively light.
-Staff members can still submit their own work for possible publication.
-These positions are unpaid.

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Now accepting applications for ’11-’12!

EDITED 9/24: THANK YOU for all your applications. The returning genre editors are meeting this coming week to go over applications and select genre staffs. You will hear from Fishladder via email in the next week or so.

Fishladder is now accepting applications from Grand Valley State University students interesting in working on the magazine. Would you like to help make editorial selections in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, art, or photography? Do you have previous Fishladder experience and you’d like to become an assistant head editor or genre editor? Are you interested in layout or design of the magazine? We’d love to hear from you. Please download an application, fill it out, and return it to LOH 326 by 9/23.
Looking forward to working with you!

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Unveiling Reception!! April 15!

Yay! The Spring 2011 edition of fishladder will be unveiled at the reception on April 15th at 6pm in Lake Ontario Hall 164!

There will be food.
There will be readings & artist talks.
There will be free copies of fishladder!

This is an open event, so invite your friends & fellow writing or English majors!

Love,

Your 2010-2011 fishladder staff.

Decision Time…

The Fishladder editors have read all the submissions for this year’s edition, and are still making final decisions. Authors and artists should hear back via email soon about their submissions. Thanks for your patience, and for letting us consider your work!

Changes to art/photo requirements and deadline!

Reminder that the deadline for nonfiction, fiction, poetry & drama is December 18!

FOR PHOTO/ARTWORK, PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

1. Dimensions
2. Whether or not your artwork/photograph is available for an exhibition in Lake Ontario Hall from March through June of 2011
3. Media/medium

Photography and art submissions should be flattened TIFF files with a resolution of at least 300 dpi. Color works should be CMYK format.

DEADLINE FOR ART/PHOTO: Monday, January 24th!

Submissions emails:
photo.submissions.fishladder@gmail.com
art.submissions.fishladder@gmail.com

Looking forward to your submissions,

Fishladder Staff

Time to submit!

It’s that time again, the time to Submit to fishladder!

Deadlines are due before December 18, and we can’t wait to see what you’ve been working on!

Staff Meeting

Fishladder’s all-staff meeting for ’10-’11 will take place Sun. 10/10, at 7pm in LOH 174. All applicants for staff positions should have heard from one of our genre editors by now, and we hope to see you there!

Fall 2010 applications

The editors are beginning work on this year’s Fishladder. Applications for submission readers, genre editors, assistant head editor, and other positions are currently being accepted. Pick up an application at the Writing Department Office in LOH 326.

Unveiling Event

The fishladder staff will be hosting an unveiling event on April 16th at 6 pm to celebrate the release of the Spring 2010 edition. The event will be held in Lake Ontario Hall 164, and will include food, fun and presentations and readings from some of the published authors and writers. We will also have copies of the journal there, so please come by, pick one up and celebrate our new release with us!

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