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Unbound Winter 2012 Issue Out!
Our latest issue, Winter 2012: Volume 5, Issue 2, is now out!
Check it out here!
Kidd Competition Deadline: April 16th
Submit your fiction and poetry to the Kidd Writing Competition by 12 p.m., Monday, April 16th! The 2012 judges are Andrew Hudgins in poetry and Randall Kenan in fiction. More information can be found here
Find Unbound on Twitter
Unbound has given in and joined the world of Twitter! Follow us here. (link)
Unbound Fall 2011 Issue Now Out
Unbound's Fall 2011 issue is now up for viewing! Huge thanks to all who submitted!
Congratulations to the Winners of Our
Fall 2011 Contest!
You can find their work in the beginning of
Unbound's Fall issue!
ART: "Roses in Her Eyes" by Anna Chelsky
FICTION: "Gradients" by Amanda Berg
POETRY: "Cigarettes and Rain" by Maggie Brees
Unbound is Having an Art, Fiction,
and Poetry Contest!
Take one line from your favorite song, or another of your choosing, and use it as a prompt for a short story, poem, or as inspiration for a piece of art! Send all submissions and questions to unboundlit@gmail.com. Please include song title and name with entry.
Deadline: Monday, November 28th, 2011
Find Unbound on Facebook!
Did you know Unbound has an active Facebook page? Click the Facebook icon box to get connected now! Like our page and you'll see weekly updates on readings, events, literary releases, and more!
UO Creative Writing Program Ranked
8th in Nation!
University of Oregon's MFA Creative Writing program is now ranked 8th in the country!
Congratulations to the Winners of our 2010 Horror-Genre Contest!
You can find their work in the front of Unbound's Fall issue!
ART: "Hearts for Breakfast" by Maggie Brees
FICTION: "Black Dress" by Megan Gibbs
POETRY: "Untitled" by Stu White
UO Welcomes Danny Anderson to Staff
Help us welcome professor and poet Danny Anderson to the UO Creative Writing staff!
Creative Writing Minor Approved!
The Creative Writing minor for undergraduates at UO has been approved! You can find information about this and the Kidd Tutorials here. (link)
Letter from the Editor
Flannery O'Connor once said that a story is a "small history told in a universal light." The same could be said of poetry or art or photography—really any creative endeavor aiming to express the human experience. Artists and authors alike strive to express their message in the most effective and captivating way possible, to bring into existence a piece of power and scope. This is one of the many things we here at Unbound love about the literary arts and the reason we so strongly believe in the importance of peer editing and revision; so that we as young artists that are developing our crafts and styles can learn how to better our art, how to best convey our own histories in that "universal light." It is that community of intellectual exchange and constructive criticism that provides artists with the opportunity for creative growth and that same community that we strive to bring to the University of Oregon and Unbound.
Readings & Events
Live Lit West: Carl Swart & Jacob Berns
Friday, April 13th, 2012
Tsunami Books, 7 p.m.
Unbound Hosts First Open Mic of Spring Term
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
The Buzz, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Author Andrew Hudgins Reading at UO
Thursday, April 26th, 2012
Knight Library Browsing Room, 8 p.m.
Unbound Information Table
Wednesday & Thursday, April 25th and 26th
2012 EMU Main Lobby, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Unbound Benefit Show
Featuring Beard of Spiders, Soccer Babes, & The Great Hiatum
Thurday, May 3rd, 2012 @ 9 p.m.
Luckey's Bar, $5 Cover
Author Randall Kenan Reading at UO
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Gerlinger Hall Alumni Lounge, 8 p.m. (EMU)
Unbound Bake Sale
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
UO Duck Store, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Live Lit West: Nick Malick & MFA First Years
Friday, May 14th, 2012
Tsunami Books, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Unbound Hosted Open Mic
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
The Buzz, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Spotlight
The Spotlight section is a new addition to the Unbound website where we highlight one student artist in the areas of art, fiction, and poetry each term. For Spring term we've selected a poet, Noelle Petrowski, who has been published in all three of Unbound's 2011 issues. You can read more about Noelle and her poetry below!
Interview and article
by Bryan Atkinson
Noelle Petrowski's poem "Where Snow Comes From" (Unbound, Fall 2011) was perfectly fitting for the barrage of snow we received this year. As the Dogwood trees bloomed and the birds warmed up their vocal chords, the snow created a beautiful white backdrop for flowers but stifled the birds. It is those bittersweet qualities of nature that Noelle is drawn to.
"I think the bittersweet is where I'm finding myself going over and over again," she says. "I'm really inspired by nature, but I also think that humans screw it up a lot. I think that's often something I play with."
Unbound
Unbound is a student run online literary arts magazine at the University of Oregon that publishes undergraduate and graduate student work in the areas of art, fiction, and poetry. Unbound was founded in 2008 as a Clark Honors College thesis project and evolved into an online student publication after its founding members' experiences with University of Oregon's Literary Editing course and the University's long-running literary journal The Northwest Review. Since it's debut publication in Spring 2008, Unbound has been publishing one online issue per Fall, Winter, and Spring terms. Unbound's mission is to offer all University students a platform for their creative work and a community that allows students to share, grow, and intellectually engage in the fields of art, literature, editing, and publishing.
