Claudia Emerson's Literary Journals Web Site
For the last two years, UMW’s Arrington Distinguished Chair in Poetry, Claudia Emerson, has been leading a class of upper-level English majors interested in the intricacies of literary publishing.
Working in small groups, the students take on the task of imagining, developing, and publishing online literary journals. Each group of students must tackle questions about the scope and mission of their journal, how to solicit and evaluate submissions, and, finally, how to present their journal online in a custom-built Web site.
At literaryjournals.umwblogs.org you can peruse the students’ final products, from ecoCollective, a journal that examines the intersection between artists’ and their environments to Spindle, which seeks to “evoke a dream-like state of creation” in its presentation of prose, poetry, visual arts, music, film, performance art and craftwork.
Whether the discipline is literary arts, computer science, or history, at UMW we are regularly seeing faculty challenge students to use the Web as a platform for individual discovery and personal publication.
