Presenter: Lugh Hermes Hudson

Group Members: Sara Marie Boisvert

Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Poulin

School: Greenfield Community College

Research Area: Art & Design

Session: Poster Session 4, 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM, Concourse, B1

ABSTRACT

In our internship with Greenfield Community College's Plum Literary Review, we studied the process of publishing and creating a literary and visual arts journal. The methodologies used were; recording our experiences and thoughts, emailing other college publications, contacting college print shops, and reaching out to classes and workshops to inform their students of Plum Literary Review. This project has allowed us to learn what a literary review is, what to expect in the process of publishing, who we can contact for publication advice, and how to set manageable tasks and divide work. We also found where we should market, who we should contact to market, and how to design the site and flyer layouts. At the time of writing this abstract, we have not started to review submissions or collectively agreed what makes a decent and impactful submission. We expect that we will learn as a group what our expectations are for published material via the process of review; how to review, and how to coordinate with selected authors on their submissions. Although we are in the initial stages of the internship, we have a practical understanding of how to operate and plan a literary journal at an operational level.