The College Student Literary Magazine Conference (formerly Mid-Atlantic College Student Literary Magazine Conference) was founded at Community College of Philadelphia in 2008 where the inaugural conference took place. In 2009, the Conference moved to Ocean County College in Toms River, New Jersey.

During 2010, rather than holding the annual conference, we took some time to explore ways of making the Conference national and more accessible. In addition, our new web page will allow us to reach a broader audience and, as well, to promote student literary magazines and the many exciting student-faculty collaborations taking place nationwide. We're glad to be back, and we hope you'll join us in making the Conference an exciting opportunity for student writers, editors, artists, and, of course, their dedicated faculty advisors!

The goal of the annual Conference is to provide a student-centered platform for publications primarily or entirely written by and edited by students. Faculty advisors are also encouraged to attend the Conference to provide expert insight about publications, pedagogy, and cocurricular projects.

The conference is held each year at a host school selected by the conference committee. For more on hosting the conference, see our Host the CSLMC page.  

            CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

     This conference for student magazine editors, writers, artists, and faculty advisors is geared toward student-centered, collaborative presentations by students and faculty. Presentations may focus on any aspect of student literary magazines and may address but are not limited to:

--innovative student-faculty collaborations in and beyond the classroom

--online magazines

--financing student magazines

--developing and promoting magazines

--editorial process

--alternative expressions (e.g., CDs, podcasts etc.)

--collaborations involving student magazines and other clubs, departments, organizations

--graphic design and layout

Please send abstracts of 250-300 words, including title of presentation, names of all presenters, college affiliation, student/faculty status, along w/ brief credentials for each presenter.Please include a phone number for the main contact person.

Preference will be given to presentations in which students are the primary presenters.

Send abstracts to all four conference coordinators:

Catherine Dent, dent@susqu.edu

Seth Frechie, sfrechie@cabrini.edu

Leslye Friedberg, lfriedberg@ccp.edu

Ryan Stone, rstone@dacc.edu

Deadline for proposals is September 15, 2011.

Conference details are forthcoming.

News and Events

2011 Conference

November 4, 2011

Danville Area Community College

Danville, Illinois

Featured Speaker: Glen Retief

Glen Retief is a gifted teacher and writer whose new book The Jack Bank is a memoir of growing up white and gay in apartheid South Africa. Read more about Retief and an excerpt from his book at www.glenretief.com