Creative Arts Journal
Ephemera: the Clark Honors College Creative Arts Journal
Ephemera, the Clark Honors College’s student-run creative arts journal, publishes a yearly, professional quality journal composed of creative work by students throughout the CHC. While the journal changes a great deal from year to year depending on the personal visions of that year’s editors, staff, and artists, the journal’s commitment to displaying high quality creative work and fostering a creative community within the CHC doesn’t change. For more information on week-to-week activities, please check the Ephemera blog and facebook page.
This fall, Ephemera will also be publishing a quarterly edition featuring freshman work. Details are below under the GET PUBLISHED! Project heading.
Questions can be directed to this year’s editors, McKenna Marsden, Alaric López, and Roxanne McKee, at hcartsjournal@gmail.com, or to the journal’s faculty adviser, Dr. Helen Southworth, helen@uoregon.edu.
Submissions
Ephemeraaccepts submissions in all genres and media from all CHC students. To submit a creative work, please send it as an attachment to hcartsjournal@gmail.com. The body of the email should include the artist’s name and any supplementary notes on the piece. Note that the artist’s name should NOT appear in the attachment itself.
Deadline for Ephemera submissions is February 1. Students should read the journal’s submission guidelines for prose or poetry (visual arts guidelines pending). Students with questions regarding their pieces viz. the guidelines should contact the editors at hcartsjournal@gmail.com.
If a piece is selected for publication, the artist will need to fill out this permission form and leave it in the Ephemera mailbox in Chapman 320.
Ephemera and the GET PUBLISHED! Project
Ephemera is collaborating with the GET PUBLISHED! Project CHIPs to create a fall quarterly publication devoted to freshman work. This will be released in the beginning of winter term at a release party as well as distributed in the CHC library. All CHIP students (which means all freshmen) are welcome and encouraged to submit their work. Students in the GET PUBLISHED! Project CHIPs, “Get Published! Aspiring Authors,” “Modern Poetry: Write to Live,” and “Visual Arts: Finding Yourself as an Artist,” will have an opportunity to work with the Ephemera staff on the publication process.
Deadline for GET PUBLISHED! submissions will be due by Friday, November 11th.
There is a special set of guidelines for this publication, to be found here. To submit a creative work, please send it as an attachment to hcartsjournal@gmail.com. The body of the email should include the artist’s name and any supplementary notes on the piece. Note that the artist’s name should NOT appear in the attachment itself. The subject of the email should include “GET PUBLISHED!” to inform the staff which publication, fall or spring, to consider the submission for.
For students whose pieces are selected for publication, there is also a special permission form to be turned into our mailbox in Chapman 320.
For more information, please visit the GET PUBLISHED! Project page.
Join the Staff!
Ephemera seeks staff members! Ephemera is run on a professional level, and students with background or interest in fiction, poetry, visual art, layout and design, or advertising can expect to gain valuable experience in their chosen field, as well as meet and collaborate with other students who share their interests. For more information on specific staff duties, please read the staff department descriptions.
Deadline for applications is October 10. Students can apply to become a staff member online. Students may also fill out one of the paper applications on the Ephemera bulletin board on the third floor of Chapman Hall and return it either to the journal’s mailbox in Chapman 320 or to the editors at one of the journal’s first two meetings.
Feedback
Everyone who submits to Ephemera (including students in the GET PUBLISHED! Project CHIPs) will receive an email outlining the staff’s reactions to his or her piece and suggestions for improvement—regardless of whether the piece is selected for publication. Students are encouraged to revise their pieces, using either the staff’s advice or their own judgment, and then resubmit them, although doing so does not guarantee publication.
Back Issues
Selected back issues of the CHC Creative Arts Journal can be found in hard copy in the CHC library, but the previous two issues of Ephemera can be found online!
