Analecta

Analecta is IU South Bend’s award-winning literary journal. It is published once a year under the guidance of a student editor who selects the best poetry, fiction, drama, and artwork from IUSB students. Recent editors include Austin Veldman (2018), Jon Adams (2017), Lucas Burkett (2016), Chad Forbregd (2015), Angie Rice (2014), Mackenzie Jarvis (2013), Jeff Tatay (2012), Terrie Phillips (2011), Mitch Robinson (2010), Naoko Fujimoto (2009), Vince Bauters (2008), Talia Reed (2007), and Rebecca Gerdes (2006).

Visit Analecta’s web page for updates: http://iusbanalecta.wordpress.com/

2018 Editor Announcement

The editor for the 2019 edition of Analecta is Frankie Spring

And the Faculty Advisor is Kelcey Parker Ervick.

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How and when to submit:

Submission deadline is February 1, 2019.
All submissions are automatically considered for publication in Analecta as well as for recognition in the English Department’s Annual Student Writing Awards.

1. Manuscript preparation:  

A. Put your name, student ID number, genre (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, etc), and e-mail address on the first page of the manuscript. Do not include your name elsewhere because we want to read your manuscript “blind” (without knowing the author).
B. Submit your manuscript as an attachment; do not paste it into the body of the email. Prose should be double-spaced, but poetry can be single-spaced. Comics may be scans or photos merged into a Word doc or PDF.
C. Please use your IUSB email address to make your submission.

2. Send all submissions to analecta.iusb@gmail.com 

3. Please use Analecta Submission [insert genre], as the e-mail subject/title header.

Genre Rules

• Poetry: 1 to 3 poems, maximum of 6 pages
• Short Fiction: 1 story, or up to 3 flash stories; maximum of 3,000 words.*
• Drama: 1 one-act or excerpt of full-length play or screenplay (no musicals); maximum of 20 pages*
• Non-fiction Prose: 1 work of creative non-fiction, maximum of 3,000 words*
• Visual Art: 3-7 images
• Comics: 3-7 standalone comics, or 1 complete strip/story*

*Works accepted may be excerpted

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Angie Rice (right) with the 2014 Analecta. Steph Foreman (left) is holding the Graduate Research Journal.

Congratulations to Mitch Robinson, whose issue of Analecta was released at the English Department Writing Awards Ceremony on Saturday, April 10. The first Analecta Live Issue was held at Chicory Cafe on May 1, 2010.

The gorgeous 2009 Analecta!

The 2009 Analecta

The 2007 Analecta edited by Talia Reed

Vince Bauters reveals the 2008 Analecta

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Analecta Editor Position

At the beginning of each academic year, the IU South Bend Publications Board announces a call for applications for the position of Editor of our student literary journal, Analecta. (Applicants must be currently enrolled at IUSB.)

Duties include: advertising for submissions, reading and deciding on submitted work (poems, stories, nonfiction, artwork) to be included in the issue, finding and working with an artist on the cover and design, creating a file of the final issue to send to the publisher, working with the publisher to make sure the journal is available in April, etc.

This is a paid position: $600 stipend.

 

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