Writers write to be read, and there are many
outlets through which Grinnell Writers publish their work on
campus. The following publications are entirely student-run:
The Grinnell
Review is the college's mainstream journal of
art and literature, run this year by Elizabeth Ferrell and Kasia
Piekarz. In addition to publishing once a semester, The Review
sponsors periodic van runs to Iowa City for fiction and poetry
readings sponsored there by the University
of Iowa's Writers' Workshop and Prairie
Lights bookstore. Click the image if you want to go the The
Review's Website, or click here
to send an E-mail.
Though it is officially listed
as Grinnell's political and philosophical journal, in recent
years The GUMhas
also been where most of the satire that gets written around campus
is published. Click the image to send an E-mail inquiry.
No Pantsis a 'Zine put out by the No Pants writers' collective. Click
the image to learn more about who they are and what they're up
to, or here
to send E-mail.
The Scarlet
and Black is the weekly campus newspaper. The
S&B runs news, articles, opinion, reviews and student-drawn
comics. Click the image to go to its website.
Did you know...
The
Tanager, another literary magazine run by Grinnell
students between 1925 and 1948, published work by such Grinnell
alums as Ruth Suckow, James Norman Hall, Hallie Flanagan, and
Amy Clampitt. The magazine was open to non-Grinnell writers too:
during the years of its publication, The Tanager ran works
by Carl Sandburg, MacKinlay Kantor, Louis L'Amour, Jessamyn West,
Pablo Neruda, and Madeleine L'Engle. Paul Engle, one of the first
students to graduate from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and later
the Director most responsible for bringing the Workshop to its
current level of national and international prominence, published
poems in the magazine while he was a student at Coe College.
The first issue of The Tanager states that it was published
"quarterly for the students of Grinnell College by the English
department," but a subscription form appears in subsequent
issues, so it clearly had a
distribution beyond the local community.
Thanks to College Archivist Catherine Rod for bringing this
to our attention!
The
Tanager, another literary magazine run by Grinnell
students between 1925 and 1948, published work by such Grinnell
alums as Ruth Suckow, James Norman Hall, Hallie Flanagan, and
Amy Clampitt. The magazine was open to non-Grinnell writers too:
during the years of its publication, The Tanager ran works
by Carl Sandburg, MacKinlay Kantor, Louis L'Amour, Jessamyn West,
Pablo Neruda, and Madeleine L'Engle. Paul Engle, one of the first
students to graduate from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and later
the Director most responsible for bringing the Workshop to its
current level of national and international prominence, published
poems in the magazine while he was a student at Coe College.