What this is

The magazine

We publish one issue each semester — two a year — in four sections: poetry, prose, art and photography. Work is chosen by a staff of student editors who read every submission that comes in.

The magazine exists because a school produces an enormous amount of good work that nobody outside one classroom ever sees. A poem written for an assignment, a photograph taken on the way to school, a painting that went home in a folder. This is where those go instead.

Who can submit

Any student enrolled at Century, in any grade. You do not need to be in a writing class, an art class, or on the magazine staff. You do not need to have been published before, and most of the people in each issue haven't.

Submit as many pieces as you like, in as many sections as you like.

How work is chosen

• Every submission is read by the student editors.
• We read for what the piece is trying to do and whether it does it — not for polish, and not for whose name is on it.
• You'll hear back either way before the issue goes out.
• If a piece isn't taken for one issue, it can be sent again to the next.
• Nothing appears on this site until an editor has accepted it.

Your work stays yours

Publishing here doesn't sign anything away. You keep every right to your own writing, art and photographs. What you're giving us is permission to print the piece once — in the issue and on this site — with your name on it. If you later want a piece taken down, ask and we'll take it down.

Content and editing

We publish work about difficult things, because students write about difficult things. If a piece deals with something a reader might want warning about, tell us on the submission form and we'll print a content note alongside it.

We edit lightly and only for typos and clear errors. Anything larger, we come back and ask you first. We will not change what a piece is saying.

Contact us

Questions about submitting, a piece you want taken down, or anything else — send it here and it reaches the editors. If you are submitting work, use the submission form instead, so it goes into the reading pile properly.

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