West Egg Literati • rock, paper, scissors

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rock, paper, scissors, showcases the work of graduate students.

Mission Statement • Submission Guidelines

The Editors of rock, paper, scissors
Believe in Beginnings

Welcome to rock, paper, scissors, a literary magazine edited by and showcasing the creative work of students in Hamline University’s Graduate School of Liberal Studies. This magazine is a platform for emerging writers and scholars at Hamline University to engage in the larger world of art and academia.

rock, paper, scissors launched its pilot issue in the fall of 2006 and contained the work of students in advanced courses of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program. These writers have a broad range of voices, yet are just a portion of the talent in the Graduate School of Liberal Studies. We hope this pilot issue, along with all future issues, will excite all readers with its strong content and unbound pages. We encourage all Hamline MFA and MALS students to submit their work to future issues of this unique magazine.

rock, paper, scissors

rps Mission Statement

The editors of rock, paper, scissors believe in beginnings. rps is meant to be a springboard into the world of publishing. We encourage writers and artists to use this forum to practice the art of submission, locally showcase writing or art that has been published elsewhere, and gain confidence in the process. We represent experiment and offer the energy and optimism of the emerging artist. This publication has been created for and is generated by students of the Graduate School of Liberal Studies at Hamline University.

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rps Submission Guidelines
The submission deadline for the next issue is June 1, 2010.

You must be a current graduate student in the GLS program at Hamline University.
Submit a cover letter, including your contact information and the title(s) of your submission.
Prose: submit up to two stories, essays, or excerpts, each no more than 3,000 words. Note whether the submission is an excerpt or not. Please use 12-point font, double-space, and number the pages of your entries.
Poetry: submit up to two poems, each no longer than two pages.
Your name must NOT appear on your submission copies—only in the cover letter.
You may submit simultaneously, however, when a piece is published by another literary body, you must contact us so that we can either withdraw the piece or run it and credit that journal in our text. (In this particular situation, in good faith, we ask that you also contact that journal regarding the simultaneous publication in rock, paper, scissors.)
All submissions must be received electronically during the specified reading period.

rock, paper, scissors is published once a year in the fall.
All submissions and correspondence should be sent to westegg@hamlineuniversity.edu.

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