Scripps College Journal

April is National Poetry Month! We’re celebrating with the piece Especially Now by Blake Lapin a submission which won the Poetry Award in the Scripps College Journal 2019 Writing & Art Contest. Get excited for the 2021 edition of the journal

After the horrific white supremacist murder of eight people in Atlanta last week, we recognize it’s a difficult time for many AAPI-identifying students. If you’re AAPI-identifying and submitting work, your new submission deadline is April 1. Take care of yourselves and each other, and don’t hesitate to use campus resources like Monsour's Counseling Services. ... For more resources and ways to help, please visit https://anti-asianviolenceresources.carrd.co/ or search Anti-Asian Violence Resources.

Get ready for the most important event of 2021! Submissions are now open! Sick of Zoom meeting after Zoom meeting? Tired of this brave new world of breakout rooms? Where do you turn for comfort and catharsis when the camera’s off? Has the call of the void become the call of the canvas? Whether you pour your angst into notes app poetry, capture the changing world on camera, or think fiction is preferable to real lifewe want to see the fruits of your troubled labor. ... Scripps College’s own 21-year-old annual literary magazine, Scripps College Journal, is accepting submissions from across the 5C’s in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art/photography, and multimedia. Submit your creative work by 3/25 for a chance to be published and entered into a contest for a VISA gift card! Submit here: tinyurl.com/scjsubmit2021

JOIN THE 2021 TEAM! Apply at tinyurl.com/scjstaff2021 by November 2. Meet your peers and create some incredible things together. We've got some mindblowing new tools in the works to make our transition online as easy as possible. Despite the remote semester, there's never been a more exciting time to work at SCJ.

The wait is just a little bit longerwe’re figuring out distribution of our incredible new Spring 2020 issue with an empty campus. At least we can animate our posters when we're not taping them to your dorm's entrance. Stay tuned.

Scripps College Journal *unequivocally* stands with Black Lives Matter, as well as BIPOC, FG/LI students at the Claremont Colleges. Existing safely at a PWI is a huge and monumental battle in itself. As a literary magazine, we would be remiss in our duties if we didn’t voice our support for abolishing the policeas well as the violent, anti-Black carceral system that has upheld and sustained law enforcement’s perpetuation of racist brutality and murder. We condemn the use of ...policing to terrorize Black Claremont students. We stand with a Palestinian Muslim 5C student, doxxed as the violent invasion of Palestine escalates, and we stand against imperialism perpetuated by the United States around the world. We stand with students who are currently or always have been fearing deportation by ICE. We deeply value the work of our Black contributors, without whom this magazine wouldn’t be complete, and we hope that we’re always a forum for all of the most marginalized voices of our community to articulate their ideas. And the incredible significance of Black contributions to the national and global collective of art cannot ever be overstated. We hope you’re staying safe when protesting and send you love and strength to continue the fight. If you aren’t BIPOC, understand BIPOC anger and practice anti-racism. Donate to bail funds and call your reps. Below, you’ll find a link to a library of Black revolutionary texts by Angela Davis, James Baldwin, bell hooks, Frantz Fanon, and so many others. Our leadership knows all too well how the pipeline works. We will double down when it comes to educating our own staff, which we don’t do nearly enough. Unlike too many spaces on campus, SCJ strives to be a flexible & safe work environment where your ideas are valued, not silenced. In solidarity, forever & always. tinyurl.com/BlackRevolutionaryTextsForFree

We miss seeing you all on campus and hope that you are finding some stability in your current spaces. One tradition that has grounded and inspired us throughout the years has been our ability to feature the creative work of 5C students in the Scripps College Journal. In light of current events, we were unsure that publishing the journal would be possible this year. We were heartbroken at the thought of our student artists not being able to see their work in print, at our comm...unity not being able to share the creativity of our campus, and even for our team, who put so much into getting ready for this year’s issue. Thus, we are delighted to inform you that we will be moving forward with this year’s issue! We will be keeping the issue on campus for all students to retrieve once in-person classes resume and plan to postpone all events related to the finished publication until then. While we may have had to deal with some unexpected turns, it is with great pride that we uphold the Scripps College Journal’s tradition of annual publication. We look forward to seeing you all once we’re back on campus, journals in hand! SCJ’s Editorial Team

Huge thank you to everyone who joined us at our creative social yesterday and made the event a success! Lots of students were able to work on prompts, enjoy snacks, and discuss ideas in the creative space and comfort of the Motley. It was amazing to see everyone’s passion and creativity! We have also received 229 submissions for this edition, which is the HIGHEST number we’ve received yet! Big thanks to everyone who submitted work, and we look forward to finalizing the submissions in the upcoming week.

SCJ’s editors Mirabella Miller and Crystal Juan interview R.O. Kwon, the current Scripps College's Mary Routt Chair of Writing and nationally recognized author. Her debut novel THE INCENDIARIES explores the loss of faith that arrested both her and her characters’ lives. This semester, she teaches a writing class titled Eye-Opening Writing and invites fellow creatives such as Jia Tolentino and Maureen Corrigan to campus to speak. We ask her about grief, creative process, teaching, and more.

ONE DAY LEFT TO SUBMIT! Once you’ve submitted your work, you’ll get a confirmation notice from the online form, assuring that we received your work. Our editors will be looking through any and all submissions, and making edits. We will reach out to you with any major editing suggestions, and you can choose whether you would like to make them. By the end of March we will notify you as to whether your work will be published in our next issue!!! Tomorrow is your LAST CHANCE to be considered, so please submit your work by the end of the day. Link: https://forms.gle/gD4hzKQdTotKCMQm9 (Photo by: Olina Wong)

TWO DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT One of our favorite parts of publishing the journal is choosing the cover art for the issues. We choose our cover art through a few different systems, which assure that it is both evocative and representative of the journal’s values. First, we set aside our highest rated student art submissions, which is voted on by our staff members. From these, we decide which piece best captures the theme of the submissions for that issue, so that we integrate a message that was created to us by all of you! We look forward to choosing our next piece. For a chance to submit your art as our cover, please be sure to submit within the next two days!!

THREE DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT This is the cover of one of our favorite past issues, published in Spring 2015. This was our 16th volume our front cover was designed by alumna Maya Espiritu, and our back cover was a photo that we found from the Claremont Colleges Photo archive. We had two incredible Sands Award essays, one about Banksy and one about Cyber-Protests. For a chance to join the SCJ legacy, please submit by February 26th. Link: https://forms.gle/gD4hzKQdTotKCMQm9 (Photo by: Olina Wong)

FIVE DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT! Currently reliving some of our favorite past issues, we invite you all to be a part of our next one. With a tradition of publishing some of the most talented artists and writers on campus, we strive to give voices to all types of creators. We invite anyone interested in contributing to this collection of student artists to submit within the next five days if you would like to see your work published and become a part of such an amazing collection! Submit by February 26th: https://forms.gle/gD4hzKQdTotKCMQm9