Italics Mine

05/11/2020

And just like that, Italics Mine Issue 17 is live! For now, it’s only online but check back and keep in touch for details on the print issue that is yet to come. Congratulations to all who are featured, happy reading. 💛🍑

Issue 17 of Italics Mine featuring new fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, and interviews, including the winners of the inaugural writing contest on the theme of home.

02/10/2020

Congratulations to SUNY Purchase’s very own Creative Writing Professor Monica Ferrell for being chosen as a finalist for the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award! Highly prestigious, this award is given annually for a book published by a poet mid-career, and Professor Ferrell’s collection, You Darling Thing has made it to the top 5 finalists! Click around here (https://arts.cgu.edu/tufts-poetry-awards/) to learn more about the award, and here (https://fourwaybooks.com/site/darling-monica-ferrell/) to purchase You Darling Thing. Congratulations, Professor Ferrell!

02/05/2020

"Perhaps home is not a place but an irrevocable condition." -James Baldwin (American novelist, playwright, and activist)

Introducing the Italics Mine Inaugural Writing Contest! Check out the prompt on our poster and submit your best poetry, fiction, and/or nonfiction for a chance to be featured in this year's issue and win a CASH PRIZE of $150 for 1st place, and $50 for second place! Check out https://italicsmine.com/ for more detailed guidelines. Happy writing!

11/07/2019

A new round of editors means a new round of blog posts! Each of us here at Italics Mine has written a short blog post about a subject that interests us, and for the next few months we'll be posting links to them here as we release them on the website! The first two we've released are by Savannah Lopez, and Ingrid Kildiss.

You can check them out here: https://italicsmine.com/category/blog-post/

Stay tuned!

10/30/2019

Happy (almost) Halloween! Join us at 9 PM TONIGHT in Humanities 2059 for a collaborative event with Writers’ Club: Spooky Open Mic Night. Bring your favorite scary stories— ones you’ve written or heard— or just listen to others read their favorites. Come get your spook on a night early with Italics Mine!

10/29/2019

Hi all, Italics Mine is up and running again with a brand new editorial staff, and we can't wait to kick off this year with some submissions from all of you! If you're a Purchase student who makes visual art, writes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, etc., we want you to send it our way before March 4th for this year's issue! Visit our website (italicsmine.com) for specifics on how to submit, and check in regularly with us here and on our Instagram (italicsmine) for special announcements, introductions, writing prompts, resources, and more!

05/01/2019

Italics Mine’s Issue 16 launch party is happening RIGHT NOW in the Admissions Building! Come by for live readings, good food, and the chance to purchase the latest copies and merch of Italics Mine!

05/01/2019

Join us today at 4:30 in the Buffer to celebrate the launch of Issue 16!

04/30/2019

IT'S HERE!

Issue 16 of Italics Mine will be officially released this Wednesday, May 1, at our traditional launch party, which begins at 4:30 PM in the Admissions Building's Buffer Room. All are welcome!

A special selection of this issue's contributors will be giving one-time-only live readings of their newly published works, and free refreshments will be available to all attendees. Not only will the physical copies of Issue 16 will be available for purchase ($15 per copy), but we will also be selling copies of past issues ($5 each), limited edition tote bags ($7), and combo packs of totes and issues ($20). We will be accepting cash only for these items.

We at Italics Mine are so excited to finally be bringing this issue to you, and we hope to see you there to celebrate it with us!

(Pictured below: launch party of December 2017)

04/23/2019

We’re in the home stretch now! Take a moment to appreciate the wonderful staff working hard to bring you Issue 16 of Italics Mine and its upcoming launch party!

For previous issues and blog posts by this year’s editors, check out our website: https://italicsmine.com

04/15/2019

A fragment of poetry by Sappho, to inspire you at that time of the school year where burnout and exhaustion can hit the hardest. Your work is important, the creations of your heart matter, and even if you don't know it, someone somewhere will be able to connect to them. Keep writing! Keep drawing! Keep filming, composing, and creating, no matter what!

For a taste of our own magazine's creations, check out our website for past issues and blog posts: https://italicsmine.com/

04/09/2019

We hope everybody had a restful spring break!

For all our creators looking for a way to market their talents to their respective industries, the Career Development Center will be holding a training event teaching you how to build a new LinkedIn profile, or improve one you already have. Join them this Wednesday, April 10, from 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM in the Library's Room 1004B.

To get a firsthand taste of those talents, visit our website and check out past issues and blog posts: https://italicsmine.com/