Is one of the items on your bucket list to become a published writer or artist?
UTC undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff have that opportunity—submit original creative work to the Sequoya Review Literary Arts Magazine. Deadline for submissions for the 2015 edition is September 30, 2014. Submissions received after the deadline will be included into the submission process for the next annual issue of the Sequoya Review.
The Sequoya Review accepts submissions for poetry, short stories, prose, short plays, music, art, and photography. Submissions are welcome from students from all majors, as well as UTC faculty and staff. Here’s a sample from last year’s issue:
I woke up the next morning to the sound of the others bathing in the sink. Above the sink, in large black letters, the phrase inscribed on the wall read, “We are not prisoners; we are humans too.” As I laid awake in my bunk, I observed the same dirty cup to drink tap water and the same toothbrush to clean their teeth. “Are we humans or animals?” I thought.
My Experience in Israel by Malik Moughrabi- Page. 27 Sequoya Review 2014
Published annually, the Sequoya Review staff aims to publish engaging, immediate creative writing and visual art from the campus. All works are judged anonymously and impartially under the condition of blind submission.
“While the Sequoya Review is important to UTC, it is more important to its students who strive to get noticed for their academic, literary and artistic skills who hope to obtain a career in the creative ventures. Literary works published in the Sequoya Review are edgy, modern, realistic, scandalous, funny, motivating, educational, and fantastical,” said Emily Cahoon, Editor-in-Chief of the Sequoya Review.
The Echo Literary Magazine was first published in 1965. After undergoing several name changes, the publication became known as the Sequoya Review in the fall of 1975. The name honors Sequoya, who is credited with creating the Cherokee written language to preserve his people’s written history fused with their oral traditions.
