Portfolio of a Wandering Bibliophile
As I began to wrap up my Bachelor of Arts program, much of my thoughts and energy began circling around personal reflection. I seemed to become enamored with reflecting on the past four years -- looking at who I was when I entered the university as a trembling teen too afraid to leave her dorm… Continue reading What does it really take to begin and operate a literary magazine?
On February 14th, we sent Volume 64 of Toyon off to print. It was a bit wild at the end. At the last minute, we heard back from the printer that the file size for our cover image was printing too softly. We had to come up with a solution quickly. For me, it felt… Continue reading 64 Off to Print
Toyon is currently accepting submissions for volume 64!
This edition of Toyon has Environmental Justice as a special topic. However, not all of the pieces within the journal are related to Environmental Justice. Upon doing a little bit of research on how literary magazines approach special topics and themes, I learned that this is not the norm. I had trouble even finding one other journal… Continue reading Special Topics in Literary Magazines
Printing and production are a means of controlling the perception of a magazine. In the essay “The Letterpress in the Mimeo Revolution," Kyle Schlesinger provides examples of different forms of magazines and how they reflect the work within them. For example, he discusses the ‘Semina no. 1’ was produced using several different paper types, fonts,… Continue reading Considerations During Production
Toyon has been in production since 1954. This spring will see the distribution of the 63rd edition of our Little Magazine. The university library hosts all 62 editions in the Humboldt Room, which serves as an archive for thousands of documents related to Humboldt County and the university. This week, the Toyon staff spent time… Continue reading Looking Back on Previous Volumes
The past two weeks have been the busiest of the semester. Submission evaluations have fallen on the two week midterm period as well as hiring season for the orientation office. For work, all of my time has been dedicated to conducting interviews, evaluations, and trainings. For school, I have been diligently preparing for midterms and working… Continue reading Submission Evaluations continued
This week marks the beginning of Submission Evaluations. Each staff member was given one to two sample pieces to evaluate this week. I used focused on literary criticism for my sample assignmenr. Our editors with BePress access will be meeting on Friday to assign submission evaluations to each staff member. Even though I will not… Continue reading Submission Evaluations and Additional Projects
Toyon Promotion and Social Media This week was all about Toyon promotion. Our submission deadline is this Friday, September 30th, and we are doing all we can to bring in more submissions. I helped our Print and Radio Media Liaison, Jacquelyn Lowe, chalk the University Quad and outside the library. The Humboldt State community is largely… Continue reading Reflection: Week Six, Advertising
This week I have been compiling a whole-staff Google Calendar that we can use a quick reference. The calendar will better allow us to coordinate events and meetings as well as observe deadlines. I am still in the process of inputting the individual semester plans of each member of our staff. I will have this… Continue reading Reflection: Week Four
