Club Spotlight: Esprit Literary Magazine
Esprit Literary Magazine Head Editors, Bethany Belkowski, Editor-In-Chief,Britney Walsh, Production Manager and Katie Till, Technology Manager.In an occasional series, Royal News spotlights clubs from the university’s 100+ student organizations on campus, speaks to members and offers information on how to connect with the clubs.
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GET INVOLVED
Club: Esprit Literary Magazine
Meet: Britney Walsh '24, biology major with an English minor from Scranton, Pennsylvania,
Role in the Club: Production Manager.
"As Production Manager, I work alongside the technology manager and a small team of editors who will put together the accepted pieces and build the magazine. I also work with Printing Services here at the University to print the magazine that we will hand out all over campus."
Connect: @uofs_esprit
By: Ryan Sophabmixay '24, student correspondent
Q. What is your club/organization’s mission?
"Esprit, the review of arts and letters, is a literary magazine published once each semester featuring work submitted by students here at the University of Scranton. All pieces submitted for publication to Esprit are reviewed anonymously by the editorial staff. Esprit supports free expression and values the recognition and distribution of students’ creativity and talent in the written and visual arts."
Q: Why would you recommend someone join?
"The best way for someone to get involved with Esprit is to submit! If you have any creative work, whether it’s poetry, a short story, or a graphics piece, I highly encourage anybody and everybody to submit their work for consideration. Once submitted, students who have submitted and/or get published in the magazine have the opportunity to be invited to join the staff."
Q. Please share the format of a typical meeting. When and where does the organization meet?
"The editorial team meets every Thursday in CLP where we conduct practice edits on creative pieces from other college literary and arts magazines. These practice sessions help prepare the editorial staff for when the larger editing session occurs. The larger editing sessions occur during two weekends after the submissions deadline where we carefully go through all of the pieces that we received from students."
Q: Any upcoming plans for the spring semester?
"We usually do a few table sits on second floor of DeNaples throughout the semester, where you can learn more about submitting to the magazine as well as receive vintage copies of past publications. At the end of the semester, we always do a reading where the artists and writers are given the opportunity to talk about their work.
This semester, the due date for submissions is Friday, April 5! All work can be submitted by email to espritsubmissions@scranton.edu ."
Q: What, in your opinion, are the most exciting events or activities you present?
"I know for myself and for a lot of other members on staff, the most exciting event is the reading of the magazine at the end of the semester. At the reading we give out awards for three categories, Poetry, Prose and Graphics, that are chosen by the award judges. It’s really lovely to be able to hear what the writers and the artists say about their pieces as well as hearing everyone read their work."
