The Mockingbird
The Mockingbird is the student literary/arts magazine published as a partnership between the East Tennessee State University English and Art & Design Departments. The Mockingbird staff and contributors are all students, some submitting their creative works for the first time. During the fall semester, these departments call for student submissions. The editor in chief, usually an English graduate student or undergraduate English major, brings together a reading staff who prepares the literary submissions for judges. At the same time, the Art Department arranges for digital images to be made of submissions ranging from traditional painting to cloth sculpture and other three-dimensional pieces. National and regional judges determine prize winners. In late November, judges evaluate the work, making their determinations by the beginning of the spring semester. Starting in January, students of graphic arts develop the look of the new issue, which usually has publication in late March or early April. The Mockingbird premiere party provides staff, contributors, and our community an opportunity to celebrate ETSU student creativity. We encourage all ETSU students to participate in creating The Mockingbird.
The Mockingbird welcomes its new Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Holland, and announces our 2010 literary contests for student submissions. Holland has served as a member of the literary staff for the current issue and looks forward to working with students to prepare the next issue.
Thank you for visiting our website; if you are an ETSU student, we hope to receive some of your work for consideration for an upcoming issue of The Mockingbird.
