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Calling all Writers: Submit your Literary Work for Student Arts Magazine

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student sitting alone reading a book on Levine CampusCreative expression can help connect people with one another and opens us up to new ideas and ways of thinking. Central Piedmont’s Annual Student Arts & Literature Magazine (The Hammer) is now accepting student writing submissions for the 2022 publication. Submissions are due Sunday, March 27th for Poetry, Short Fiction, and Essay.

Here are the Genre Guidelines:

  • Poetry:  max 64 lines
  • Fiction: 200 – 3,500 words
  • Essay: max 2,500 words (2022 essay theme: “The Chrysalis”)

The best and brightest submissions will be published in the 2022 edition of The Hammer (in print and online). Please share your voice and help us show the community how amazing you are!

Line/word maximums due to spatial limitations, and are guidelines. Send submissions and/or questions to cpccwrites@gmail.com.

Spend Your Summer with SWAG

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Do you enjoy writing and sharing ideas? Need a creative space for expression? The Student Writers Assembled Guild (SWAG), a creative writing club on Levine Campus, has extended virtual meetings throughout the summer term. 

Through student-led writing prompts, SWAG members write about a variety of topics in different genres such as fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Weekly meetings also serve as a positive release during these challenging times. Recent topics have included anxieties related to the COVID-19 pandemic and inequality and social issues.

SWAG is a community safe-space to receive positive and constructive feedback. Central Piedmont alumni, currently studying at North Carolina State University, East Carolina University, Appalachian State University, Queens and Wingate Universities, return to club meetings to share their experiences with current students.

Students write poetry, short stories, and screenplays while focusing on several skills such as voice, perspective, and dialogue development.

Members are also encouraged to develop works for publication. SWAG member and current student, Michael-Michelle Pratt recently published an article for Teen Vogue, titled Growing Up Black Between Trayvon Martin and George Floyd Has My Generation at a Boiling Point. Other members are actively submitting their work for publications as well.

Meetings are held every Thursday at 4 p.m. via Zoom. Students, faculty, or staff members interested in joining SWAG for the summer are encouraged to contact Elizabeth West at elizabeth.west@cpcc.edu.