2008 Woodie Awards
UCM Literary Mag Releases New Issue
Jen Braaten/Muleskinner
Issue date: 1/25/07 Section: Features
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UCM officials recently changed the school's letters around to make a name more fitting for an institution garnered with state and national respect for its programs.
But this isn't an article devoted to the already well-known teacher education program, or criminal justice program; nor the two-time, national crowned baseball team.
Rather, the English department, tucked away in Martin Building has produced another issue of the literary magazine called Pleiades that claims its own recognition across the country as one of the foremost publications of its kind.
Pleiades selects submissions of fiction, poetry, essays and book reviews from authors around the world to appear in its bi-annual publication.
Pleiades' editors, who also appear as instructors in the English department, seem less-concerned about awards and more focused on the work their magazine is featuring.
"I think literary magazines are labors of love," said Wayne Miller, co-editor. "It's exciting to publish a writer fresh out of the gates; to give them a chance."
Papers, folders, books and more papers are piled high, yet somehow neatly arranged in the offices of Miller and editor, Kevin Prufer.
Taking a brief moment for an interview, Prufer puts his current read on his desk, delighted to answer questions about Pleiades.
"We receive about 16,000 manuscripts and publish 70," Prufer said. "[Pleiades] existed back in the 1930s, but became a national magazine in the '90s when Rose Marie Kinder took over as editor."
"Pleiades was an in-house publication," said Kinder, editor emeritus.
The magazine then became an outside publication and published writers across the United States. Free copies sent to Missouri libraries and elsewhere helped to get the work noticed.
"[Prufer] moved it to another level," Kinder said. "Some of the best writers want to be published in it."
Success of the magazine rings loud, so could Pleiades become independent of the University?
But this isn't an article devoted to the already well-known teacher education program, or criminal justice program; nor the two-time, national crowned baseball team.
Rather, the English department, tucked away in Martin Building has produced another issue of the literary magazine called Pleiades that claims its own recognition across the country as one of the foremost publications of its kind.
Pleiades selects submissions of fiction, poetry, essays and book reviews from authors around the world to appear in its bi-annual publication.
Pleiades' editors, who also appear as instructors in the English department, seem less-concerned about awards and more focused on the work their magazine is featuring.
"I think literary magazines are labors of love," said Wayne Miller, co-editor. "It's exciting to publish a writer fresh out of the gates; to give them a chance."
Papers, folders, books and more papers are piled high, yet somehow neatly arranged in the offices of Miller and editor, Kevin Prufer.
Taking a brief moment for an interview, Prufer puts his current read on his desk, delighted to answer questions about Pleiades.
"We receive about 16,000 manuscripts and publish 70," Prufer said. "[Pleiades] existed back in the 1930s, but became a national magazine in the '90s when Rose Marie Kinder took over as editor."
"Pleiades was an in-house publication," said Kinder, editor emeritus.
The magazine then became an outside publication and published writers across the United States. Free copies sent to Missouri libraries and elsewhere helped to get the work noticed.
"[Prufer] moved it to another level," Kinder said. "Some of the best writers want to be published in it."
Success of the magazine rings loud, so could Pleiades become independent of the University?
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