{"id":3748,"date":"2018-06-07T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=3748"},"modified":"2018-06-07T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T20:01:00","slug":"hairstreak-butterfly-ccs-new-online-literary-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2018\/06\/07\/hairstreak-butterfly-ccs-new-online-literary-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hairstreak Butterfly, CC\u2019s New Online Literary Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hairstreak Butterfly Review,<\/em>named after the official Colorado state insect,\u00a0embraces CC\u2019s aspiration to invite innovation and possibility into our understanding of the world. Launched by the Department of English, the online literary journal\u2019s editors describe their mission as offering \u201ca space for writing that stirs the senses and invokes things wild, sacred, daring, and visionary. We are as excited about feeling out the limits of genre, language, perspective, and narratives as we are about the careful rendering of that which makes humans human and keeps time waxing and waning.\u201d Take a look at Issue 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Assistant Professor of English Natanya Pulley is the journal\u2019s managing editor. She says that when imagining a literary journal for CC, she asked herself two things:\u00a0Does the world need yet another literary journal?\u00a0and\u00a0What can it offer our students that they aren\u2019t already experiencing in student-run publications, through our Visiting Writer Series\u2019 events and class talks, or through discussion (in-class and one-on-one) about contemporary literary publishing?<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been editing literary journals for the last 10 or so years and find it is an essential part of being a contemporary writer. One can read the trends before they hit the bookstores and find emerging and marginalized voices that may not find a publisher for some time.\u201d Pulley also says that reading submissions for the journal means encountering not only a wide spectrum of styles, perspectives, and content, but also reading underdeveloped work or writing that feels so close \u2014 but not enough \u2014 to complete.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means confronting writing that is clumsy, hollow, amateurish, offensive, unimaginative, or worse: average,\u201d she says. \u201cThis exposure ultimately helps a writer identify their own weaknesses and limitations, and even face their fear of failing while also finding their strengths and readership.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are a multitude of writing programs with nationwide literary journals that build the student editorial experience with exactly these areas in mind, says Pulley.\u00a0\u201cMy goal has always been to provide such an opportunity for our students, but I returned often to that first question as I began planning a \u2018Literary Publishing Practicum\u2019 adjunct and in my discussions with students and visitors about literary journal publishing,\u201d Pulley says of getting this project started. \u201cOur students are innovative, hardworking, and inquisitive people. Many love writing and reading; they read to escape, be challenged, learn, and see themselves reflected in the words of others. But they also want to build spaces for change and growth \u2014 they want to be a part of something important that is inclusive and supportive of marginalized people.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the journal increases the number of publications in the literary world as well as at CC, Pulley says her vision for it has been not only to deepen students\u2019 connection with the literary industry and their own role as writers within that industry, but also to deepen work in diversity and inclusion by asking what it takes behind the scenes for marginalized voices to be seen and heard.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do we build such an infrastructure? \u00a0What are we looking for when we read submissions? What do we see or look for when reading published work and what does this say about how we conceive of the world?\u201d Pulley says of the questions she asks throughout the process of putting the journal together. \u201cWhat does our understanding of \u2018good writing\u2019 rely on and how did it come to be? How can we be proactive about inviting and honoring work by writers of color, LGBTQ writers, and writers with disabilities? And most importantly, how do we interrogate our own choices in building this space and structure? What questions of about our own positions and views must we embrace \u2014 not once, but every moment we read submissions and edit, communicate with, publish, and promote our contributors?\u201d<\/p>\n

The literary journal, and the Lit Pub Practicum Pulley teaches, offer students an opportunity to tackle these questions and toward a specific purpose. \u201cWe work to put something out there that we hope speaks to and teaches others as it has us,\u201d she says. \u201cThis is why the world needs literary journals \u2014 thousands of different kinds: we must always ask ourselves which narratives, voices, perspectives, and images do we find essential to understanding our world today? And at CC we must ask how do we best amplify them?\u201d\u00a0Spend some time with Hairstreak Butterfly Review<\/a><\/em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hairstreak Butterfly Review,named after the official Colorado state insect,\u00a0embraces CC\u2019s aspiration to invite innovation and possibility into our understanding of the world. Launched by the Department of English, the online literary journal\u2019s editors describe their mission as offering \u201ca space for writing that stirs the senses and invokes things wild, sacred, daring, and visionary. We … <\/p>\n

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