Opportunities in Publishing

Cottonwood

Internships for MFA students are available with Cottonwood, KU's national literary review, which is published once yearly, in the fall. Cottonwood publishes new writers as well as established writers such as Virgil Suarez, Kim Chinquee, Carol Lee Lorenzo, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Joanne Lowery, and Criz Mazza. MFA students serve on the staff of Cottonwood and help edit the journal, and graduate credit is available for its editorial interns.

For more information on Cottonwood, please see the Cottonwood page.

Coal City Review

CCR, established in 1989, is an international journal of poetry, fiction, photography and reviews that is edited and published by members of the department and the community. CCR publishes the best work submitted, including the work of both "established" and "new" writers. We also publish individual collections of poetry, including Gary Lechliter's Under the Fool Moon, John Musgrave's Notes to the Man Who Shot Me: Vietnam Poems, and Matt Porubsky's voyeur poems.

Kiosk and Comma Space

Kiosk and Comma Splice are lively journals of the arts featuring the work of KU undergraduates. Kiosk is an award winning semi-annual publication primarily for KU undergraduates featuring the University of Kansas' premier student art and literature. Begun in 2006, Comma Splice also features the work of KU's talented undergraduate writers.