IWU’s “Caesura” magazine is now accepting submissions for their 2025 issue. The theme for this year’s magazine is Echoes.
“Caesura” magazine themes are meant to carry a sense of ambiguity with them. They are meant to spike creative ideas, not limit them.
Matthew Lacy, editor-in-chief of the “Caesura,” said, “I’m thinking of echoes as this effect that happens when you put something out into the world, which is what we’re doing with poetry and with writing and with art in general.”
The “Caesura” magazine has a board of individuals who review all submissions and determine which ones should be featured in the magazine.
Ella McDivitt, the Associate Director of the “Caesura,” said, “We usually do it all in one sitting, so we’ll have a meeting that lasts however long we need it to last, usually a couple of hours, where we go through all the submissions, and our editor-in-chief will compile all of them.”
On top of the editorial staff, the board consists of people from the IWU and Marion community. Pulling writers and literary enthusiasts from the broader community ensures a firmer judgement on what works should be included in the issue.
“That way it’s not just the few of us that are on the editor’s staff making all these decisions, and we can have some larger feedback,” Lacy said.
The magazine is open to any form of creative writing or visual art that the IWU community has to offer. The submission portal will close on February 15.
