Beloit College Magazine: Summer 2026
The newest issue of the Beloit College Magazine is live and in mailboxes! For this issue I unearthed a campus treasure, learned all about salmon fishing in Alaska, and had the opportunity to polish alumni voices before they were heard for the last time. Lateral Lines Luke Schwantes ’99 has always gravitated toward water. After graduating, he planned on commercial fishing in Alaska as a way to pay off his student loans and fund traveling the world. His uncles and brother had a
My Writing Year: Place Your Bets
I’m counting. I am six months into 2026 and over halfway through My Writing Year. “It’s a numbers game,” my brother once said. About what? I can’t remember, but I’ve always used the phrase to describe publishing. We all know the game. Or at least, I’m fairly familiar with how to play in the literary magazine world. I scroll through the calls for submissions, choose my prompt, tweak the closest piece I have, and hit send. The poem I write on a napkin is picked up quickly. The
Celebrating CRAFT Conversations
Reading for CRAFT has been an invitation into individual author stories sent from around the world and marked by their individual author journeys retold through career choices, awards, genre explorations, unique publications, and always the hope I share with those authors, a new, next opportunity. My application to read for CRAFT was one such new, next opportunity, and one defined by increased confidence in my editor voice. To read multiple times, sifting through phrases and
