OUR SPRING 2010 SUBMISSIONS HAS BEGUN! SOUND THE TRUMPETS!

Submit your poetry, prose, photos, and art to us by 5 PM ON FEBRUARY 17!

For detailed information on how to submit, click the “Submissions Guidelines” tab above or the poster below!

The most basic explanation of AmLit is this—American Literary, commonly known as AmLit, is the American University literary magazine. AmLit is a student-run organization and we publish our magazine twice a year at the end of the Fall and Spring semesters. AmLit is comprised of poetry, short stories, photos and art submitted by the campus community.

But AmLit is so much more than that. While AmLit is a prestigious and professional publication, it also a tight-knit, welcoming community which admittedly has been described more than once as “quirky”. The staff is extremely close and most meetings take twice as long as usual due to everyone laughing so hard. AmLit is made up of passionate individuals—our staff members truly care about the purpose of the magazine, about literature, poetry, photography, graphic design, art, and anything creative. They eat, live and breathe it. Due to the zeal of the staff, seeing the magazine go from an informal conversation around the table in our little office to a physical being that we can hold our hands, display in our apartments and dorm rooms, give to families and see total strangers reading on the quad is exhilarating. AmLit is essential to American University—after all, what is college without that crazy literary magazine kid walking around in thick-rimmed black glasses, scribbling thoughts in his moleskin notebook, his Macbook sticking out of his bag? (Hey, we are well aware of the stereotypes surrounding literary types and we aren’t afraid to embrace it!) American University needs AmLit so that every passionate, crazy, weird, quirky kid that scrawls his or her thoughts in a notebook, or hikes around with a camera, or spends nights in Katzen splattered in paint or gazing at a graphic design project in the Mac Lab, has somewhere to go.

So if this sounds anything like you do or something that appeals to the slightly eccentric side of yourself, join our staff or submit to our magazine. We want you! You’ll be perfect!