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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa. —SIMBAA, Lincoln University’s magazine of the arts, is now accepting submissions for its spring 2019 edition. Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to submit for consideration their best poetry, short stories, essays, visual art, and photography.
All submissions may be emailed to lulitmag@yahoo.com. The deadline is Monday, March 4.
SIMBAA’s editorial staff (from left): Josh Clements, Joslyn Jackson, Arnelle Grant, Jasmine Gayle, Kirk Henderson. Not featured: Eric Hilliard, Bahijah Hassan
In addition, SIMBAA, along with the Department of Languages & Literature, is again sponsoring the Poet Laureate Contest and Guy A. Sims Short Fiction Competition.
The top three poems submitted to the Poet Laureate Contest will be published in SIMBAA, and the first-place poet will be declared Poet Laureate of Lincoln University, 2019. The prizes are first place, $150; second place, $100; third place, $75.
Stories submitted to the Short Fiction Competition should be original, unpublished, double-spaced, and in the range of 1,500-2,500 words. Each story must be accompanied by a separate cover sheet with the author’s name, student number, mailing address, phone number, email, title of piece, and word count. The prizes are first place, $300; second place, $200; third place, $100.
Winners and honorable mentions will also be published in SIMBAA.
The deadline for both contests is Monday, March 4. Email submissions to lulitmag@yahoo.com. Be sure to indicate in the subject line which contest the submission is for.
Follow SIMBAA on Twitter and Instagram. To learn more, contact David Amadio, assistant professor in the languages and literature department, at damadio@lincoln.edu or 484-365-7571.