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Perceptions lines up pieces for May publication
The Advocate
The editors of “Perceptions,” MHCC’s literary publication, have evaluated 100 submissions in all genres as the annual magazine begins to come together.
With art and photography submissions complete and selections made, Managing Editor Megan Jones said the staff is about done reading the poetry and fiction/non-fiction submissions.
“We’re getting pretty close at looking at all that and basically have mostly music and film to finish up for the year,” said Jones.
She said the section editors’ job last week was to finish listening to all the music submissions. They have accepted about seven songs and have another 12 to listen to. Both Jones and Music Editor George Lewis said the musical genres vary from instrumental music to ’90 pop music and experimental rock.
“It’s upbeat music this time,” said Jones. “It should be a good CD this year.”
Lewis, a psychology major, said, “My goal is to put out a good CD with the magazine.” “What I wanted to do was get quality music and keep the quality consistent.”
In addition to working on music, the editors also have two film submissions they’ve accepted and a couple more they have to go through. However, Jones said there doesn’t seem to be as many film submissions as the previous years.
“We definitely need more films from students,” said Jones. “We’ve had some in past years from the Integrated Media program but I don’t think anybody turned anything in this year.”
The editors have finished looking through all the art and photography submissions. Of the 100 submissions -- some being multiple entries with as many as six pieces per artist -- they kept about 50 submissions.
“There was a lot of stuff to go through,” said Jones.
Asked about the photography that was submitted, Jones said, “We have a lot of really cool black and white photography this year, which I’m really excited about,” said Jones.
As far as the poetry submissions, Jones said they’re “pretty good” this year. The fiction submissions she says are “all good, solid pieces.”
Jone said the non-fiction category is really doing well, with one in mind that’s “mind-blowing.”
Jones and the other editors continue working with the graphic designers on the magazine and the CD and DVD design. Jones said the designers have an idea of packaging everything in an old box, “which would be cool, because then we wouldn’t have three separate pieces: the magazine, the CD and the DVD.”
As for the cover of the magazine, Jones said it has been a trade off with ideas between the designers and the editors.
“They’re doing really good work here so far,” said Jones. “It’s a good group that mostly gets along.”
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