Thursday, April 24, at 7 p.m., two Shippensburg University journals, The Reflector and Write the Ship, were released. The Reflector is an annual undergraduate arts journal and Write the Ship is a journal of academic writing, both sponsored by the English Department.
At the launch party in the Spiritual Center, Cory Stevens, editor-in-chief of The Reflector, spoke to the audience with both a thank you and a farewell as he is graduating this spring and will no longer be working with the journal.
Stevens said, “The Reflector is what made me definitively decide that I wanted to go to Shippensburg… Each year, the submissions continue to astound and inspire me.”
“The great and formidable Neil Connelly,” as Stevens calls him, is The Reflector’s faculty supervisor. Connelly, an English professor, also spoke at the event and gave this advice to all writers, “Keep writing until you run out of ink. Then go buy new pens.”
The Reflector and Write the Ship both accept student submissions year-round. The Reflector, which was created in 1957, publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and artwork. Write the Ship publishes fiction, non-fiction, essays, feature writing, reports and scholarly research from all subjects.
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