Literary Magazine ‘A Certain Slant’ is a Certain Success
By Annabelle Kennedy | Observer Contributor
Spring has sprung at MWCC and that means it is time for our own literary magazine A Certain Slant to come out by the end of April. A Certain Slant is a celebration of poetry, short fiction and paintings created by MWCC students themselves. Michelle Valois, a professor in the English department, edits and puts them together in a print magazine style.
For the past 20 years, Valois has been heading up the literary magazine. “I took it over from Professor Arthur Marley who started the magazine, sometime in the 1980s,” said Valois. Being a writer herself, she knows the excitement of seeing your name in print for the first time.
“I want to give the students the experience of publishing. To work with someone else and take pride in it,” Valois said. It is a great opportunity to experience sending your work to be selected and then edited. Anyone from MWCC is eligible to submit writing to A Certain Slant, not just English majors.Valois is even considering opening the submissions to local writers as well soon.
Over the years the magazine has changed in its presentation, but it is always full of talented writers from the MWCC community. “The students get to have physical evidence of what they have written,” said Valois. If you would like to see back issues of A Certain Slant, many of them can be found at the LaChance Library.
You can get your copy of A Certain Slant also at the LaChance Library on the Gardner campus. The Library will have a display of them. But you better be quick, they go fast.
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