Submit your work to be featured in this spring's print edition and please refer to our submission guidelines for more information!
Spring Semester Submissions
Towards the end of the semester, we will be releasing this year's PRINT edition! Submit your work to be featured and please refer to our submission guidelines for more information. Specific release date to be announced.
Writing Pompts
Got writer's block? Struggling to come up with ideas? The Laurel's own Fiction Editor Alicia Maxwell came up with this list of writing prompts to get you started! Letter/poem to your future self. You’re having the best day of your life. What does it look like? What are you? You woke up one morning in…
The Laurel, November 2023
The Laurel November 2023 issue.
November Submissions
Our November issue will be released on the 27th! Submit your work to be featured and please refer to our submission guidelines for more information.
The Laurel, October 2023
The Laurel October 2023 issue.
October Submissions
Our October issue will be released on the 30th! Submit your work to be featured and please refer to our submission guidelines for more information.
About the Laurel
The Laurel is St. Bonaventure University's literary magazine and the oldest student-run college literary magazine in the United States. Since 1889, The Laurel has been published every year. It was first published quarterly, then monthly, and then biannually with issues in the fall and spring semesters. For the past couple of years since the pandemic,…
Submit Your Work
We accept a wide range of work, such as creative writing, visual art, and photography. St. Bonaventure University students, alumni, faculty, and staff are welcome to send their pieces to us. You are welcome to submit more than one piece, but we may only select one per author for each issue. Typically, we can publish…
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