“Illuminations” submissions deadline fast approaching

The last day for current students, staff and faculty to submit their work for publication in “Illuminations,” Southeast Community College’s fine arts magazine is Friday, May 25.
Students who enter their work for submission also have a chance to win cash prizes. The first place prize for top art, top prose and top poetry categories is $50. Second place is $25.
Art would include any sort of drawing, photography or visual reproduction. Prose includes fictions, short stories and essays; poetry speaks for itself.
The “Illuminations” group has recently made the decision to include some multimedia in the next volume, such as music, videos or anything that can be done in a live format.
“Illuminations” editor Kimberly Fangman explained that this is the very first issue where they are inviting those kind of submissions. The idea came after a music instructor at the college requested that they spotlight some students doing something musical in a video.
“We are going to direct people in the book to the “Illuminations” section of the YouTube page we have here at SCC,” said Fangman.
The planning staff talked about putting a DVD in with the book, but that is currently cost prohibitive.
For anyone interested in submitting his or her work, first find a submission card. These are usually sitting by the magazine, or can be found online at the Hub. Answer the questions in an e-mail and send it to Kimberly Fangman at [email protected] along with your work. If e-mail is not an option, place the submission on a CD and leave it in Fangman’s mailbox in room U-4 on the Lincoln campus.
The magazine is designed to give students a way to share their artistic side. It’s not always true that community colleges have a reputation for excelling in the arts, and that’s not something SCC wants to propagate.
“We want people to know that there’s a lot of good stuff going on here,” said Fangman.
Volume 13 of “Illuminations” is currently available for free at any of the campus LRCs, the Energy Square main office, the continuing education center main office or scattered around the Lincoln campus.