Baily's Beads Seeks Submission
The 2011 edition of Baily’s Beads, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s award-winning literary magazine, will feature a special section of poetry by local K-12 students. Editors Mike Reeder, Sarah Dorben and Steve Abplanalp are looking for writing that focuses on sensory images. “Rather than focusing on rhyming and big topics, concentrate on finding new ways to describe scenes and feelings,” Abplanalp suggested. “We’d like to see honest emotion and original imagery rather than abstractions,” Dorben said. Submissions from K-12 students should include written permission from a parent or guardian for the work to be published if accepted. Baily’s Beads also seeks submissions from Pitt-Bradford students and community members. Poetry, short stories, novel excerpts, memoir, travel writing, personal essays, plays and translations are accepted year round, but the magazine staff will only consider work for the 2011 issue until March 31. Work should have a cover sheet with the aut...