Lumina

Annual print journal edited and produced by graduate students at Sarah Lawrence College luminajournal.com

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Check out what our executive team members are reading! What are you reading these days???

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Lumina submissions are now closed for all genres 🔖📝

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Here’s some of the books our team members have been reading lately 📖📖 Let us know what you’re reading in the comments!

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We are so excited to announce that our submission caps have been met!! Submissions are still open for Visual Arts. Submit soon!

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Only a week left until submissions close!

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These are some of the books that the Lumina team has been reading lately! Let us know in the comments about the book you’re reading 📖

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We write on Fridays! Lumina is inviting you to submit your writing📝🖋️

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We want everyone to meet our poetry editors and readers!

A Note From Our Editors:

We champion pieces that surprise, inspirit, and propel the reader to different realms of feeling, place, and consciousness. We welcome poems that deliver us into the human experience through inventive forms, translingual and transcultural text, fresh approaches to diction and indulgences of sound. But most of all, we value poetry that is authentic to you.

Additionally, in a world grappling with war, brutality, and identity-based injustice, we also strive to provide a platform for voices to reflect on these crises that impact them and those they care about. Therefore, we encourage writers to submit works that delve into the ways social unrest influences individual experience.

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We’re excited to introduce our nonfiction editors!

A Note From Our Editors:

We champion pieces that are personal, emotional and are courageous in the truths they tell. We want to be moved, surprised, and immersed in tenderness. We are also excited to see work that moves differently and strays away from the conventional in its form and structure.

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Here’s your weekly writing prompt 📝📝 The Lumina team is inviting you to submit your writing!!

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Meet our fiction editors and readers!

Our editors have a note for you: We take an inclusive approach to featuring a diverse array of writers from a wide range of backgrounds. While we welcome all narrative techniques, styles, and voices, we aim to publish work that highlights the day-to-day, recognizable trials and joys of living in our world. These pieces may be documentarian, strictly literal, or real-world oriented stories, or may be informed by the speculative, leveraging metaphor or analogue to reflect unique and shared experiences. The content might be true to the internal world (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper) or the external world (George Saunders, Civilwarland in Bad Decline), but should always hold a mirror to the everyday and the mundane.

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Say hello to our Managing Editors Catalina and Amanda🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️ Not only were they co-managing editors for Lumina’s 19th issue, they’re here for our 20th issue as well and we’re excited!!

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SUBMISSIONS FOR ALL GENRES ARE NOW OPEN!!!

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SUBMIT HERE!

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We are ready, are you?

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Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

Haruki Murakami (via writingdotcoffee)

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Not My Brother’s Sister

by Shaina Clingempeel In high school, people called me by my brother’s last name, Clingempeel. At first, I found humor in how my lengthy German last name spawned amusement. For a while, I enjoyed the nickname and considered it a distinguishing trait. In time, however, I realized what this represent

Check out our newest post by supporting staff memeber, Shaina Clingempeel on the LUMINA Blog.