Telling Your Tales
Getting your work out there.
Looking to have your work published? We've compiled a list of the local and SUNY Oswego publications and contests available to our students as well as links to further lists of where you can have your work shine!
Should you be looking for publications in terms of specific genres, just click the links below to be taken to more specified lists!
The Great Lake Review (GLR) is SUNY Oswego's student-run and edited literary magazine. This magazine publishes each Fall and Spring semester, and features student-created prose, poetry, essays, and artwork. Visit their website for more information.
SUNY Oswego Creative Writing Awards Contest
Each Spring semester, current SUNY Oswego undergraduate students are encouraged to submit to the Creative Writing Awards Contest. These awards incorporate seven different contests in many different genres.
New Voices
This is a yearly competition for playwrights at SUNY Oswego for the best ten-minute play. Winners are selected by a panel of judges, and then the winning plays are paired with student directors from our Theatre Program, who plan several nights of staged readings.
SUNY Wide Film Festival
SWFF provides a platform to highlight the work that best exemplifies the dedication and skill found across the SUNY system. Visit their website for more information.
Oswego's Bi-Annual Film Festivals
SUNY Oswego's Film Club hosts one film festival each semester. Visit their facebook page for more information.
Flash Fiction Contests
Flash Fiction Contests are periodically hosted by SUNY Oswego students and alumni. Students are encouraged to participate.
Her Campus is an online community for college women, written entirely by college journalists. With over 230 campus chapters and over 4,000 current contributors, this site is a great place to start publishing as a budding-journalist.
The Oswegonian is SUNY Oswego's independent, student-run newspaper which has been offering the students of SUNY Oswego and the surrounding community reliable news since 1935. While The Oswegonian is an obvious choice for those on the journalism track, they also accept creative writing submissions as long as they are 200 words or less. This word limit tends to lend itself best to poetry, although flash fiction could also work well!
OUTspoken is a blog published by the SUNY Oswego Pride Alliance: the student-run LGBTQIA+ organization on campus. This publication accepts both journalistic and creative writing submissions of any length as long as they relate to the LGBTQIA+ community, queer identity, gender identity, and/or sexual orientation in some way.
The Crow is an online literary magazine that publishes diverse speculative fiction, poetry, and articles that discuss representation and diversity in fantasy and science fiction. Founded and managed by SUNY Oswego alum Loni Crittenden, it releases four issues per year. Visit their website for more information.