Spires Intercollegiate Arts and Literary Magazine

TODAY IS THE DAY!!! This is your final chance to submit to Spires for our Spring 2023 magazine. What are you waiting for?!?!? Click the link in our bio now to submit your art and literature.

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The details:
- We accept prose, poetry, artwork, flash fiction, short fiction, etc.
- Submitting is free and easy!
- Open to all undergraduate students at any university in the country!
- Submit your work through the form in our bio and give yourself the chance to be published

ONLY ONE DAY LEFT TO SUBMIT TO SPIRES!!!l Now is the time to send in your art and literature for the Spires Spring 2023 issue! Use the link in our bio to send in your work.

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The details:
- We accept prose, poetry, artwork, flash fiction, short fiction, etc.
- Submitting is free and easy!
- Open to all undergraduate students at any university in the country!
- Submit your work through the form in our bio and give yourself the chance to be published

TWO DAYS left to submit to Spires!!!Click on the link in our bio to send us your art and literature for the Spring 2023 Spires Magazine before you miss your chance!! 
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The details:
- We accept prose, poetry, artwork, flash fiction, short fiction, etc.
- Submitting is free and easy!
- Open to all undergraduate students at any university in the country!
- Submit your work through the form in our bio and give yourself the chance to be published

ONLY 3 DAYS left to submit to Spires! Dont miss your chance to send in your art and literature for the Spires Spring 2023 issue! Check out the link in our bio to send in your work!!!

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The details:
- We accept prose, poetry, artwork, flash fiction, short fiction, etc.
- Submitting is free and easy!
- Open to all undergraduate students at any university in the country!
- Submit your work through the form in our bio and give yourself the chance to be published

Only 4 days left to submit to Spires! Don't miss the opportunity to send in your art and literature for the Spires Spring 2023 issue! Use the link in our bio to send in your work.

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The details:
- We accept prose, poetry, artwork, flash fiction, short fiction, etc.
- Submitting is free and easy!
- Open to all undergraduate students at any university in the country!
- Submit your work through the form in our bio and give yourself the chance to be published

Only 5 days left to submit to Spires! Now is your chance to send in your art and literature for the Spires Spring 2023 issue! Use the link in our bio to send in your work.

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The details:
- We accept prose, poetry, artwork, flash fiction, short fiction, etc.
- Submitting is free and easy!
- Open to all undergraduate students at any university in the country!
- Submit your work through the form in our bio and give yourself the chance to be published!

Check out another spotlight of the Spring semester, intended to inspire artists and writers! This artwork is “Ornithology” (Hannah Megery, WashU ’22), a beautiful oil on canvas painting from our Spring 2022 issue. Interested in having your art or literature in our next magazine? There’s still time to submit with the link in our bio!
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Submission Deadline: March 3rd, 11:59 PM. We can’t wait to see your submissions!

Check out another spotlight of the Spring semester, intended to inspire artists and writers! This poem is “We will keep you alive in us.” (Missouri University of Science and Technology, WashU ’25), a thoughtful and moving poem from our Fall 2022 issue. Interested in having your art or literature in our next magazine? There’s still time to submit with the link in our bio!
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Submission Deadline: March 3rd, 11:59 PM. We can’t wait to see your submissions!

Check out our first spotlight of the Spring semester, intended to inspire artists and writers! This artwork is “Desire For Freedom” (Eunice Kang, Yale ’24), a gorgeous oil on canvas painting from our Spring 2022 issue. This piece greeted our readers as the front inside cover. Interested in having your art or literature in our next magazine? There’s still time to submit with the link in our bio!
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Submission Deadline: March 3rd, 11:59 PM. We can’t wait to see your submissions!

💥Check out Spires' new panel at the Underpass!! Thank you to all our members who helped out today! Reminder that we are accepting art and lit submissions until March 3rd- Submissions can be sent through this form: https://tinyurl.com/SpiresSP2023

Deadline to submit your art and writing for this semester’s Spires magazine is March 3rd! This semester we are using a Google Form to take submissions. You can send in your art or lit at this link: https://tinyurl.com/SpiresSP2023

Our first GBM is Thursday, January 26th from 5:00-6:00 PM in the Harvey Media Center (located on level three of the DUC). If you are interested in joining our editorial staff and learning more about Spires, please come! If you are not on our mailing list, you can dm us or e-mail us at [email protected] to get added to it!

Join Spires at this semester’s activity fair tomorrow! Stop by if you have questions about our submission process, want to join our editorial staff, or just want to learn more about the magazine! You can also pick up copies of last semester's magazine! We hope to see you there!

We can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the new issue…
And be sure to grab a physical copy in the Spring!


Have a restful Winter Break while reading this Fall 2022 Issue of Spires.

Spires Fall 2022. Read it at the Link in our Bio.

Today is the day you’ve all been waiting for! SPIRES FALL 2022 (The Online Version) has been released on Issuu! Click on the link in our bio to get reading….

We apologize for the delay on the physical copies. They will be distributed around campus at the start of the Spring Semester, so stay excited for that!

We at Spires hope everyone had a restful Thanksgiving break! With many assignments ahead, we know everyone needs time to focus on things besides school. How about reading the new issue of Spires!
Here is another Sneak Peak that will be featured, in full, in our upcoming Fall 2022 Issue. The new issue will be with us shortly! We can’t wait to share it with all of you.

Happy Monday…Here is another sneak peak! This is just a small snippet from one of our lit piecesfeatured in our Fall 2022 issue. We love our mix of poetry, short fiction, and flash fiction in this upcoming issue.
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We know you want to see the rest of this one….soon enough, we will have our Fall 2022 issue in our possession! We can’t wait for you all to see it.

Here is our first sneak peak of the Fall 2022 Issue of Spires! This is just a snapshot of one of our pieces.
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We hope you are excited to see the whole piece along with the rest of the magazine! It has been sent to the publisher and we will distribute copies around campus as soon as we have them.

We accepted 12 Art Submissions and 13 Lit pieces! With the layout complete, we are sending the issue to the publisher and, soon enough, we will have copies to distribute around campus!
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Get ready for some SNEAK PEAK of our Fall 2022 pieces….!!

Thank you to everyone who submitted their work to Spires for the Fall 2022 issue! The quality and quantity of submissions was outstanding and it made the decision process that much more difficult. With 140 total literary submissions and 61 total art, we had a lot of great deliberations over pieces and fell in love with so many them!
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We cannot wait for you all to see the Fall 2022 issue of Spires.

You have until 11:59PM tonight to submit to Spires…do not wait any longer!!
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-We accept prose, poetry, artwork, flash fiction, short fiction…
-Submitting is free and easy.
-Open to all undergraduate students at any university in the country!
-Email your work to the email in our bio and give yourself the chance to be published.

1 DAY LEFT TO SUBMIT!!!!
Submit to Spires Intercollegiate Arts & Literary Magazine today or miss out on the chance to be published. Submitting is just an email away!

We can’t wait to see your work.
Email your artwork or writing to [email protected] before it’s too late.

ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT to Spires Fall 2022 Issue!
What are you waiting for???

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We accept prose, poetry, artwork, flash fiction, short fiction…
Submitting is free and easy. Open to all undergraduate students at any university in the country!
Email your work to the email in our bio and give yourself the chance to be published.

3 DAYS AND COUNTING!!!! This is not a drill. Submit to Spires Intercollegiate Arts & Literary Magazine today or miss out on the chance to be published for all the world to see!

We can’t wait to see your prose
poems or
short fiction or
longer fiction or
collages or
sculptures or
paintings or
drawings or
or flash fiction etc.
TODAY!

Email your work to [email protected] before it’s too late.

only 4 DAYS left to submit to Spires Fall 2022 Issue!
Be sure to submit your work before the deadline is up. This one is for real!

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The details:
-We accept prose, poetry, artwork, flash fiction, short fiction…
-Submitting is free and easy.
-Open to all undergraduate students at any university in the country!
-Email your work to the email in our bio and give yourself the chance to be published.

AND THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS….
There are 5 days left to Submit to Spires Fall 2022 Issue.
You do not want to miss out.

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We accept prose, poetry, artwork, flash fiction, short fiction…
Submitting is free and easy. Open to all undergraduate students at any university in the country!
Email your work to the email in our bio and give yourself the chance to be published.

BREAKING NEWS! THE SPIRES SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 21ST at MIDNIGHT!!!
- Don’t wait and submit your creative work to [email protected] TODAY!!!
- We accept poetry, photography, prose, drawings, fiction, paintings, creative nonfiction, sculptures, and MORE!
- WE ARE ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN RECEIVING ART SUBMISSIONS!!!
- It is completely free to submit and an amazing opportunity to be featured in an undergraduate publication!
- Feel free to reach out via our DMs if you have any questions about submitting, and we hope to see your creative work in the Fall 2022 issue of Spires :)

Welcome back! After a restful fall break, we dug through the archives, heading all back to our Fall 2015 issue to present “Becoming a Mutation” by Elizabeth Levinson (WashU ’18).
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We love poetry here at Spires and we want to see yours! With the deadline approaching, do not wait to write, perfect, and submit your work.

With Fall Break approaching, we have another incredible spotlight to share with you all. “Rising Sun,” by Lucille Long (Kennesaw State University ’21), was published in our Fall 2020 issue. The piece was made with Acrylic paint and pen. To all you artists out there, we cannot wait to see your work! Do not hesitate to submit.
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Deadline to Submit to Spires Fall 2022: October 14th, 11:59PM. Submission to the email in our bio.

For our next spotlight this week, we have ‘Threadbare.’ Submitted anonymously by a student who graduated in 2019, this poem captured our staff the first time we read it.

If you have any poetry you’ve been working on, do not hesitate to submit! You can submit multiple pieces…for free.
Give yourself the chance to be published!

Deadline to Submit to Spires Fall 2022: October 14th, 11:59PM.

Our first spotlight of the Fall, intended to inspire all writers and artists out there, is ‘Sanctuary’ (Ruoyi Gan, WashU ’20) from our Spring 2017 issue ( ) Done with pen, ink, and watercolor, this piece popped off the magazine pages. If you think your work could pop off the page, don’t hesitate to submit!
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Deadline to Submit to Spires Fall 2022: October 14th, 11:59PM. Submit to the email in our bio.
We can’t wait to see your work!

And our last exec spotlight for Fall 2022 Spires!
Lara Briggs
Position: associate editor
Year: junior/class of 2024
Majors: Environmental Analysis and Political Science
Why Spires: I love working with the Spires editorial staff to create the magazine, and we get to critique some pretty amazing works!
Hobbies: crochet, reading, playing electric bass!

Now we begin with some spotlights to inspire all of our artists and writers out there!
Submission Deadline: October 14th!

Mahtab Chaudhry
Literary Editor
year: senior
major: english literature and secondary education, minor in wgss
hobbies: cooking, baking, vintage dresses, climbing trees

Hi everyone! I’m Olivia and I’m the treasurer for Spires. I’m a junior majoring in English and minoring in Marketing and French. I love music, working out, and discovering new restaurants. Spires has provided me with a fun outlet to review and discuss writing with other passionate students and I’m so happy to be a part of it. So excited for the semester ahead and to see our new submissions!

Last set of spotlights! We love our big exec team!
Hanah Shields (she/they)
Position: Co-Editor in Chief
Year: Senior
Majors: English with Creative Writing Concentration and Ancient Studies
Why Spires? I love getting to see the amazing work people are producing all over the country, as well as having a close community of students to discuss and meet with every week.
Hobbies: Cooking, podcasts, volunteering

Alexis Bentz
Year: Junior
Major: English with creative writing concentration
Why Spires: I love discussing literature and getting to know my peers through their creative work!
Hobbies: Reading, writing short stories

Campbell Sharpe (she/her)
Area of study: English/creative writing major. Minor in gender studies and business of the arts
Year: junior
Title: art director
Hobbies: I’m really interested in dress history and thrifting!

To continue with our exec spotlights….
Name: Jordan Spector (he/him)
Position: Layout Editor
Major: Communication Design and English Literature
Fun Fact: When I was younger, I used to perform trapeze as part of a circus
Why Spires: It’s a fun group of people, and I love the mission of sharing student art and writing!

I am Kimberly! I am the Publicity Director for Spires. I am a Junior with a double major in English and Marketing. I love to play soccer and drink coffee. I work with Spires because I love curating the magazine and getting people excited about such a great publication. Get ready for some fun posts!

Next up…
Hi everyone! My name is Anna and I am one of the co-editor-in-chiefs for Spires this semester! I am a senior this year (crazy!) double majoring in Psychology and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies as well as minoring in Writing. I have been a part of Spires ever since my freshman year at WashU and I have loved everything about working for the magazine. It’s so special to be able to read and view work from talented students all over the country, and the final publication always ends up being something our Editorial Staff is really proud of putting together. My hobbies include attending concerts, writing short stories, and painting. I can’t wait to work with new staff members this semester and see what our Fall 2022 submissions will have to offer!