Eagles Quill Primer:
How a Literary Magazine is Published


We collect short fiction, poems, drama, essays, narratives, drawings, and artwork from all of the students in the building who are kind enough to send their pieces our way. We take the ones we want, but read them all, and narrow down the clutter, while we eat our popcorn.

We collect more short fiction, poems, drama, essays, narratives, drawings, and artwork from all of the students in the building who are kind, but just a little slow. We read those, compare them to the ones we’ve borrowed...er, collected...earlier. We take more of the work we want. Sometimes the authors are never heard from again...then we eat a little more popcorn.

It’s probably last minute at this point, so we go and rent out space in the computer labs so we can live there short-term. We read stuff again. We separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, the popped corn from the kernels. We complement works of literature with works of art that we think go especially well together, and people disagree about this, then somebody overrules them.

Forgot to mention something along the lines here...EDITING! Again and again and again and again...We still get typos...we still eat popcorn, we send it off to the printer by Spring Break because we are tired and, of course, it looks prize-winningly good. We wait, invoke the gods, and eat popcorn till... Voila! We hope you like it. (Don’t be shy; we know you do like it; after all, it's the Eagles Quill!)