As you may or may not know, the Kudzu Review is a publication run primarily by interning FSU students. This literary journal calls for and accepts submissions once every school semester, collecting a wide variety of creative work sent in by any aspiring writers and artists with the good fortune to have been informed of this exciting opportunity. Once the submissions are received, of course, the staff of the magazine read through them, choose the worthiest of the work, and publish them in the semester’s issue of The Kudzu Review. The submission window for this semester closes on October 13th.
This is an excellent opportunity for you or any other aspiring writer you know. Submitting pieces to The Kudzu Review is very easy. All one needs to do is go to their website (english.fsu.edu/kudzu/submit-work) click on the link, and upload the file containing the submission. Furthermore, submissions to the magazine are completely anonymous until published. This primarily serves the useful purpose of making it easier for writers to overcome whatever doubts they have about their own work and submit it without concern for how it reflects upon their own talents. After all, the most interesting things to read might well be the very same ones that make their authors most apprehensive. The piece they themselves have no confidence in may well turn out to be the best things they have ever written. So all writers are encouraged to submit anything and everything they wish without any hesitation.
Another reason to try to get your work published is that it’s entirely possible that you may have a talent for writing that is going under-appreciated. If you believe your writing is good enough to be published, why not give the literate public of FSU a chance to agree with you? On the other hand, if you don’t think you are of any great talent at writing, perhaps you deserve a second opinion; give yourself a chance to exceed your own expectations. Success here could be the groundwork for future success in the field, or simply one more cool thing you did at college.
But perhaps the best reason of all to submit some of your work to the Kudzu review is simply; why not? Of the hundreds of documents probably buried somewhere in your computer, or in your flash drive, I would bet that at least one of them would be considered truly creative. A few minutes of your time could be all it takes to release your talent and insight into the world. That’s why I challenge and encourage you to find that piece and publish it today. After you’ve done so, you would do the literate community of FSU a great service if you persuaded your friends to do so as well.There are over 41,000 students at FSU, and every one of them has something worth publishing.
