The mission of our literary magazine is to publish new voices from the Ivy Tech community to provide a public forum for the stories, poems, plays, memoirs, and art created by our students, faculty, and staff. The magazine is a product of the Ivy Tech Community College-Bloomington English Department.
Our literary magazine was the brain-child of an exceptional student named Ashley Bayer, who wanted to continue writing beyond the classroom. Ashley was supported by Dr. Emily Bobo, a professor of English and now also Chair of Fine Arts and Humanities, whose initiative and intuition grew the magazine to the success it is now.
We publish original, creative work of a high and distinctive quality by past and present Ivy Tech Community College students, staff, and faculty only. Preference will be given to submissions that are concrete and image-based — we want works that evoke the five senses while avoiding sentimentality.
root and branch literary magazine 