Bits of Flint, Future and Past

Bits of Flint, Future and Past

A Call for Submissions for Bits of Flint, Future and Past, April 2025

Spring brings renewal; we look forward to life’s return from winter’s cold grip. T. S. Eliot, of course, in an exception to this rule and declared “April is the cruelest month.” Any man who hates spring hates his dog, too. How is spring cruel? Baseball is back; daffodils bloom, cardinals sing in warm rain showers; the earth lifts its frozen back to take in the sun.  Life is renewed and hardly cruel.

Each April, Midland University invites you to share bits of your life in pictures, remembrances, poems, essays, short fictions, or acknowledgments to old friends.

At Midland University, we look forward to hearing about the new directions your lives have taken since your graduation from Midland. Life moves so quickly; we ask you to take an hour to sound your barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

This year’s alumni editors are Matthew Weisberg and Alex Law. They will be shaping the online edition of Bits of Flint, Future and Past.

We invite you to submit your work for the 2025 edition. Before submitting, please refer to the guidelines below. 

To submit your work, complete the submission form. If you have any questions, contact us at BitsofFlint@midlandu.edu.

Yours,
Henry Krusiewicz
Professor of English

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Submission Guidelines
 

We seek submissions from alumni of poetry, short fiction (2,000 words or less), excerpts from longer works of fiction (2,000 words or less), scenes from plays, photos of artwork, or works of creative nonfiction (2,000 words or less). Our aim is to provide a forum for past voices to speak in the present.

We ask that your voice not be strident, overtly political, or a manifesto supporting racist, sexist, or violent aims. We reserve the exclusive right to reject submissions that we find unsuitable and not in support of Midland University’s core values. We seek, instead, aesthetically interesting and fresh perspectives from a body of valued alumni that have seen much of the world and have something to add to its story. Our editors, (past student editors of Bits of Flint and now professionals in the world) will look for works that offer a unique perspective, that show and do not tell, that create images, rhythms, characters, plots, and story resolutions that offer a new understanding of the human experience. Bits of Flint, Future and Past seeks new and original works not previously published in other journals or venues.

For all accepted work, Midland University has First North American Rights, and then all rights revert back to the author.