Broken Ink

Ladies and Gentlemen,
You are cordially invited to attend the release ball for the campus’s finest publication for the fine arts, Broken Ink, on April 17 at 7:30pm. Dress is casually fabulous. If you are unable to attend, please understand that you will be missing the gathering of the season. Yes, we do want you to be sorry. But, even more, we would like you to be in attendance.

All are welcome to this exclusive event.

Best regards,

Broken Ink Staff

Thanks to all our wonderful staff members, volunteers, and submitters, we’ve officially completed the review process, and our editors are heavy on the grindstone putting our mag together! For the rest of you scalawags, be sure to put our Release Party on your calendar, coming up April 17, 2012, @ 7pm!

It’s USC Aiken’s 50th Anniversary, and we want YOU to help us celebrate! While we encourage any and all creative writing and art submissions, we’re particularly interested in pieces that somehow support this theme. Classic cars? Hula hoops? Grease? We want it ALL! In the meantime, remember the FINAL DEADLINE!

!>-Final Deadline: Feb 3-<!

We will soon be accepting submission for the next issue of Broken Ink! Whether you’re a writer, photographer, painter, sketcher, or any other kind of artsy fart, we are READY to publish your work! Check out “How to Submit” to find out how to send it our way! And don’t forget that we offer an Improvement Workshop for all work submitted by the early deadline!

Early Submission Deadline: November 18

WHAT: Broken Ink Release Party

WHEN:  7PM,  Tuesday,  April 19

WHERE:  SAC Mezz (upstairs above the caff)

Come one, come all- to the official release of the 2011 issue of Broken Ink, USCA’s literary arts magazine! We’ve got an inspiring lineup of poets that will read as the crowd enjoys free food and their free copy of the newest edition of the magazine. Our featured poet will be Starkey Flythe, who will be accompanied by the Washington group award winners Ashley Wilson and Andrew Hasben, Broken Ink Contributors and staff, members of the Guild of Poetic Intent and a group of student poets from the USCA community. Don’t miss the greatest release show on Earth!

The 2011 issue of Broken Ink has just been sent to the printer, which means our debut is right around the corner!  We are set to release the magazine to the general public on Tuesday, April 19th at the 2011 Ink Show. Since the supply is limited, Broken Ink would like to invite students, faculty and staff of USCA to reserve their very own copy of this year’s issue.  Those who are interested in guaranteeing themselves a copy can email us at brokenink@usca.edu. Make sure to have the subject line read, “Reserve my copy of Broken Ink” and include your name and phone number in the email body.  Reserve list copies will be distributed during the week leading up to the general release date, so don’t miss this chance to get your hands on the magazine early!

We asked for submissions, and you gave us an absolutely overwhelming response! We’ve gone from 89 total submissions last year to 200+ this year! In fact, last Saturday, we all gathered as a staff to sort through them all, and there was just so much that one day was simply not enough to get to it all! Thus, once again, this Saturday, it’s JUDGEMENT DAY! We’re looking very forward to experiencing the rest of your wonderful work, dear submitters, and good luck to each and every one of you in the selection process. Thanks again for giving us the privilege of experiencing your work!

Dear friends, it is now submission crunch time! If you’ve even remotely considered submitting your work to Broken Ink, NOW is the time to do so! When that final deadline (Feb 4th) passes, so does the opportunity! Don’t let it pass you by! Brush it up, and follow the instructions here to submit it! We look forward to seeing your work!

National Day on Writing is on October 20th and Broken Ink will be celebrating outside the H&SS building! We’ll have a number of writing activities for students to get their creative juices flowing, as well as games and a haiku contest. Come by from 11-3 to contribute your thoughts to the “What writing means to me” box, add to the two serial stories that will be written as a group effort throughout the day, play “Stump the Poet”, and submit your entry to the Halloween Haiku Contest. Submissions are open now at the Broken Ink Facebook page.

The rules for the Halloween Haiku Contest are pretty simple: make a haiku about Halloween, post it to our Facebook wall or turn it in on the National Day on Writing (October 20th), which is also the deadline for the contest. We will then judge the haiku and broadcast our final decisions via Facebook, Student News, and the Stall Wall. The top 3 haikus will also be published in the 2011 issue of Broken Ink.

If you’ve forgotten what a haiku is, fret not! It is a three-lined poem with the syllable counts of 5-7-5 in each line. Here is an example:

A black cat meows ( a – black – cat – me – ows) [5]

whilst the moon beckons liars (whilst – the – moon – beck – ons – li – ars) [7]

to shed their shackles. (to – shed – their – shack – les) [5]

Only USCA students can participate. No limit to the entries but only one from each person can win. Thanks for taking your time to read this note! A haiku entry is a couple clicks away! Also, come see us from 11-3 in front of the H&SS on October 20th! We’d love to see you!

The stories and poems we write at the National Day on Writing will all be featured at the National Gallery of Writing, which can be found here:

As of this past Wednesday, the 2010 installment of Broken Ink is now available to the general public. Pick up your copy from various locations across campus, or check it out online on our Current Issue page.