Publish Your Writing
Sep 20th, 2007 by Vikram Rajan
10 years ago today… well, yesterday… I launched my SUNY Albany’s creative writing magazine, The Fountain Pen. The name was a pun on all the celebrated fountains around campus. Earlier this month, 10 years ago, I had produced an advert calling for submissions.
The call to action was simple and to the point. I started the magazine because there was a void: Our campus of over 20,000 students did not have a creative writing & arts magazine; and more selfishly, I didn’t have a soapbox for my writing.
(Incidentally, I got into a lot of flack because I didn’t feel censoring the rants of our students was prudent. As you can imagine, the angst and diversity could clash with more conservative viewpoints. I defended our write to express ourselves to the end.)
And now, 10 years later, my plea to you is to do the same. It need not be poetry or short stories, but articles from your expertise will help position your personal brand.
The Albany Student Press, and The Fountain Pen, used to have a Wikipedia page… alas, it is now gone. Ah well, at least I still have my original ad hanging up and the original issues somewhere.
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