Writing at Lake Forest
Lake Forest College boasts a writing culture supported by student-run publications, a cutting-edge writing program, our own press, writing contests and scholarships, and the Writers' Guild. Whether you are interested in foreign-language, creative, scientific, non-fiction, or experimental writing, our community is sure to have a place for you.
Student-run publications
Collage and Tusitala
Our two literary magazines, Collage and Tusitala, publish creative writing by students from a wide variety of disciplines. The difference? Collage publishes writing in a variety of foreign languages; Tusitala
publishes the varying voices in English.
Eukaryon
Our undergraduate research journal that publishes the very best of life science scholarship conducted by Lake Forest students. The journal celebrates and highlights the academic accomplishments of students achieved within the research-rich classrooms and student-centered research labs of Lake Forest College faculty.
The Stentor
Our college newspaper was first published during the 1886-87 academic year and continues to serve as the students' weekly journal of record. The newspaper covers features, news, editorials, sports, and offers a voice to the students of the College.
The English Writing Program
Led by professor/writer/editor/publisher Davis Schneiderman, the English department offers the writing track, which allows students to take classes in their genre of choice as well as to complement their writing by reading classic and contemporary literature.
Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books
Lake Forest College Press publishes in the broad spaces of Chicago studies. Our imprint, &NOW Books, publishes innovative and conceptual literature, and serves as the publishing arm of the &NOW writers' conference and organization. The press also sponsors the Lake Forest College Press Lecture & Reading Series.
Lake Forest Literary Festival
The English department hosts the annual Lake Forest Literary Festival, in which contemporary writers showcase their newest fiction. Guests have included Raymond Federman and Shelley Jackson.
The Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer's Residency Prize
Each spring, Lake Forest College, in conjunction with the &NOW Festival, sponsors emerging writers under forty years old--with no major book publication--to spend two months in residence at our campus in Chicago's northern suburbs on the shore of Lake Michigan.
Writing Contests and Scholarships
Lake Forest College supports student writers by offering a wide variety of awards and scholarships. To see a list of these, as well as their respective requirements, click here.
The Writers' Guild of Lake Forest
The Writers' Guild is a student group that meets once a week to conduct informal workshops on a variety of writing pieces and styles. The Guild showcased its talents at the last Student Symposium, where students read experimental fiction and poetry to a group of students and professors.
For more information on the Writers' Guild, contact Alysha Sidhu at sidhuas@lakeforest.edu.
