
Words and Pictures 2025






If you are interested in attending, please email cwall10@ivytech.edu for the Zoom link.

Contact bl-litmag@lists.ivytech.edu for more information!
Because of Covid-19, we couldn’t have our usual magazine release party, but we’ve done our best to put together a virtual celebration.
Thank you to this year’s editors, contributors, and all those who helped make this volume happen — the Ivy Tech-Bloomington English Department, Obie James, Annette Spurgeon, and Ivy Tech-Bloomington Facilities and Security.
Come hear writers from across our communities read work. Readers include root and branch advisor, Christine Brandel, and the winner of our first Writing Across Communities Contest for High School Writers!
All ages are welcome.


We hope you had a great summer and are all geared up for the fall semester!
If you’d like a print copy of root and branch XII, please stop by the Resource and Involvement Fair on Tuesday, Aug. 27, from 1.30-4.30 and Wednesday, Aug. 28, from 9.00-1.00 (both in Shreve Hall). We’ll be distributing the remaining copies there.
And don’t forget our submission deadline is December 1.
Have a great first week!