You can submit your writing and/or art at any time, but we’ve extended our deadline this year until December 18 to allow students to finish up the coursework before submitting, if needed.

Click Submissions to get the details and submit your work!
You can submit your writing and/or art at any time, but we’ve extended our deadline this year until December 18 to allow students to finish up the coursework before submitting, if needed.

Click Submissions to get the details and submit your work!
Thank you to everyone who was a part of root and branch Volume XII! A bonus thank you to all who came and shared at the 2019 Words and Pictures. Click here to see photos of the event and the click Current Issue to read the magazine itself.
2019 Writing Contest Winners
Jake Alexander, “We All Look Up”
Ian McLane Collier, “Popcorn”
Kelly Sturgeon, “New Fruit”
2019 Art Contest Winners
MacKenzie Melvin, “Ice Storm, November 2018”
Salem Naylor, “Serene Slumber”
Fitz Simmons, “All’s Well”
(MacKenzie was also responsible for this issue’s cover art, “January’s Breath”)
The December 1 is fast approaching — please send us your work!
Click Submissions to get the details.

Root and Branch received a second place award in the 2018 CCHA Literary Magazine Competition (Central Region, Large Colleges division).
Two of our students also earned awards:
Rachel Batka won 2nd Place for her photo “Equilibrium” (Photography, Central Region)

Salem Naylor won 3rd Place for her cover art “Silent Duel” (Artwork, Central Region)

Three of our students have been awarded four certificates in the Community College Humanities Association 2017 Literary Magazine Competition for their work that was published in Mé Tis, vol. X:
Brynn Parkinson: 1st Place Best Script Central Region for “Chatterbox Bus Stop”
Nikolas Maden: 2nd Place Poems Central Region for “Tempest” and 3rd Place Best Photography Central Region for “Gatherings”
Kenneth Fahr: 3rd Place Creative Nonfiction Central Region for “First Contact”