Where Can I Submit Now?

Short Vine’s Fall 2024 issue: Illusion/delusion is live! Thank you to all of the artists and authors that submitted their work, our editors had so much fun working with you all. Please check out the current and archived issues of Short Vine on our site! Our submissions will not reopen until Spring 2025, but in […]

A Discussion on Theme: What is Reality but Perception?

Submissions for the next edition of Short Vine have recently opened. With that comes a new team of editors, a new website design, and, perhaps most importantly, a brand-new theme. This fall, we have decided to explore the theme, Living Between Illusion and Delusion: What is Reality but Perception? What does this mean, though? What […]

Poetry Book Recommendations

There is an endless ocean of fantastic poetry books, collections, and chapbooks available for our perusal. With that endless ocean comes a tide of inspiration that any poet can benefit from, whether it’s inspiration through form or theme or content. I’ve admittedly only just begun to wet my feet, so instead of recommending poetry books […]

Short Vine’s History

Short Vine’s first edition came out in the Spring of 2003 and is still published by undergraduates at UC today. To learn more about Short Vine’s history, I interviewed founder Katie Hartsock and previous faculty advisors Jay Twomey and Kristen Iversen to learn more about how the journal came to be and how it has […]

An Interview with Mars Robinson

Mars’ poem, “we’ve never been more of an ocean than right now,” was featured in our Fall 2022 edition of Short Vine. We sat down to talk to Mars about the writing process.