Short Vine Spring 2025 Theme: Perseverance & Permanence
With the beginning of another semester comes another Short Vine issue; this semester, submissions opened on Friday, January 31st and will be open through March 31st. Of course, another issue also means another theme has been chosen by our team. This spring, key ideas such as “Colossus,” “Unsilenced,” and “Regrowth” led us to explore what […]
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 […]
Literary Nonfiction Book Recommendations
In the world of literature and books, there’s a multitude of genres. Some genres we enjoy more than others, and some we may not be very familiar with. One such genre that may not be as well known to readers is literary nonfiction. Literary nonfiction tells stories through styles and techniques that are grounded in […]
Spring Writing Prompts
Here at Short Vine, spring remains coy. We may have a day here or there that flirts with seventydegrees, but we haven’t yet seen the season’s first blossoms, though we’re patiently waiting.You may have noticed that our spring ‘24 theme is SEEDS. This could be literal–as in, foliage–orfigurative. What seeds are you planting in your […]
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 Tyler McDonald
Tyler‘s poem “Space Boots” was featured in our Fall 2022 edition of Short Vine. Read to learn more about Tyler’s writing process for this poem. Haven’t read “Space Boots” yet? Head over to our Instagram reel to listen to Tyler read the poem! 1. Short Vine’s Fall 2022 edition focused on dreams, nightmares, and bouts […]
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.