Illuminations 32 went to print in June 2017 and is now available. Dedicated
to poetry from South Africa and guest-edited by Kobus Moolman, the issue is the largest we have ever produced and contains an impressive range of the best poets writing in English in South Africa.
The next open issue of Illuminations
will be issue 33, which will be published in June 2018. Please consider sending us your work for inclusion in number 33.
In addition to the print issues of the magazine, Illuminations has also created a blog-site that is featuring work continuing to address the theme of race in the United States begun in issue 31. This series, including poems by Martin Espada, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Safiya Sinclair, was kicked off by a powerful essay by Brenda Marie Osbey, entitled "Fallen at Charleston" (http://blogs.cofc.edu/illuminations/2016/10/05/fallen-at-charleston/). If you would like to contribute to this series of electronically-published material, please contact the editor, Simon Lewis, at lewiss@cofc.edu.
Illuminations made its first appearance in Columbia, South Carolina in 1982 under the editorship of Peter McMillan. The issue featured poems by Seamus Heaney, Stephen Spender, and newcomer Sam Boone. Subsequently edited from England, Japan, and Tanzania, the magazine returned to South Carolina in 1996. Over these many years Illuminations has remained consistently true to its mission to publish new writers alongside some of the world’s finest, including Nadine Gordimer, James Merrill, Carol Ann Duffy, Dennis Brutus, Allen Tate, interviews with Tim O’Brien, and letters from Flannery O’Connor and Ezra Pound. A number of new poets whose early work appeared in Illuminations have gone on to win prizes and accolades, and we at Illuminations sincerely value the chance to promote the work of emerging writers.
In addition to the print issues of the magazine, Illuminations has also created a blog-site that is featuring work continuing to address the theme of race in the United States begun in issue 31. This series, including poems by Martin Espada, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Safiya Sinclair, was kicked off by a powerful essay by Brenda Marie Osbey, entitled "Fallen at Charleston" (http://blogs.cofc.edu/illuminations/2016/10/05/fallen-at-charleston/). If you would like to contribute to this series of electronically-published material, please contact the editor, Simon Lewis, at lewiss@cofc.edu.
Illuminations made its first appearance in Columbia, South Carolina in 1982 under the editorship of Peter McMillan. The issue featured poems by Seamus Heaney, Stephen Spender, and newcomer Sam Boone. Subsequently edited from England, Japan, and Tanzania, the magazine returned to South Carolina in 1996. Over these many years Illuminations has remained consistently true to its mission to publish new writers alongside some of the world’s finest, including Nadine Gordimer, James Merrill, Carol Ann Duffy, Dennis Brutus, Allen Tate, interviews with Tim O’Brien, and letters from Flannery O’Connor and Ezra Pound. A number of new poets whose early work appeared in Illuminations have gone on to win prizes and accolades, and we at Illuminations sincerely value the chance to promote the work of emerging writers.
Since August 1st, 2014, Illuminations has once again been accepting submissions. As a magazine devoted primarily to poetry we publish only one or two pieces of short fiction and/or non-fiction in any given year, and sometimes publish none at all. Please make sure that anything you send us has not been published elsewhere already and is not currently under consideration elsewhere. In the case of a piece translated from a language other than English, please send us the original along with your translation (this is for review purposes only; we generally publish the translation only).
Since August 1st, 2014, Illuminations has once again been accepting submissions. As a magazine devoted primarily to poetry we publish only one or two pieces of short fiction and/or non-fiction in any given year, and sometimes publish none at all. Please make sure that anything you send us has not been published elsewhere already and is not currently under consideration elsewhere. In the case of a piece translated from a language other than English, please send us the original along with your translation (this is for review purposes only; we generally publish the translation only).
Since August 1st, 2014, Illuminations has again been accepting submissions of poetry. Please send no more than six poems at a time. Please do not send poems that have been published already elsewhere or that are currently under consideration elsewhere. In the case of translations of poems originally written in languages other than English, please send a copy of the original along with the translation (this is for purposes of review; we generally publish only the translation).
