Submission

CALL FOR PAPERS: Magna Verba 2024 - Coming Fall 2023

Latin: “great words”

“We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, 

for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.”  -Thomas Aquinas

Created by members of the Aquinas College Writing Center, Magna Verba is an annual publication that showcases academic writing composed by students in classes at Aquinas College. This publication is evidence that critical thinking and analytical writing are valued at Aquinas College; we aim to display our student commitment to the pillars of community and study. Magna Verba strives to be as interdisciplinary as possible and encourages submissions from across disciplines. 

If you have any academic writing from your time at Aquinas College, we encourage you to submit to Magna Verba in the fall. We want to include pieces from every genre and discipline, including humanities, sciences, business, math and everything in between: papers from I&E, lab reports, art history papers, research papers, literary and critical reviews, original case-studies, field notes, capstone papers and more. Submissions cannot exceed ten pages (excluding references pages). The official Call For Papers will be announced in the fall for pieces to be published in Magna Verba 2024.

If you have written in what is traditionally considered a creative writing genre (i.e. poetry, fiction, etc.), we encourage you to submit your writing to the SAMPLER. 

What Happens Next: Submissions will go through a blind review by an editorial board comprised of AQ Writing Center consultants who will select pieces to be included in Magna Verba. Students will be notified if one of their pieces has been accepted; selected pieces will require a Writing Center author-consultant appointment prior to the submission of a final composition for publication. 

Questions? Email Magna Verba editor Matt Schieber or ask a consultant at thewritingcenter@aquinas.edu

We want to fill Magna Verba with your great words.