Border Crossing

About

Border Crossing is a literary and arts journal published by the Lake Superior State University Creative Writing Program. Uniquely situated on the border of America and Canada, we're committed to publishing the best work submitted by emerging and established writers on both sides of the border, as well as supporting literacy and the literary arts in the sister cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Ontario.

We're especially interested in writing that crosses boundaries in genre or geography, and voices that aren't often heard in mainstream publications. The best way to see what we mean by this is to order a copy of our latest issue. All of our submissions go through a rigorous editorial process. We consider ourselves a “teaching journal,” in that one of our main goals is to create editing and publishing opportunities for LSSU English and creative writing students prior to graduation. Visual art is only considered from residents of Michigan's Upper Peninsula or Ontario in order to provide an outlet where area artists may publish their work.

Our journal was founded in 2011 and is on its second issue. The work of the contributors to our inaugural issue has been anthologized in American and Canadian publications and appeared in Arts and Letters, The American Voice, Appalachian Journal, Blackbird, Blast Furnace, The Canadian Federation of Poetry, Cave Wall, Cimarron Review, Decanto Magazine in England, Driftwood, Ecotone, Gulf Coast, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indiana Review, The Los Angeles Review, Massachusetts Review, Melusine, The Mid-American Review, The National Poetry Review, New Mexico Poetry Review, Oxford American, Pleiades, Poetry Ireland Review, The Sheepshead Review, Touch Magazine, The Tower Journal, and The Washington Square Review, among other journals.

Editors

Julie Brooks Barbour, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Art
Mary McMyne, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art