Border Crossing

About

Border Crossing is a literary and arts journal published by the Lake Superior State University Creative Writing Program. In contrast to many campus literary journals, our editorial board consists of both faculty and student editors.

Uniquely situated as we are on the border of America and Canada, we actively seek to print the best work by emerging and established American and Canadian writers. We also consider work by writers of other nationalities, as well as the very best student writing. We consider ourselves a “teaching journal,” in that one of our main goals is to give our English and creative writing students editing and publishing opportunities prior to graduation. All of our submissions go through a rigorous editorial board process, with no distinction made between the standards for student and professional work. Visual art is only considered from residents of Michigan's Upper Peninsula 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