Call for Submissions: The Birch -- An Undergraduate Journal of Eastern European and Eurasian Culture

[Mark Krotov]

To All Professors and Slavic Instructors:

In 2005, a group of undergraduates at Columbia University founded *The
Birch,* an undergraduate journal of Eastern European and Eurasian culture.
Over the last one and a half years, we have published three issues that
showcase a great diversity of creative work and critical commentaries.

Though the first two issues of *The Birch* published submissions from
Columbia and Barnard undergraduates exclusively, for our third issue, we
began to accept submissions from all interested undergraduates regardless of
their university affiliation, and the same holds true for our forthcoming
issue, which will be released in December.

*The Birch* is one of few places where undergraduates can publish poems,
fiction, photography, literary criticism and current events articles related
to Eurasian and Eastern European culture. The journal is completely
student-run, and undergraduates select and edit the journal's content. Our
student editors are currently in the process of e-mailing undergraduate
students at colleges and universities in order to publicize our call for
submissions.

Last semester, we appointed undergraduate editors-at-large at colleges and
universities across the country who served as point persons in the
collection of submissions at their home institutions, and we would only like
to expand this process for the fourth issue. Please e-mail us if you know an
undergraduate student at your university who would be a good contact for our
editorial board.

We hope you will join us in the strengthening and expansion of the first
national undergraduate publication devoted to Eastern European and Eurasian
culture. You can find more information about the journal, as well as
published articles from our first three issues, online at
www.thebirchonline.org. Please visit the site for more information, and feel
free to send me an e-mail at mk2455 at columbia.edu if you have any questions.
Due dates for the next issue are as follows:

- Preliminary topic proposals for the culture and affairs sections must be
sent to the board for approval: *DUE OCTOBER 1

* - Literary criticism, poetry, prose, photography and creative non-fiction
submissions: *DUE OCTOBER 10

* - Final versions of culture and politics articles: *DUE OCTOBER 17*

We hope you will encourage your students to submit to the journal. Please
instruct them to contact us if they have any questions. Thank you very much.

Best regards,
Mark Krotov
Editor-In-Chief, *The Birch**
*www.thebirchonline.org

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