Gravity Hill
2007-2008 Editing Team |
This year the fourth edition of Gravity Hill was produced by the St. Andrews College Press. Gravity Hill, a student-run literary magazine, features the work of members of the St. Andrews community—students, faculty, staff, alumni, and others in the local community. This includes but is not limited to short stories, poems, nonfiction essays, and artwork. The name "Gravity Hill" has its origin in a local Scotland County landmark—a small hill at the intersection of Old Maxton and Stewartsville Cemetary Roads where, according to legend, cars are pulled uphill and away from the intersection by unseen ghosts trying to protect the passengers of these vehicles from harm. Though this phenomenon can be explained scientifically, many of us believe there is something more ethereal at play. Each spring an upperclass student is chosen to serve as the editor of Gravity Hill the following school year. (If you are interested in this position, please see a member of the creative writing faculty.) This student learns valuable editing and publishing skills, including how to liason with contributors and use desktop publishing software (such as QuarkXPress and Adobe Photoshop). Creative submissions for Gravity Hill are taken in the fall of each year from interested students, alumni, faculty, staff, and people from the general community. The selection process takes place early in the spring semester, and the work selected is published in a new issue of Gravity Hill each April. Finally, five Gravity Hill awards are given at the time of publication: the Gravity Hill Award for prose, the Gravity Hill Award for poetry, the Marie Gilbert Award for the best poem about the ocean, the Vi Gale Award for the best poem dealing with horses or horsemanship, and the Nancy Bradberry Award for the best poem written in traditional rhyme and meter. Gravity Hill can be purchased at the St. Andrews Press Office for $5.00. |
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