MSU’s Inscape accepting art and writing submissions for 2027 issue

Prizes are offered in visual art competitions. A $100 first-place prize will be awarded for the selected cover design. For artwork selected for the interior of the publication, awards include $100 for first place, $75 for second place, $50 for third place and $25 for honorable mention. Entrants in the visual art competitions must be MSU students.

Writers may submit poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction for consideration for publication. First-place prizes of $100 are awarded in the poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction categories. MSU student status is required to receive a literary prize, although submissions for inclusion in the magazine are open to non-students as well.

Inscape is an annual MSU publication with a long history of showcasing visual and literary art, with its first issue published in 1957. Media and genres represented in the journal include prose, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, photography, printmaking, painting, design, drawing, illustration, digital art, mixed media, ceramics and sculpture.

The publication is coordinated by the Department of English & Modern Languages and the Department of Communication, Media, Art & Design.

For more information, you can contact Assistant Professor of Art & Design Ainaz Alipour at aalipour@moreheadstate.edu or call 606-783-2763.

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