The Critical Point

Be there or be ◼️.

Our staff is hard at work! We’re wrapping up edits and planning the format of the journal. And we are also prepping our Scholar’s Day presentation for next week!

Professor Flaherty joined the staff yesterday for a crash course in InDesign. We learned about parent pages, picas, bleeds, slugs, and character styles. The best advice she gave us was, when in doubt look around!

Everyone who submitted their work is taking a chance to be vulnerable, and that does not go unseen by The Critical Point staff. We sincerely appreciate the opportunity to see you work.

Thank you. ❤️

We loved talking with you all in the commons this week! If you have any last minute questions send us a DM or email [email protected].

You can also email that account with your submissions. They’re due at midnight tonight!

Send us your writing and art! The submission deadline is almost a week away, don’t wait until the last minute.

Visit the link in our bio for full submission details or reach out to [email protected].

THE SUBMISSION FORM IS IN ITS WAY!

Start prepping your submissions for the 38th edition of The Critical Point, and make sure you’re ready for the February 6th deadline.

We generally accept any writing and art, as long as it was created by an undergrad at Carlow. Please make sure you are submitting original work! If you have any questions about our guidelines, or the journal itself, feel free to DM this account or email the staff at [email protected].

No one said your submissions had to be made specifically for The Critical Point. We don’t have themes or content requirements, so we encourage you to make the most of your assignments. You can submit creative work, or critical work. This means you can submit anything from research essays to sketches.

This week, we recommend you put your friends to work! Having another set of eyes can be a great way to get feedback and understand how another person interprets your work.

Every year, dozens of students submit their best writing and art to The Critical Point. Our staff has the tough job of deciding which pieces get published and which ones don’t make the cut.

Before you know it, in just a few months, we’ll be closing submissions and trying to make those difficult decisions. So, we figured we could let you in on the process! For the rest of the semester, Critical Point staff will be letting you in on our favorite tips to give you some insight while you’re crafting your submission.

This week, we advise you to take editing seriously. Take a step back and look at your piece from a different lens, you may be surprised by what you see. Be critical.

Before you know it, it’ll be February and submissions for our 48th edition will be due. What’s our best advice? Don’t wait until then to finish your piece.

It’s usually pretty clear when a piece was workshopped overnight, and very rarely are those the submissions that get published. Besides, we want you to enjoy the process of crafting your submission!

Here are a few writing prompts to get your wheels turning.

Take Critcal Point this spring!