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OGDEN, Utah, March 2, 2007 - WSU Honors students Clayton David Gerrard and Paul Edward Clayton have both received notice that their works will be published in the 2007 Edition of Scribendi magazine.
Clayton received official notice last week that his mid-length poem, “ambulatory peregrinations,” will be published this spring. The work is part of a poem cycle he is writing entitled “Orphan at 27.”
Scribendi asked him to make several changes prior to publication. His poem is unmistakably set in Norway. Clayton said, “I combined an English word ‘glisten’ with the Norwegian word ‘glitrer’ to create ‘glister,’ which gave a much better sound to the line than ‘glisten.’ The context makes the meaning clear.”
After pointing this out, the editor said the poem will be published as originally submitted.
Gerrard’s short story was also selected for publication. “Jenny” is a tale of a four-year-old girl. Gerrard said, “All she wants is her daddy’s attention, but she cannot get it. She has to pretend to be something she’s not in order to get it.”
There was one difficulty with his story’s publication as well. “I tried to make the dialog true to northern Utah colloquialisms. They wanted it grammatically accurate, but I said ‘No.’” The magazine’s staff deferred to his experience.
The 22-year-old literary magazine published only 10 works of prose and 15 poems last year. The 320 submissions to Scribendi this year are limited to University Honors undergraduates. Gerrard and Clayton are friends and seniors in WSU’s University Honors Program. Gerrard is an English major, and Clayton is an English major with a Creative Writing emphasis.
The University Honors Program “has made my time here at WSU much more meaningful,” said Clayton. “In Honors, I’ve met some of the most brilliant minds on campus—both students and faculty—and those associations have been very helpful.”
Gerrard said, “I’m honored to be published with my friend Paul.”
The 2007 Edition of Scribendi will be introduced at the Western Regional Honors Council Conference in Fullerton, Calif. on April 12.
Scribendi is a publication of University of New Mexico’s Honors Program. It accepts several hundred submissions per year from 220 accredited schools in 11 western states. Last year, the magazine published 48 works of art, including digital art, essays, photography, poetry, short fiction, and visual art.
Editor’s note: Michael Fisher is also enrolled in the University Honors Program at WSU.
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