They’re in! Pick up a copy on campus!
Not a UNC student?
If you can’t pick up a print issue of Cellar Door— don’t fret. We will be scanning some of the spring selections to the tumblr for your reading/viewing pleasure.
Spring 2013 Art Winners
1. “Intimacy” - Sarah Hey
2. “Our Grandfather” - Danielle Balderas
3. “Seascape With Figures” - Anne Symons
All of these prize-winning works will be int he print issue, so make sure you pick one up on campus!
Spring 2013 Fiction Winners
1. The Summer of Love - Madison Bakalar
2. Scuppernong - AJ White
3. The Second Sinatra - Jared Shaffer
All of these prize-winning works will be in the print issue, so make sure you pick one up on campus!
Spring 2013 Poetry Winners
1. Chandelier - Ben Miller
2. Light Pollution After Midnight - Ben Miller
3. Split Ends - Charlotte Fryar
All of these prize-winning works will be in the print issue, so make sure you pick one up on campus!
Attention UNC Students and Chapel Hill residents!
Join us Wednesday, April 24th at Bull’s Head Bookshop for the official release of the Spring 2013 issue of Cellar Door. We invite all print and online published writers and artists to come share their works. Come get your FREE copy!
The event runs from 6:30 to 8:30. We hope to see you all there!
Kind of Blue by Rachel Ivy Wolf
(No) Vacancy by Coco Wilder
Weevil Hardtack
By Angela Lin
Union soldiers joked
that weevil in flour
was the only fresh meat
they would ever see.
Instead of sugar, the men
crumbled and sprinkled
their rations of hardtack
into morning coffee:
the hot liquid soothed
the cracked biscuit skin,
made it limp and soft
enough to choke down.
Best of all, weevil larvae
would float to top of cups:
making it easy to skim them out
quick with tin spoons.
The soldiers preferred to eat
in the forgiving dark,
imagining the extra crunch
was just stale crumbs, praying:
Lord, though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death,
I will fear no weevil,
For Thou are with me.
How to Get Published in The New Yorker
By Josh King
Reference, at minimum,
two types of plants or grasses:
whorled milkweed, for example; an
alfalfa sprout or two—maybe even
a spiny-leaved sow thistle
if you’re looking to make
an impression. The more obscure,
the better!
In terms of content: aim for
impenetrability, but
settle for mere obfuscation.
(Remember, obfuscation leads to publication!)
If your poem has any narrative
thread or thematic coherence,
you’re doing it wrong.
Alter your name so it
reads more like a poet’s:
first and middle initials
followed by surname.
If that doesn’t work,
submit under a pseudonym:
‘Henri Cole’ and ‘Natasha
Trethewey’ are safe bets.
