UMO’s Literary Magazine Releases Spring 2019 Edition

MOUNT OLIVE- The University of Mount Olive Department of English has released the spring edition of its online literary magazine, The Olive Press.  This edition contains poems, flash, essays, and short stories. All totaled, there are 16 works in the seventh online edition.

Contributing writer Carrah Faircloth, Director of the UMO Writing Center said, “I’m always excited and honored to have my work published in The Olive Press!”  Faircloth’s piece, “Once, When I Was with the Band,” explores music and love in the city of Boston.

Contributor Geoff Martin, a writer and educator from Massachusetts, submitted a gardening-themed piece entitled, “Somehow, Potatoes.”  “The thing with writing, as with gardening, is that it’s mostly a waiting game,” Martin explained. “You wait for draft work to grow a bit, you wait for rain, you wait for occasional acceptances to come your way. A year and a half later, and after a handful of rejections, I’m so grateful that The Olive Press offered to cellar my potato piece in its seventh online edition.”

Submissions for the fall issue are currently being accepted until April 15. All submissions are welcome. For more information, please contact Rachel McCullen at rcm2074@umo.edu.

The University of Mount Olive is a private institution rooted in the liberal arts tradition with defining Christian values. The University, sponsored by the Convention of Original Free Will Baptists, has locations in Mount Olive, New Bern, Wilmington, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Research Triangle Park, Washington, Jacksonville, in Smithfield at Johnston Community College, and online.  For more information, visitwww.umo.edu.