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A message from the editors. Last spring when the editorial staff of undefined announced that we were accepting submissions for our First Annual Creative Writing Competition, we all looked at one another and, well, we smirked. It wasn’t the creative writing part that made us grin. We had no doubt that our readers would provide us with high quality examples of poetry and prose. It was the First Annual part that got us – the implication that there would be more competitions in subsequent years to come. Our team had only been together for a few months and we all knew the idea of us being together long enough for us to hold a Second Annual Creative Writing Competition was … let’s just say far-fetched. Yet, here we are. So it is with immense pride that we present undefined Magazine’s Second Annual Summer Reader, containing the winners of our Second Annual Creative Writing Competition. Our winners hail from as far away as Wisconsin and as close as our neighbors next door. This makes us happy. In many ways, it epitomizes what we had hoped for undefined from the beginning. We wanted a forum where we could present, no, let’s just say it, where we could show off the immeasurable talent in Columbia, and South Carolina at large. At the same time, we
wanted to help bring a taste of the larger world of artistic ability to the eyes of our artists, patrons, and readers. We believe that, in some small way, when it comes to the literary arts, this issue accomplishes both goals. We also introduce two new projects in this issue. Fresh Paint is a new element of the magazine which will feature the freshest works by Southeastern artists in a stand-alone format. We’re also using this issue to announce our First Annual undefined Magazine Photography Competition coming up later this year. As with Fresh Paint, we’re looking for work that has not been exhibited previously, and that is excellent and innovative. Winners will be published in a photo-centric issue of the magazine in early 2012. For more information on both Fresh Paint and our First Annual Photography Competition, please turn to page 9. We hope you enjoy this issue of undefined Magazine as much as we enjoyed putting it together. Thanks for reading.
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