Student Publications Collection

The first issue of the literary anthology Rainroots was published in 1974 by the Cooper Point Journal and the Information Center. The anthology included student artwork, photography, writing both prose and poetry. Rainroots seems to have fizzled out in 1977 due to lack of submissions. Similar Evergreen literary magazines, like “Frost is...,” met the same fate.

The Cooper Point Journal was not the only entity publishing on campus. The Arts Resource Center produced multiple literary journals led by students such as “Tightrope” and “Trillium.” Several student groups, such as the Evergreen Experimental Writing Community and the Evergreen Writers Guild, put out publications.

First Peoples Press was a campus editorial collective, possibly associated with the First Peoples Advising Services in the 1990s. It published at least five anthologies created by Evergreen students of color, although this collection only has three of those anthologies.

The literary magazine, Slightly West, was created to replace Rhetoric after it ceased publication. It was published by the Evergreen Jewish student group called Maarava and had its first publication in 1985. At some point before 2006, publication of Slightly West was taken over by the Student Activities Board (it is possible that this happened after Maarava stopped being a student organization on campus). Currently, Slightly West is a separate student organization that selects artwork, photography, and writing through a jury process and publishes the work once a year.

The publication Inkwell was published by the Writing Center from 2006 to 2018. It featured essays and writings about writing, often from peer tutors at the Center, but from the general Evergreen student population, as well. The publication discussed “the writing process, tutoring writing, types of writing specific to Evergreen, and the intersections of society and writing.”

Programs have also been a source of student publications, both in book form and in zine form. Some of the following programs have publications that have been included in this collection: Art and Archive; Tacoma summer bridge program: Breathing Stories 2 Life; Picturing Plants; Intimate Nature: Communication Older Than Words; Democracy and Tyranny; Wildlife: Conservation and Writing; Grays Harbor program: Telling Our Stories: What Makes Communities Work; Gothic Constructions; Conceptualizing Place: Pacific Northwest Native Art and Geographies; Sense of Place; Engaging Cuba: Uncommon Approaches to the Common Good; Arts, Mindfulness, and Psychology: Racial Identity Through the Lifespan Zine Intro; The Mural Project; Immigrant Voices: Writing, Labor and Community Stories, as well as a student’s Independent Learning Contract.

The history of zines at Evergreen, by their nature, is difficult to trace except to say that students have been making zines at and about Evergreen since at least the 1990s and certainly before.



Sources:

The Cooper Point Journal Volume 3, No. 18 (February 27, 1975)

The Cooper Point Journal Volume 5, Issue 15 (February 24, 1977)

https://www.evergreen.edu/writingcenter/inkwell-student-guide-writing-evergreen

https://archives.evergreen.edu/1976/1976-26/Alumn_Office_Publications/Evergreen_Magazine/2002SprEM-V23N2.pdf

https://inkwellpublication.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/tescinkwell2006_volume01_larsson_howtogetyourwritingpublishedatevergreen.pdf

https://www.evergreen.edu/activities/student-groups