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Traveler Literary Winners for 2022-2023

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Thank you to everyone who submitted creative work to the Traveler for this academic year. We are honored and grateful for your participation in our literary contest. The contest is closed for now, but it will reopen again in Fall 2023.

Without further ado, here are the literary selections for this year’s Traveler:

Fiction

  • 1st Place: The Dreamer, by Ben Bruce
  • 2nd Place: 8 Minutes and 20 Seconds, by Jack Nichols
  • 3rd Place: Bioluminescent Walks After Dark, by Joselyn Lopez
  • Honorable Mention: Front Doors, by Jessie Kurak
  • Honorable Mention: Beer Run, by Patrick McCarthy

Creative Nonfiction

  • 1st Place: The Tallest Grass, by Lilli Titus
  • 2nd Place: Lucky Fish, by Jessie Kurak
  • 3rd Place: Problems as a Straight Woman, by Lilli Titus
  • Honorable Mention: First Drink, by Patrick McCarthy

Poetry

  • 1st Place: A Love Song to Tomatoes, by Carol Powell
  • 2nd Place: Room for Dessert, by Jessie Kurak
  • 3rd Place: Stone Fires, by Brianna Lucio
  • Honorable Mention: Carousel, by Jessie Kurak
  • Honorable Mention: The Storm, by Hailey Wyman

One-Act Play/Drama

  • 1st Place: The Gas Station, by Catherine Cubillas
  • 2nd Place: Bunny Island, by Constantine Dino Cotton
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Traveler Literary Selections for 2021-2022

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After extensive review of nearly 100 submissions, we are happy to announce the selections for our Traveler: Arts & Literary Magazine. Congratulations to our selected authors, and thank you to everyone who submitted. We are honored to read your work, and we hope that you will continue to submit your creations to Traveler during your time at GCC. Thank you, as well, to our student readers and our faculty and community judges. We could not do this without you!

Fiction

  • 1st Place: Half Life, by Carol Powell
  • 2nd Place: Cuyahoga Cuspidor Company, by Peter Faur
  • 3rd Place: I’m Afraid, by Jack Nichols
  • Honorable Mention: Call Me Bathysklera, by Francis Wiget
  • Honorable Mention: You Get What You Pay For, by Francis Wiget

Creative Nonfiction

  • 1st Place: Paper Jungle, by Angela Lilu
  • 2nd Place: God Loves Ugly, by Chuck Wan
  • 3rd Place: The Lynx Lake Trail, by Joselyn Maria Lopez

Poetry

  • 1st Place: Fury, by Abbigayle McCall
  • 2nd Place: The Lonely Trees, by Joselyn Maria Lopez
  • 3rd Place: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, by Abbigayle McCall
  • Honorable Mention: Enochs, by Payton Sparks
  • Honorable Mention: A Box of Memories, by Joselyn Maria Lopez

One-Act Play/Drama

  • 1st Place: A Primer on Kimmerian Witchcraft, by Francis Wiget
  • 2nd Place: Shadow Valley, by Sterling O’Ray

Traveler Deadline Approaching

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The deadline to submit your creative work to The Traveler, GCC’s Arts & Literary Journal, is quickly approaching. Submit your stories, poems, creative essays, and plays by Sunday, December 5th to be considered for publication.

Some reminders:

  • You can submit directly on our website here.
  • If you have any trouble with the form, you can email your submissions directly to jeffrey.baker@gccaz.edu.
  • You can submit up to 5 poems, 3 short stories, 3 creative essays, and 3 plays/scripts per year.
  • Your submission documents should not list your name anywhere, so be sure to scrub it from headers and bylines.
  • Submitting to the Traveler won’t interfere with your Artists of Promise submissions or future plans to publish your work at national journals with larger circulation.

Traveler Literary Selections for 2019-2020

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After two months of reading and deliberation, we are ready to announce the selections for Issue #53 of the Traveler, GCC’s Arts & Literary Magazine. Thank you to our student and community readers, and to our faculty judges. Thank you to everyone who submitted their creative work and who made these selections so difficult.With over 100 submissions, the process was highly competitive. We hope that those who were not selected this time around will submit again when he Traveler reopens for submissions in Fall.

The authors and stories listed below will be published in the new issue, due out in April 2020. We will also have a celebratory reading on March 18th, open to the public, where the authors can read their winning work.

Fiction

  • 1st Place: “Symbology” by Malka Daskal
  • 2nd Place: “Alone” by Shannon Fernando
  • 3rd Place: “Antimatter” by Malka Daskal
  • Honorable Mention: “Heart of Ice” by Dawn Gibbs

Creative Nonfiction

  • 1st Place: “Length of a Moment” by Taylor Boucher
  • 2nd Place: “The Third Generation” by Malka Daskal
  • 3rd Place: “A Tuesday Morning Apocalypse” by Taylor Boucher
  • Honorable Mention: “Worthless” by Dawn Gibbs

Poetry

  • 1st Place: “A Decade of Yesterdays” by Bette Griffen
  • 2nd Place: “Double-Edged” by Shannon Fernando
  • 3rd Place: “Stormy Love” by Angel Fletcher
  • Honorable Mention: “Timeless” by Cynthia Herda

One-Act Play/Drama

  • 1st Place: “Sugar Script” by Jacob Nguyen

Reminder: Be Funny, Make Money (March 6th)

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We are just a few days away from our Humorous Poetry Contest and our celebratory reading for the 2018-2019 Traveler winners. A few of our literary winners from this year’s Traveler will lead off the night, sharing their winning work. Afterwards, participants in the Humorous Poetry Contest will read/perform their funniest, most creative poetry, making us laugh and smile and snort.

Come to compete, come to listen, come to support this great opportunity for the GCC writing community!

  • What: Humorous Poetry Contest (The Randy Smith Award for Humorous Poetry)
  • When: Wednesday, March 6th from 7 to 9PM
  • Where: GCC Main Campus, in SU-104 (A, B, C)
  • Why: First place wins $100

This event is free and open to the public, but contest participants must be GCC students. We do not restrict the subjects of creative works.

Traveler Winners for 2018-2019

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It is with great pleasure that we announce the literary selections for the 2018-2019 issue of Traveler, GCC’s Arts & Literary Magazine. From roughly 100 submissions, the following pieces have been selected for publication:

Creative Nonfiction

  • First Place: Charlie Bickel for “Creosote”
  • Second Place: Jordan Johnson for “Free Tea Day”
  • Third Place: Persephone Pilibossian for “The Price of Fitness”

Fiction

  • First Place: Malka Daskal for “Princes in All the Earth”
  • Second Place: Mindee Bahr for “Without Child”
  • Third Place: Raushan Mateen for “The Library of Peace”
  • Honorable Mention: Dawn Gibbs for “Hatching Day”
  • Honorable Mention: Lynne MacVean for “Memorette Gum”

Poetry

  • First Place: Persephone Pilibossian for “Reaching”
  • Second Place: Persephone Pilibossian for “What is Due”
  • Third Place: Jordan Johnson for “Mile Marker Eleven”
  • Honorable Mention: Cynthia Herda for “Got Faith?”
  • Honorable Mention: Cynthia Herda for “Imagine the Wind”

Our student staff, judges, and coordinator would like to express what an honor it has been to read all of the submissions. For those that were not selected for publication this time, please know that we value the opportunity to review your work, and we hope you will submit again for our next issue. Submissions will open up once more in Fall 2019.

We hope everyone joins Traveler staff and our literary selections for a celebratory reading on March 6th, from 7 to 9PM in SU-104 (GCC Main). Our student writers will read from their winning work. Also that night we will be holding a competition for our Randy Smith Award in Humorous Poetry (read more about that here). Between our Traveler readers and our humorous poetry competitors, we hope to have a fun and rewarding celebration of the creativity here at Glendale Community College.

The 2018-2019 issue will be available in print later this Spring. Thank you to all who submitted, and congratulations, once more, to our winners.