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Traveler Selections for 2024-2025

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The Traveler reading staff and judges have made their selections for Fall 2024 to Spring 2025! Thank you to everyone who submitted their fiction, poetry, nonfiction, scripts, and drama. Please consider submitting again in Fall 2025.

Look for physical copies of the Traveler Arts & Literary Journal later this spring!

Fiction

  • 1st Place: The Assassin, by Bryannah Stevens
  • 2nd Place: Inarticulation, by Ashley Lowell
  • 3rd Place: Richard Price, by Mary Gross
  • Honorable Mention: A Snark Page for Dead Pets, by Mary Gross

Creative Nonfiction

  • 1st Place: Five Things You Can See, One Thing I Can’t Say, by Ashley Lowell
  • 2nd Place: My Horror Story with a Happy Ending, by Haley Ybarra
  • 3rd Place: A Mirror of a Broken Seashell, by Angel Marie Arguello

Poetry

  • 1st Place: Now We Know, by Ruth Claire Brown
  • 2nd Place: One Time I Rode My Bike at Night, by Ruth Claire Brown
  • 3rd Place: My Wife and I Discuss Death While Eating Popcorn on a Tuesday Night and This is Just What We Do Now, by Ruth Claire Brown
  • Honorable Mention: I Can’t Do This Anymore, by Adrian Castillo

One-Act Play/Drama

  • 1st Place: Silent War, by Angel Marie Arguello

Traveler Deadline Extended!

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We’re still accepting Traveler submissions. The new deadline is Friday, December 13th. As you wind down your semester, please consider submitting your creative works of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and plays/screenplays! Submit your work here: https://gccazcrw.com/traveler/submissions/

Traveler & Artists of Promise Open for Submissions!

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Both GCC’s The Traveler, Arts & Literary Journal, and the Maricopa Community Colleges’ Artists of Promise writing contests are accepting submissions for Fall 2024. The Traveler accepts submissions from Glendale Community College students only, whereas the Artists of Promise accepts submissions from any for-credit student at one of the MCCCD colleges.

Traveler Selections!

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We’ve made our final literary selections for the 2023-2024 issue of Traveler. Thank you to everyone who submitted, everyone who read, and everyone who judged. We are grateful to have such wonderful people involved.

Congratulations to all of our selections for their fabulous work.

Fiction

  • 1st Place: Forty-Two Children, by Patrick McCarthy
  • 2nd Place: The Confusing First Time, by Lucas Price
  • 3rd Place: Hold the Anchovies, Please, by Olin Reams
  • Honorable Mention: Too Much Exposition!, by Lucas Price

Creative Nonfiction

  • 1st Place: Lively Lifelessness, by Lucas Price
  • 2nd Place: When Home Is Home, by Edward Howard Freese

Poetry

  • 1st Place: Masked, by Patrick McCarthy
  • 2nd Place: Temporary, by Patrick McCarthy
  • 3rd Place: And After All, by Amal Emily Zahroon
  • Honorable Mention: There Are No Mandatory Minimums Here, by Edward Howard Freese
  • Honorable Mention: Girls Turn to Monsters, by Amal Emily Zahroon

One-Act Play/Drama

  • 1st Place: Messages of Atonement, by Sarah Dahdal
  • 2nd Place: Chinchilla, by Adrian Castillo
  • 3rd Place: Randall’s Birthday, by Brigham Rhett Larson

Traveler & Artists of Promise Deadlines Extended!

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The powers that be–somewhere, out there–have extended the deadlines to both student writing competitions! The new deadline for both contests is Friday, December 8th.

Give us your poetry, your fiction, your creative nonfiction, and your screen/stage-plays!

  • The Traveler Arts & Literary Journal is open to all active GCC students. Submit your work here!
  • The Artists of Promise competition is open to all active students in any of the Maricopa Community Colleges. Submit your work here!

Artists of Promise Literary Selections for 2022-2023

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FICTION

First Place

  • Constantine Cotton
  • Glendale Community College
  • “The Long Walk”

Second Place

  • Kevin Flanagan
  • Phoenix College
  • “Diane Remained”

Third Place

  • Terri Boaz
  • Scottsdale Community College
  • “In the Mirror”

POETRY

First Place

  • Ella Sexton
  • Paradise Valley Community College
  • “Downsizing”

Second Place

  • Persephone Pilibossian
  • Rio Salado College
  • “Border Clash”

Third Place

  • Kira Caspers
  • Scottsdale Community College
  • “the host”

ESSAY

First Place

  • Alex Dodt
  • Mesa Community College
  • “If You are a Writer and Grieving”

Second Place

  • Patrick McCarthy
  • Glendale Community College
  • “First Drink”

Third Place

  • Lillian Titus
  • Glendale Community College
  • “Problems as a Straight Woman Now With Solutions!”

ONE-ACT PLAY/SCREENPLAY

First Place

  • Connor Blaylock
  • Chandler-Gilbert Community College
  • “Fortune”

Second Place

  • Jasper Nicholson
  • Rio Salado College
  • “Flower Garden”

Third Place

  • Kevin Flanagan
  • Phoenix College
  • “The Master Thief”

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

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.