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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!