Windfall Magazine

20/04/2016

Windfall is officially off to the printer! We hope you're all as excited to see the finished product as we are!

30/03/2016

Are you guys interested in what happened last week at the final Windfall meeting of the year? Go check out our Twitter account and read a few of the hilarious comments made during the night.

21/03/2016

Irish Author March Madness

Hey everyone, this might be something you'll enjoy. Combining competition and literature in one go. http://theodysseyonline.com/truman-state-university/irish-author-march-madness/367622

Literary giants from the Emerald Isle face off in this bookish March Madness twist.

12/02/2016

Are you looking for a way to procrastinate and Facebook just isn't doing it for you? Never fear, Windfall's got you covered. Starting in just 5 minutes, we will be live-tweeting our meeting.

05/02/2016

We will be live-tweeting our meeting for the first time tonight! Follow us to get some insight into what happens every Thursday night.

22/01/2016

Just a reminder: the meeting time for this semester changed to THURSDAYS at 8 P.M., still in Baldwin 211.

04/11/2015

Events and Contests | Windfall

The Graduate Student Reading was a great success! Thanks again to our wonderful participants and to all those that came last night. We also announced our Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest winners last night.

First place: G. Gamache
Second place: Madeleine Kuennen
Third place: Jojo Lampe

All winning entries and dishonorable mentions can be found at http://windfall.truman.edu/events/

Events and Contests Don’t Forget! The 2015 Fall Submission Deadline is Sunday, November 15th! Previous Events Fall 2015 Graduate Student Reading On November 3rd, 2015 we heard from Jamie Miller, Rachel Davis, and Josiah Rosell. Fall 2015 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest: Winners and Dishonorable Mentio…

21/09/2015

2-Day Book Sale

Don't Forget: The Pickler Memorial Library Book Sale is this week!

02/05/2015

Don't forget, today at 2 is the Release Party in the MO Chariton Room!

11/04/2015

If You have paper art, bring something to weigh it down. It's a bit breezy.

11/04/2015

Just a reminder: Bring your art to the Red Barn Park (south by the bridge) at 2pm! Windfall's PR Executive will be there by 1:30 pm if you need an extra hand with anything or want to do a sound check.

20/02/2015

One and all, today is the day! Submit your creative works in an attachment to [email protected] to be considered for a place in Truman's annual undergraduate creative magazine!

23/09/2014

Don't Forget: The Pickler Memorial Library Book Sale is TODAY and TOMORROW! Tonight is Truman night, so bring you student ID to the Alumni Room in the SUB.

04/05/2014

Windfallers! Thanks so much for making this an amazing year. Goodbye and congratulations to our seniors, and good luck to next year's staff! We had so much fun meeting everyone at the party, and hearing our contributors read their work. So, good luck with your finals and have a safe and glorious summer!

02/05/2014

Come to the windfall literary magazine release party at the aquadome right now! We have free food, free booze, and literary geniuses.

22/04/2014

Hey everyone! The new magazine is on the way, and we will be having a release party at the Aquadome at 7:30 pm on May 1st. We will be making an event on facebook soon once the contracts are signed, but we wanted to ask our facebook friends if any of you were in bands/know of bands that would like to play at our event. Message or comment with any useful information!

03/04/2014

26 Types Of English Majors

For those of you in the English/Creative Writing department, enjoy.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/dianabruk/types-of-english-majors

You probably morphed from one to another at various stages of your college career. Bonus points if you were several at once!

21/03/2014

Thank you to everyone who read and came out last night to our poetry reading! Our readers were awesome, and so was our audience. Keep on rockin', Truman State.

20/03/2014

Tomorrow night is our poetry reading! So come on out to the library cafe from 7-9 on Thursday night and hear some great original work from some of our best English and creative writing professors!

28/02/2014

How to Write YA

For anyone interested in writing YA Novels, here are some tips: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/61185-how-to-write-ya.html

Author Seth Fishman shares six tips on how to tackle a YA novel.

25/02/2014

Windfall (TrumanWindfall) on Twitter

Just a reminder that we have a twitter! Go follow us, all 20 of our followers have notified us of their loneliness.
https://twitter.com/TrumanWindfall

The latest from Windfall (). We are Truman State University's student literary magazine. Submit your art, prose, and poetry today!. Kirksville, MO

12/02/2014

SoYouWantTo/Write A S*x Scene - Television Tropes & Idioms

In honor of Valentine's Day later this week, here are some great tips for writing a sexy scene in your next novel!

So You Want To: Write A S*x Scene

07/02/2014

We are selling candygrams tomorrow in Magruder from 11-1! $3 will get a bag of chocolate and a poem of your choice hand delivered to your valentine!

02/02/2014

The deadline for submitting your prose, poetry, and artwork is February 15th. Submit to [email protected] within the next two weeks, and don't forget to stop by Magruder this coming week for candygrams!

31/01/2014

ATTN TRUMAN STUDENTS: For a fundraiser, we will be hand delivering customized candygrams on Valentines Day! Here are the deets:
We will have a table at Magruder Hall from 11 am- 1 pm next week on Wednesday Feb 5, Thursday Feb 6, and Friday Feb 7. For $3, you can create a customized message or pick an excerpt from a poem that we will attach to small bag of chocolate goodness. Give us the name and address of the recipient, and we will surprise them on Valentine's Day with your treat. You may choose whether or not you'd like to remain anonymous! So start thinking about who you're secretly admiring, and see us next week in Magruder to put a smile on someone's face on love day.

30/01/2014

12 Historic Bars Every Book Nerd Needs To Visit

If you're studying abroad, or in the states and are over 21, check out these awesome bars with literary ties!

Channel your inner literary lush by drinking where the greats drank.

21/01/2014

Our first meeting of the new year is TONIGHT. 7:00, BALDWIN 349. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE, OKAY? (I think Mark Twain said that...)

13/01/2014

Welcome back to KVegas, Trumanites. Spring submission deadline is in February, submit and get published before the end of the year!

24/12/2013

Happy Holidays from the staff of Windfall! Charles Dickens practically created the holiday tradition when he wrote A Christmas Carol, how will you impact the world with your work?

12/12/2013

We are done taking orders, thanks for eating our pizza! Good luck with the rest of your finals, and have a great winter break! Work on your writing and your art, and submit it online at www.windfall.truman.edu.

12/12/2013

The rumors are true, our pizzas taste like magic. To find out what magic tastes like, order one now to your dorm room! Here's the phone number one more time: 314-704-0282

12/12/2013

We are officially beginning the pizza delivery! For only $3 you can have your very own personal pizza. Call or text this number to order to your dorm: 314-704-0282. We have cheese, pepperoni, and meat lovers.

14/11/2013

Fall deadline is tomorrow! Quick, send in your work before you miss your chance!

16/10/2013

Graphic by Amanda Atwell.

09/10/2013

Windfall (TrumanWindfall) on Twitter

Hey, everyone!
We've made an official Twitter for Windfall. Yay!
Please follow us and all that jazz!

The latest from Windfall (). We are Truman State University's student published Literary Magazine. Submit your art, prose, and poetry today!. Kirksville, MO