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The Nocturnal Literary Review The Nocturnal Literary Review is the magazine for fiction, nonfiction and poetry by Plan II Honors s

We at The Nocturnal have some kinks to iron out, but we also have a love of poetry and prose that is thoughtful, engaging, and beautifully written. We suspect that we'll find some hidden under the beds of Plan II students. Our inaugural editorial board and assistant readers are currently accepting submissions for The Nocturnal's first issue. Please use our online submissions manager (www.thenoctur

nal.submittable.com) to send us your work and visit our website for regular updates and lively literary conversation.

think your double major's rough?
06/11/2019

think your double major's rough?

24/09/2019

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN for The Nocturnal Literary Review
with CASH PRIZES

* poetry * nonfiction * short stories

Submit to your Plan II literary magazine by emailing [email protected]*

Don't forget about our Featured Nonfiction Selection! The Nocturnal wants to especially support and showcase nonfiction work from Plan II courses.

Cash prizes will be awarded to one student per grade for a piece of nonfiction from a Plan II class.

$50 for freshies and sophomores
$75 for juniors
$100 for seniors

Remember, this is your magazine.

*please include your name as in the UT directory, your year, and other majors.

cause for real
28/08/2019

cause for real

***CLOSED FOR 2019***Now recruiting staff for the official Plan II literary journal! We have positions in External Commu...
28/08/2019

***CLOSED FOR 2019***

Now recruiting staff for the official Plan II literary journal!

We have positions in External Communications, Readers, and Design. If you have any interest in literature, making memes? fundraising, or getting to know your Plan II community, fill out this survey:

https://forms.gle/tjcSw2gbFpMWv3aU9

email [email protected] for any questions

Create a new survey on your own or with others at the same time. Choose from a variety of survey types and analyze results in Google Forms. Free from Google.

14/05/2019

Get your copy of The Nocturnal Literary Review before you leave for the summer!

08/05/2019

This is the FIRST year we have print issues available to everyone.
Get a copy in the Plan II office today!

03/05/2019

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST

03/05/2019

~community~

01/05/2019

Get your copy of Vol. 5 today!

26/04/2019

Volume 5 now for sale in the Plan II office!
$12 venmo or cash

25/04/2019

VOL. 5 COMING TO A PLAN II OFFICE NEAR YOU
THIS FRIDAY

buy a print issue for $12 cash or venmo

25/04/2019

Congratulations to Abigail Partridge for winning The Nocturnal Literary Review Freshmen Featured Nonfiction Selection award! Her essay "The Oceanic Purge" criticizes unethical fishing practices and calls for global activism to increase regulation and transparency.

Read "Oceanic Purge" in Volume 5 of The Nocturnal, coming this Friday, and enjoy these closing lines from Partridge's work.

"Raising awareness of unethical fishing practices still stands as a viable solution to combat IUU fishing ... Otherwise, if we acquiesce, the health of our planet and our very lives are at state."

25/04/2019

Congratulations to Austin Hanna for winning The Nocturnal Literary Review Review Senior Featured Nonfiction Selection award! His excerpts from "For Zoë" come from Dr. MacKay's TC 358 class Life-Writing: Reading, theory, practice.

Read "For Zoë" in Volume 5 of The Nocturnal, coming this Friday, and enjoy these closing lines from Hanna's piece.

"Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me. Who knew cappuccinos could be holy? Perhaps I should have known. Amen."

24/04/2019

Congratulations to Quinn Collins for winning the Junior Featured Nonfiction Selection award! His essay "The Genius in the Black Mirror" compares the popular sci-fi Netflix series with Ralph W Emerson's essays and Henry D Thoreau's "Life in the Woods."

Read "The Genius" in Volume 5 of The Nocturnal, coming this Friday, and enjoy these closing lines from Collins' piece.

"Ultimately, all of this is not to say that one should settle in an untouched corner of the world, free from the grasp of technology ... The point is not to actively resist technology, but to ensure that one does not relinquish control to it. ... The only constant one has in life is one’s genius."

24/04/2019

Congratulations to Ilisa Norman for winning The Nocturnal Literary Review Sophomore Featured Nonfiction Selection award! Her essay "Deriving Meaning from the Seemingly Absurd" relates Samuel Beckett's play "Not I" to Joan Mitchell's abstract painting "Rock Bottom."

Read "Deriving Meaning" in Volume 5 of The Nocturnal, coming this Friday, and enjoy this closing line from Norman's piece.

"People strive to mask the imperfections, the daunting, the terrifying, searching to cover it up, hiding it through the immense dissociations they pile on top of it. Nonetheless, the blue abyss continues."

23/04/2019

This Friday.
VOLUME V coming to a Plan II office near you

11/04/2019
Classic Poems Modified for Climate Change

need an idea for next year's submission cycle?

may i suggest "classic poems modified for my growing sense of dread about my thesis"

“Approach of Winter” by William Carlos Williams The half-stripped trees struck by a wind together, bending all, snapping before the power of… thund...

15/02/2019
Featured Submission

Thank you to everyone who submitted this year.

Everyone else, keep an eye out this May for the print edition! Until then, have a BEEutiful semester, and please enjoy an early staff favorite, sent in by an anonymous student.

Unfortunately, we are not able to publish this submission due to questions of plagiarism, but it truly is something to beehold.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b3qPF-eisbQUBsZkMZJnqdxVvqs9tnI1eP-2v17vQ24/edit?usp=sharing

According to all known laws of interdisciplinary studies, there is no way a Plan II student should be able to drink LaCroix. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The Plan II student, of course, reads Infinite Jest anyway because Plan II students don't care w...

14/02/2019

please send us your poetry, fiction, nonfiction and valentine's cards by TONIGHT! [email protected]

also please enjoy these plan ii-themed cards for those of y'all who aren't going to die alone like me

13/02/2019

If you plan2 submit to The Nocturnal, our submission deadline is TOMORROW.

Whether it's poetry, prose, or non fiction, what we want want to see your work (from in and outside of the classroom.)

Visit The Nocturnal page or website with any questions and submit your writing to [email protected]

12/02/2019

No Valentine's Day plans? We got your back.

Roses die, stuffed teddies are creepy, chocolate is--well, chocolate is alright.

But what better way to immortalize that unrequited crush on your TA than getting a sonnet or two published in The Nocturnal?Or a short story about your cute meet?

*we will also accept Galantine's Day resolutions, disparaging odes to singleness, and breakup raps
[email protected]

08/02/2019

Sudden change in the weather get your creative juices flowing? Send over what you wrote to [email protected] !! Less than a week left!
POETRY * SHORT STORIES * NON FICTION

06/02/2019
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do

flex your writing muscles on your LAH friends by submitting to the nocturnal

WRITE EVERY DAY Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Think...

04/02/2019

this was a poor decision, but you know what isn’t? submitting to the nocturnal!

31/01/2019
Bi***es With Money

Dear Finestorbeats,
Thank you for this musical submission. Although we are only accepting written submissions (poetry, short stories, nonfiction, etc), we thought this was too great to keep to ourselves. We hope you don't mind us sharing your work with the Facebook community. It was a pleasure hearing from you. In the future, do remember, that we accept ALL kinds of WRITTEN work to The Nocturnal.
Cheers,
The Nocturnal Staff

Producer Email: [email protected] Follow Me On Instagram/Twitter: Finestorbeats

26/01/2019

It's on the syllabus.

25/01/2019

Got any valentines poems? Lost love letters under your bed? Vengeful sonnets?

Well, The Nocturnal wants see them! Maybe even publish? Send it all over to [email protected]

(apologies for any painful memories)

23/01/2019

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!
send to [email protected] by February 14
we're looking for...
poetry
short stories
long stories
translations
personal narratives
plays
instagram bios
transcription of your grandmother's life story
a collection of recycled syllabi
academic article on bees
technical writing
logical proofs
a defense of prune juice
failed resume templates
and non fiction.

remember, this is your magazine.

21/01/2019

New semester, new you, so cut the excuses. submit something to The Nocturnal, the plan ii literary magazine.
POETRY * SHORT STORIES * NONFICTION
[email protected]

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The Nocturnal Literary Review

This is your magazine, a place for poetry, non fiction, and fiction writing from Plan II students, published by Plan II students.

We were founded in 2013 by a group of Plan II students who wanted to establish a unique platform to showcase our community’s beautifully diverse collection of life experiences. Our purpose is to give the students, faculty, and alumni of Plan II a public space, a modern forum, for needed conversation, intellectual adventure, and wild creativity.

Beyond the needed scaffolding of world literature, philosophy, and the dreaded thesis, Plan II is built of students—students with intense curiosity. The Nocturnal maintains the breadth and depth of Plan II student voices in its publishing of literature arts and featured works.