Gallery: A Literary & Arts Magazine at UTRGV

27/10/2023

All UTRGV students are invited to participate in this open mic co-hosted by the Unfolded poetry project and our department tomorrow evening! The event is on campus from 7pm-10pm in the Borderlands Room, in the Education Complex, EEDUC 3.204 (third floor). Here is a link to the campus map (it’s #39:https://www.utrgv.edu/_files/documents/admissions/visit/utrgv-edinburg-map.pdf

If you’re a prose writer, short-short prose works are welcome too, especially if you keep your reading presentation brief.

As the Unfolded flyer below states, costumes are welcome but not necessary.

For more information or to request accommodation’s please contact event co-host Nathan Phillip at [email protected]

17/08/2023

Fresh copies at the Grid in Brownsville and over im front of the bookstore.

10/08/2023

20/07/2023

The new issue of Gallery 2023 is now available and can be picked up in Edinburg at ELABS Lobby (liberal arts south) around the corner from the art gallery there. Coming soon to the annex and the Brownsville campus.

05/07/2023

Surprise Vaqueros! We have a special event planned in order to welcome and reveal our newest volume of Gallery!

We hope you're able to join us to celebrate the hard work that the writers, artists and magazine staff put into this year's issue. See you soon! 🎉

16/06/2023

We hope you're having a great summer so far, Vaqueros!! Thank you to all who submitted their work for consideration by Gallery Magazine. The selection process is complete, and all accepted contributors have been sent an email.

The time for the big reveal is almost here!! Stay tuned to find out what we have in store for our newest volume!

27/04/2023

Today's the day! We hope to see you there!

We hope you can join us next week for a special poetry reading! We're beyond excited to be including some selected pieces from the upcoming Gallery 2023 issue, so be sure to save the date!

20/04/2023

We hope you can join us next week for a special poetry reading! We're beyond excited to be including some selected pieces from the upcoming Gallery 2023 issue, so be sure to save the date!

01/04/2023

The Valley International Poetry Festival is coming up starting April 20th. The folks there always are good about including a college student reading including UTRGV students. If you are a student interested in reading this year, drop your name in the comments. This video is of the 2020 VIPF that was online. Enjoy.

UTRGV's graduate and undergraduate creative writing students submitted videos of their poetry and short prose readings for the Valley International Poetry Festival 2020 student open mic. Readers include José Luján, Calyspo Kane, J. Villanueva, Nataly Salazar, Joaquin Castillo, Ana Chapa, and Stefan Peña. Compiled by Emmy Pérez, a volunteer host of the VIPF student open mic for over a decade, the video reflects a portion of the student creative writing community coming together online to join with the larger Valley literary community for the fest during this time of shelter-at-home, April 2020.

31/03/2023

This is it, Vaqueros! Make sure to get your works in by 11:59 tonight!!

28/03/2023

The deadline is almost here! Best of luck Vaqueros!! Be sure to submit by 03/31/23 at https://gallery.submittable.com/submit .

25/03/2023

UTRGV Student Media and Gallery: A Literary & Arts Magazine at UTRGV won 54 on-site and previously published/broadcast awards at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Convention, including its second Director's Trophy in university history!

We are so proud of our students and the advisers who help guide them!

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25/03/2023

Attention writers, poets, artists, photographers and creatives of UTRGV!! There is less than a week to share your craft with us! Make sure to get those submissions in by March 31st at https://gallery.submittable.com/submit . 🤎📁

21/03/2023

Happy Spring! There are 10 days left to get those submissions in!

Reminder that we are looking for a variety of work from several creative categories including:
- poetry
- essays
- 10 min. plays
- nonfiction & fiction prose
- comics
- art & photography!

Turn in by March 31st at https://gallery.submittable.com/submit

We can't wait to see what everyone sends in!

Gallery at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is a magazine composed of students literature,

19/03/2023

Last day of spring break! Have a safe return to campus, and don't forget to submit to Gallery!!

18/03/2023

Calling all artists and photographers!

Gallery Magazine is accepting submissions of art in its several creative genres and mediums! Photos, paintings, comics, mixed media, sculpture photos, and more are what we're looking for!

Help us make this year's publication unique and representative of all Vaqueros! 🧡

This opportunity is open to all UTRGV students who are currently enrolled for the Spring 2023 semester.

https://gallery.submittable.com/submit

13/03/2023

What will you allow others to see through your work? 📖

We're looking for entries in various writing categories, as well as art and photography!! Submit to UTRGV's Gallery magazine by March 31st to be considered!

https://gallery.submittable.com/submit

10/03/2023

🚨Extended Deadline!🚨
Make sure to get your work in to be considered for Gallery 2023!

https://gallery.submittable.com/submit

09/03/2023

Cash prizes and publication for comics and graphic lit...

07/03/2023

07/03/2023

Great workshop opportunity to help your upcoming submission to Gallery 2023. March 9th ELABS 125 with poet and prose writer Nathan Philips. Register now!

20/10/2022

Hi all,
Please mark this event on your calendar. Two great writers, Leticia Urieta and Reben Degollado, will share from their new books. November 14th at 6 pm( Flyer says old time). It will also live stream on Facebook at the UTRGV creative writing page.
Thank you!

05/08/2022

We are stacked up at the Grid Cafe and the Bookstore in Brownsville. At ELABS lobby in Edinburg.
Thank you!

22/07/2022

Gallery 22 is ready for pickup at the ELABS lobby by the Jeffers in Edinburg. Also at the Art Annex Lobby and then by Monday 1/25 at Brownsville's Grid Cafe. Thanks to all the contributors and staff for a great issue! Stay tuned for a Launch Party celebration this fall.

20/07/2022

Writers, there are two new classes in Creative Writing this Fall semester.
#1
ENGL 3353 – Creative Writing Cross-Genre
MW 2-315 in Edinburg and Online meetings. Taught by jo reyes-boitel (currently listed as taught by Claude Haraway)

This new course will satisfy CW credits in the ENGL Major Concentration in CW.

Hybridity in creative writing has received increased attention in recent years. Why is the hybrid text gaining popularity now? What conditions have given it a wider audience and how has the definition of hybridity changed over the last decade? We will consider ways current social and societal boundaries and genre serve as points of departure for creative writing that allows for more avenues into the literary community. We will look at the role voices of marginalized communities have had in recent expansion of hybrid writing.

This cross-genre course will provide an overview of hybridity in literature, with a focus on new and recent work. Through some classic texts, however, we will discover that hybrid literature is not new. We will examine genres and their characteristics, then see how these characteristics are reconfigured and blended to produce new work. Students will generate their own work through such techniques as the haibun, hermit crab, found text, video and graphic work, and flash as a starting point for our work into hybrid literature.

Required Book

Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres,

Avg cost: $17.00.

Course led by Jo Reyes jo reyes-boitel is a poet, essayist, and playwright. jo is also a q***r, mixed-Latinx parent working in community. Somehow born in Minnesota, their family calls Texas, Florida, Mexico, and Cuba home.

Recent and forthcoming publications include Huizache, OyeDrum, Scalawag Journal, The Ice Colony, Windward Review, La Voz de Esperanza, Chachalaca Review, Borderlands, The Americas Review, and Your Impossible Voice.

jo’s chapbook mouth (Neon Hemlock, 2021) addressed the struggle of working through others’ views and dominant culture’s impact on the body and the self – toward liberation.

Their first book, Michael + Josephine, a novel in verse (FlowerSong Press, 2019), reimagined St. Michael the Archangel as a q***r woman who begins a love relationship with Josephine, a disaster relief worker.

#2
We also offer a new bilingual section of Intro to Creative Writing ENGL 3351 on MW at 9:30-10:45 (currently listed as taught by Claude Haraway) . The course will be led by Andres Torres-Scott. Students may read and write in either English or Spanish.

Andrés Torres Scott, chilango, exfumador desde 2007.

Corre tres veces por semana tenga flojera o no, es adicto al café sin azúcar y ha vivido en México, Inglaterra y Canadá por razones confusas hasta la fecha.

Finalista en los concursos de cuento de la UNAM 1994 y 1995, en 2007 obtuvo el Premio Internacional de Novela Breve Rosario Castellanos por "Y tú, ¿qué vas a hacer con tu millón?" y el Ignacio M. Altamirano de Narrativa en 2014.

Other open sections of 3351 are listed here in this screenshot.