The Winding Banister Review

The Winding Banister Review, the journal of ideas and creativity edited by and featuring the work of students in the Honors College, is now accepting submissions for Issue 4. Please go to: http://windingbanister.com/

In addition to our general call for submissions (essays, fiction, interviews, art work) we are looking for the following:

essays about science, Life in the Lab, etc., and discussions on ethical issues regarding scientific advancements; for example: should research about dangerous flu viruses be made available to the public? Since the WBR is geared toward the general but curious reader, a good model for essays geared toward a general readership would be Discovery Magazine or National Geographic. Please submit. We are happy to provide a link to the data portion/full paper of any science submission we accept.  Send to sciencereader@windingbanister.com.

And speaking of science, consider this: physicists in Switzerland recently confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle.” The WBR would like your thoughts regarding this discovery in terms of specific disciplines and frames, namely those of the living-learning programs in the Honors College:  Honors Humanities, Digital Cultures and Communities, Integrated Life Sciences, Gemstone, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and University Honors. How do you see this discovery impacting your discipline, and is that impact a positive or negative one? Creative and radical thinking welcomed! For information on the discovery, here’s the National Science Foundation the press release: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?org=NSF&cntn_id=124704&preview=false

Some other “hot topics”:

GIRLS.  The new HBO series Girls, which debuted this summer, is making waves not only in the 20-something demographic it’s dramatizing but in the wider culture, too.  What does this series say about life after college, sex and job hunting, and do you see it mirroring your world, or is it just “another show”?  We would like to hear from both men and women about this show and the issues it raises.

2012 is an election year:  are you going to vote? For the first time? If not why not? What does this election mean to you and to your generation?  We welcome all politic commentary, but please keep it within our word count (2,500 max).

We want reviews of cultural events, new recordings, books, films, trends.  Let’s face it:  we want everything, as long as it’s good. Our goal is to consider submissions from all of the programs in the Honors College.  Submit!!!

We accept submissions year-round, and we’d love to consider yours.  Hope you had a great summer and here’s to a good fall semester.

Samantha Suplee, Editor

The Winding Banister Review

editor@windingbanister.com