2023 FUSE Schedule

Becky Tuch is a fiction and nonfiction writer based in Philadelphia, PA. She has been honored with awards and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, The Somerville, MA Arts Council, Moment Magazine, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including Gulf Coast, Post Road, Salt Hill, Tikkun Magazine and Best of the Net. She is the Founding Editor of The Review Review, and now writes The Lit Mag News, a newsletter dedicated to lit mag publishing. Find her at BeckyTuch.com.

Drop in any time to learn about bookmaking and letterpress printing and make your own book!

With the unprecedented opportunity to publish across an endless number of venues online, print media is more important than ever before. There is something incredibly special and intimate in holding a physical copy of your own writing. Our campus literary journal, The Reflector, was established in 1957, and has remained an important space and community for our students, despite changing and developing in many ways over the past sixty-six years. Our submitters and production team take great pride in witnessing their work finally in print, and it helps connect them to a creative community which is further fostered in our club. We will be examining some of the ways that our journal has been shaped by changes in society and culture throughout the years, and how we have continually adapted in order to better serve our students and their ability to share their voices on our campus.

Three poets, former undergraduate lit mag editors, discuss how their current work supports literary magazines. In addition, they will discuss the successes and challenges they've encountered in preserving these works for future writers, readers, and scholars.

SUNY Fredonia’s undergraduate literary magazine, The Trident, began in 2003-04 as a slim, staple-bound magazine of student writing. In its most recent issues, the magazine has bloomed to a longer print issue, with dedicated digital content on the web and on social media. Each issue is created by student editors, designers, marketers, and managing editors who balance fidelity to the past with visions for the future. Three student editors from the latest issue, will talk about how The Trident’s past affects its present, and how The Trident, and other undergraduate magazines, can continue to innovate and grow. Editors will reflect on what they’ve learned from archiving The Trident, designing a digital companion to the issue, editing content in line with an editorial vision, and promoting the issue via social media, with an introduction and overview by faculty advisor Michael Sheehan.

In this workshop, the three panelists will briefly discuss their writing on political topics and then offer prompts to generate writing that reverberates with the urgent issues and concerns of our times: gun violence, police brutality, racism, reproductive freedom, planetary destruction. In a time when our media outlets are perceived as–or indeed are–biased and audience is highly polarized, might literary and visual art offer a bridge, a way into talking about what matters in our lives and the world beyond? Come create new work to share at the Open Mic!

Share your poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction at the open mic night! Look for the sign up sheet at Registration and the Journal Showcase!

AI is a controversial technology which mines original works to teach itself how to mimic human writing. Using it in new creative works takes careful ethical consideration. We will discuss the ethics of AI in journal submissions as well as how editorial policies can adapt to the various levels of AI contribution in submissions.

Come learn more about FUSE and how you can be a part of it!