We made it to October, and along the way we picked up a whole bunch of new cool events and contests: Harvest Moon Cafe: come out for Mischief Night (Oct. 31st) and join Volition and WGMU for a night of scary stories and live music by The Ash Lovelies and Star FK Radium, not to mention a trip up at the astronomy tower to check out the moon. Check out the Events page for all the info. Scary Story Contest: Final submissions are due the 26th and the winner will be announced at the Harvest Moon Cafe, not to mention receive $100.  Check out the Contest for more info. Cover…

Hi everyone, We hope you have had a good summer! The Fall 2012 deadline is November 1st, 2012. For submission rules, please visit the “Submit” web page. Best wishes, The Volition Staff

  Volition is excited to celebrate National Poetry Month! Join the event on Facebook and learn more about the Volition Challenge. There will be prizes for participating in the Volition Challenge!  

If you haven’t heard by now Volition is teaming up with WGMU for our first ever lyric competition, not only will the song writer get a chance to perform their work on WGMU and get their lyrics printed in Volition but they will also receive a free Kindle from the Offices of Student Media, so get your chords in shape and submit to wgmuvolitioncontest@gmail.com!

So now that the 80 degree weather has hit we here at Volition are working hard to get the magazine ready to publish all of your work.  Again, if you are like most of us here, your wonderful work is sitting on your desk, awaiting your final edit because you keep putting it off and want to allow your thoughts to ferment. Well DON’T let the ferment TOO long.  The deadline is April 4th, a mere two weeks away!  And remember, even fine wine, if left fermenting too long turns to vinegar.  So don’t let your amazing work go sour and send it into us! We are also anouncing a…

Thank you everyone who came out to Open Mic Night, you all made it a huge success.  We hope to host a Slam Poetry/Open Mic Night in early May where you will also be able to pick up this semesters Volition Magazines!  We hope you all come out again to share your amazing poetry, music and prose with us!  If you want to check out some photos from open mic night you can look under the ‘Open Mic Night’ Tab to your right. Remember that April 4th is coming up quickly so send is your submissions by then!

As the semester progresses we hope that all of you are putting aside your best work to send to us by April 4th, 2012!  In the meantime we have planned an Open Mic Night on March 5th, 2012  in the JC BISTRO to showcase poets, short story writers and musicians.  We will also be announcing and awarding our cover contest winner during the Open Mic Night. Come join us from March 5th, 2012  7-9 pm for free food and a night of literary zest in the JC BISTRO!  Bring yourself, your friends, random strangers if you’re brave and any poems short stories (500 words or less) and/or original music you…

Hi everyone, We hope you had a wonderful winter break! At Volition, we are excited about the spring semester. And what better way to kick off the first week of the semester by receiving the longingly anticipated Fall 2011 magazine! Currently, You can pick up your copy of the Fall 2011 magazine at the following locations: The Johnson Center (JC) in the wooden bins The Student Media office in SUB II (THE HUB) at the Volition cubicle Starbucks (Northern Neck) SUB I Be sure to pick up your copy! Volition has plenty of planning to do this semester! Here are  some of our current projects: Cover Contest ( For more…