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Sunday, November 15, 2020

Submit Your Work to WIT, Villanova's Multilingual Literary Journal

WIT, an annual multilingual literary journal for Villanova students, is inviting students to submit their work for publication in its 2021 issue. WIT, which stands for Writing in Tongues, was firspublished in the spring 2018 semester in the Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies, focusing on GIS languages: Arabic, Chinese, Irish, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. The editors accept poems or very short creative prose compositions, original or in translation, along with artwork in any medium (drawing, painting, photograph, computer graphics etc).

Copies of previous issues of WIT are available for the curious at the GIS office (Garey 36), through several faculty members teaching GIS languages; at Falvey Library, and in PDF form through Arabic Instructor Barbara Romaine, who will send you the files if you contact her at barbara.romaine@villanova.edu. Selected compositions will be published bilingually (that is, in your language of study with facing English translation). The deadline for submissions is February 19, 2021.