TIFTON — The Pegasus Literary Magazine, publishing yearly at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College for more than 40 years, is getting a face lift. 

The Pegasus is looking for submissions from writers and artists from Georgia, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Middle to High school students, college students, college faculty, and alumni can submit their work to the Pegasus website. The magazine is encouraging people to submit poetry, short stories, art, photography, a variety of non-fictional writing, and long form journalism.

“I want to emphasize we are really not out to censor anyone,” said ABAC Professor Dr. Rachel Price. “I want to emphasize that I think sometimes art and literature deals with controversial topics and in fact that’s a good thing.”

Pegasus Magazine does not have a particular agenda and a wide variety of viewpoints are welcome.

ABAC student Drayton Holmes is acting as the Editor and Chief of the Pegasus Magazine. “I look forward to seeing our submissions, and we are going to work towards having a page for everyone to turn to in our magazine” said ABAC student Drayton Holmes, who is acting as editor-in-chief of the Pegasus Magazine.

Submissions are due by Feb. 21, no later than midnight. Writers and artists interested in submitting need to create an account on the Pegasus website.

All submissions require a cover letter in order to be reviewed.

Price is revitalizing the Pegasus Magazine which gives students work experience and hands-on learning in the process of publishing a magazine.

ABAC is purchasing a binding machine for the Pegasus staff. Instead of going through another company to print their books, the Pegasus will be printed on campus, reducing printing costs to only the purchase of paper and ink.

Price is teaching a 3000-level English class called the Publishing Process for Spring semester. The students in the class are acting as the magazine staff, to ensure the magazine is published for another year. Each student is holding a staff position, and will be specifically assigned to different tasks to publish the magazine.

For readers who are interested in picking up a copy of the magazine when it comes out in April, Price will be talking with local businesses about distributing copies out at stores and restaurants. Copies can also be picked at the ABAC Book Store.

Traditionally the Pegasus has been free, but the staff is discussing selling the copies for a nominal fee to help recover printing fees.

More information: http://pegasusliterarymagazine.weebly.com/index.html