Welcome to the official page for The Crossings Literary Magazine of Bethel University! Submissions are accepted at all times. Watch for updates.
The Crossings Literary Magazine provides a venue for Bethel students, faculty, and staff to publish their written works.
03/10/2022
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The 100-word Microfiction Challenge — nycmidnight The 100-word Microfiction Challenge is an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to create very short stories based on genre, action, and word assignments in just 24 hours.
05/08/2020
Read the final installment of Alayna Wort's "One woman's road to holistic reconciliation." "Right or Easy" is up now on The Crossings!
Right or Easy By Alayna Wort In Nadine Gordimer’s book, “A Burger’s Daughter” the reader follows the story of a girl growing up in apartheid South Africa, discovering who she is apart from her family. This journ…
05/07/2020
Alayna Wort, a Bethel student who studied abroad in South Africa last semester, shares her thoughts on Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his book "No Future Without Forgiveness" in her article "But What About Forgiveness?" up now on our website!
But What About Forgiveness? By Alayna Wort In 1995, Archbishop Desmond Tutu was appointed commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) by the then recently elected President Nelson Mandela. The point of this …
05/04/2020
🎉🎉Congratulations to Autumn Owens for winning the writing prompt contest and receiving the Barnes and Noble gift card!! 🎉🎉
05/01/2020
Read about Brianne Larson's experience with the current pandemic, and how she is trying to view this time as a gift. "An Unlikely Gift" is up now on The Crossings!
An Unlikely Gift By Brianne Larson Seven weeks ago I was waking up at 6 am, pulling my tired, yet excited body out of bed and pouring a massive cup of coffee into a to-go mug that would be chugged during my 15-minu…
05/01/2020
Read Mads Gonzales's moving personal essay on mental illness and bipolar disorder. "On Being 'Sick'" is up now on The Crossings website!
On Being “Sick” By Mads Gonzales Sickness can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Some might see it as a cough or vomit in a bowl, or some would venture to describe it as broken bones or a…
04/30/2020
Looking for some new poetry? Check out our website at thecrossingsjournal.org or read "Da Capo Al Fine" by Devin Rogers at the link below:
http://thecrossingsjournal.org/2020/04/30/da-capo-al-fine/
Da Capo Al Fine By Devin Rogers In the midst of smiling faces and warm embraces, The cleaning of lockers and preparations for summer, I sat with you, touched you, and held you. You were my everything for four year…
04/29/2020
New poetry, up now on The Crossings! Read "Easter 2019" by Emily Oliver at the link below:
Easter 2019 By Emily Oliver At the dinner table Grandma announces she will be donating her body to science. A piece of stale bread crumbles from her mouth like a clod of dirt onto an empty grave. In a cold res…
04/29/2020
Read " " by Brandon Barnes, up now on our website!
#Vampire By Brandon Barnes In the light we die Darkness is our only love So, what are we then?
04/28/2020
Ready to dig into some poetry? "Leaky Sink" by Stephanie Hickner is up now on our website!
Leaky Sink By Stephanie Hickner Sandra Ray’s heartbeat is less a melody than a shallow vibration. The screws meant to hole her steady Spun down her drain toward nowhere at all. To battle miseries and ecstasie…
04/27/2020
The "Lovers Drifting" Poetry Collection by Sumer Schindler is up now on The Crossings. Read it now at the link below!
Lovers Drifting Collection By Sumer Schindler An Encounter to Wonder A path of life, a pattern, a line, A schedule crossed and intertwined with mine— Purpose unborn except that of time, A glance, a step, we remain bl…
04/27/2020
Read "Love" by Myka Ellenwood, up now on The Crossings!
Love By Myka Ellenwood A dangerous four-letter word Has many uses, Manipulation Appreciation, infatuation, adoration Songs and poems Praise and vilify Humans desire it No matter the cost Exhilarating an…