The Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences will host a launch party to debut volume 14 of the student-run magazine, “Digressions,” on April 3 in the Performance and Visual Arts wing of the Don Taft University Center at 5 p.m.
Digressions is NSU’s literary magazine and contains a collection of student works such as poetry, short stories, photography and other art pieces.
Emily Harrington, “Digressions” layout manager, said that this volume of “Digressions” will consist of eight photography pieces, one art piece, and four short stories.
Harrington said, “In the past couple of years, we have refined our style and how we want to do things…This year feels like we are meshing our experience together and refining everything, and I’m excited for the overall picture.”
Each year the “Digressions” team picks a theme for the volume. This year’s theme is “The Human Condition.”
Harrington said, “It involves all the joy and pain and struggles of being a person and existing. We felt that the works chosen captured the human condition as it exists in this time and society. We have a variety of pieces, but they all come together with the theme.”
Molly Scanlon, assistant professor of writing communication in the College of Art, Humanities and Social Sciences and adviser for “Digressions,” said that the magazine is kept confidential until the launch party, and no one on staff sees the finished product, excluding the layout manager and the editor-in-chief.
“Everyone is encouraged to join the event. We will have light refreshments and the winners of both the staff picks and the faculty awards, which is for the undergraduate student symposium, will be announced at the launch,” said Scanlon. “It is a really cool unveiling of the magazine, but also a nice recognition of the staff and the work that they’ve done, and the really exemplary artists that we have included in the magazine.”
Harrington said that for her, “Digressions” is an outlet that allows her to connect with her artistic side.
Harrington said, “I am an environmental science major and I’ve got a marine biology and leadership minor, so this is really my only outlet for that passion for art that I have. My favorite part is getting to interact with all the different art pieces and getting inspired in that realm of my life in a new way. This is also the first year I have work published in it, too. “
Scanlon said that that she is excited to see the students react to their own work.
Scanlon said, “I am excited to see the staff react to the launch, to take pride in their work, and to actually be able to hold something in their hands that they can say that they’ve made and contributed to and worked together to make happen.”
For more information about “Digressions” or the launch party, contact Nicole Chavannes at nc805@nova.edu.
