Launch party for the latest edition of The Open Field on April 4

English undergraduate students Paige McHatten and Julia Hills, the student editors of The University of Maine’s undergraduate literary magazine The Open Field, are hosting a launch party for the 2024 installment of the publication with other editors and contributors at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 4 in the Writing Center, room 402 of Neville Hall.

The Open Field is devoted to publishing poetry, prose, mixed-genre writing and visual art by the undergraduate community at UMaine. The magazine is run by a rotating group of English students in the creative writing concentration, and they make all of the aesthetic and editorial decisions.