Students have until Tuesday to submit articles or poetry for Eclectica, the BC literary magazine.

“It’s a student-run magazine,” said professor David Moton, a BC English teacher who oversees the class. “All of the selections that go into it are written or created by students. Students determine what goes in it.”

For many aspiring writers, the magazine provides practical experience in getting published, he said.

“I think that Eclectica is a great way for people to practice at that. And then it just feels good to have it in print,” said Moton.

In fact, Eclectica is looking for submissions from students right now. According to Moton, submissions like poetry, short fiction, drama, pieces of prose, personal essays and artwork, as well as photographs, drawings, paintings and photos of sculptures.

Students must be enrolled at BC to submit their work.

“One of the most difficult parts of writing professionally is to finally submit stuff and deal with it. There’s a certain set of guidelines they have to follow when they submit it, so they get used to submitting things, and get used to rejection, which is always a part of writing.

“Once (the students) sit down and select the final cut, when everything gets turned in, then they go about figuring out the publishing layout and what they want it to look like, what they want it to feel like,” said Moton.

The magazine is published a week or two before spring finals. It is available free to anybody. Moton said most years 1,000 copies are published and are distributed around campus.

“There’s usually some at the library, the English Department, and we pass them out in class,” he said.