The Island Fox
http://hdl.handle.net/10139/749
2024-03-29T08:50:28ZThe Island Fox: Read Responsibly
http://hdl.handle.net/10139/3588
The Island Fox: Read Responsibly
Camacho, Danielle; Crowe, Nick; Diaz De Leon, Gabriel; Formanek, Justin; Fuss, Alexandra; Gahan, Emily; Heiden, Amy; Highsmith, Marissa; Hildebrandt, Brittany; Hopkins, Haley; Karbum, Tessa; Leavitt, Erin; Linton, Daniel; Lofton, J T; Marciel, Emily; Massari, Gabriella; Perez, Elliott; Primes, Victoria; Reed, Jessa; Rester, Nick; Sturgis, Sarah; Tsaur, Johnny; Verleur, Mary Sagala; Wilson, Daniel; Woerner, Alexandra
2011-04-01T00:00:00ZThe Island Fox Literary Journal
http://hdl.handle.net/10139/614
The Island Fox Literary Journal
Wilbur, Krista; Gray, Laura; Fontes, Julie; Jordan, Rachael; O'Neal, Chris; Westland, Maggie; Sullivan, Ronnie; Pasha, Kathy; Tores, Vincent; Moore, Elise; Purcell, Marissa; Hadlock-Piltz, Rachel; Morgan, George; Davis, Tamara
Wilbur, Krista; Jordan, Rachael; Hadlock-Piltz, Rachel; Gonzalez, David; Glover, Julius; Sullivan, Ronnie; Pasha, Kathy; Carswell, Sean; Chainee, Casey; Lownes, Patty; Moore, Elise; Kornfeld, Jocelyn
FORWARD: Message from Editorial Staff and Designer, Jocelyn Kornfeld
Nearly 100 submissions. That’s what the editorial staff of the Island Fox had to choose from to create this year’s journal. When we looked at the pieces collectively we realized that each of them deals, in some way with discovery whether it’s self-discovery
learning to cope with death, love, and depression, dealing with family, or becoming politically active. Each of us, as college students and human beings, can relate to all of these issues. Our hope is that as you read the Island Fox, you find something you can connect with.
The chosen pieces were submitted to our graphic designer, Jocelyn Kornfeld, who was given free range with design and layout. How you see things on the pages is all hers – she is the creative genius behind the scenes. The only caveat was that she keep the format of everything the same way it was when the pieces were originally submitted. Her task was tough: she had to see how the pieces were interconnected. The end result is this Island Fox, and we believe that it represents this year’s submissions
well.
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Whether or not you have pieces in this year’s journal, if you’re going to be here next year, make sure you submit! It’s a diffcult task to narrow down the submissions into something that will fit into just over a hundred pages. Creativity comes in all shapes and colors, so next year’s journal maybe the perfect fit for your work. And no mater what, whether you submit or not, keep on writing. Do what you love.
Make it a good one, The 2008 Island Fox Staff
2008-05-01T00:00:00ZMYUZ
http://hdl.handle.net/10139/613
MYUZ
Bauer, Joshua; Sturgis, Sarah; O'Neal, Chris; Colletti, Sean; Morgan, George; Wilbur, Krista; Parker, Sara; Kellog, Kristi; Maranan, Luis; Griffin, Kellie; Colletti, Sean; MacLaury, Guy; Piccirilli, Adam; Fontes, Julie; Dunlap, Laura
Griffin, Kellie; Morgan, George; MacLaury, Guy; Fontes, Julie; Bauer, Joshua; Maranan, Luis; Cassel, Tristan; Morgan, Carley
INTRODUCTION One of the first things we agreed to as an editorial staff was that our university‘s literary journal needed an updated title. There was nothing inherently wrong with the name Island Fox, per se, but we preferred something that might better demonstrate the joie de vivre of writing. After batting about a few names, we settled on MYUZ – a nod of appreciation to the nine daughters of Zeus – the Greek goddesses of artistic inspiration. A muse is something (or someone) every writer needs – an inspirational influence to whisper in their ear, to help lift their words and voice above the mundane.
During this past year, newspapers, television, and internet blogs have been filled with bad news – some of it terrifying. Here in Ventura County we were jolted by the huge loss of life in the Chatsworth Metrolink crash – the worst train accident in California history. We have decided to open our journal this year
with a non-fiction piece by Joshua Bauer that deals with this tragedy. Bauer begins his first person narrative with a group of friends getting together for a few games of bowling. The Metrolink disaster, which had happened just two days before, is not really on their radar. The story takes a dramatic turn when Katie, a young woman who had been quiet all evening, suddenly reveals the news that a friend of theirs from high school was one of the Metrolink victims. Another short story you‘ll be sure to want to check out is Bishara, Avi, Always, Kristi Kellog‘s narrative of what happens when a conservative Hindu boy meets a worldly Indian girl hell-bent on winning a major beauty contest. Poetry is well represented in this year‘s journal, making up about one-half of the entries. Adam Piccirilli electrifies us with his love poem Arc Eyes, Sara Parker introduces us to the horrors of nursing home life in A Part of Adulthood I’d Rather Avoid, and Krista Wilbur, last year‘s managing editor, takes us into the dark, blood-stained alleys of poesie noir with Kaleidoscope. Current events were popular with our submitters this year; Sara Parker comes through again, delivering a sarcastic political elbow-punch with Hooray For Proposition 8, Chris O‘Neal tells us the advantages of pet ownership during a recessionary economy in Do Rabbits Dream of Electric People, and Sean Colletti‘s esoteric Now Serving Number 44 will have you puzzling over its meaning. Look closely – the clues are there.
Our editorial committee offers up their own contributions, of course. MYUZ‘s mamma capa, Kellie Griffin, brings us into the lives of two young friends on their way to a blood test in Transposition, Julie Fontes shows us what can happen when you meet up with your past at a downtown club in And Hearts, and Guy MacLaury illustrates the perils of beachcombing after dark in Jamaica with A Walk on the Seven Mile Beach. In addition,
Luis Maranan takes us into the gravity-prone forest of One Hundred Hills, there‘s the aforementioned reflective non-fiction short story from Joshua Bauer – Spared – and George Morgan squeezes in a few pages with a story about cul-de-sac culture, helicopters, and Polynesian cannabis in Where the Road Ends. We broke some new ground this year, using technology in innovative ways. This is the first time the CSUCI literary journal has been published by an online publishing company: lulu.com. This will allow copies of MYUZ to be available in perpetuity. All in all we believe our readers will enjoy the writing in this year‘s campus journal. It‘s been a pleasure putting it together. If you have any comments, or ideas to improve the next one, please write to us at island.fox@csuci.edu. The MYUZ Committee
2009-05-01T00:00:00ZIsland Fox vol. 3: This is not a journal
http://hdl.handle.net/10139/466
Island Fox vol. 3: This is not a journal
Buczkowski, Sherian; Chainee, Casey; Cohea, Scott; Crispin, Kelly; Gershater, Tamara; Goodman, Jessy; Moore, Elise; Pasha, Kathy; Graham, Paul Gilbert; Jordan, Rachael; O'Briant, Michelle; O'Neal, Chris; Hadlock-Piltz, Rachel; Salinas, F. Albert; Smith, Shannan; Sullivan, Ronnie; Quin, Tanya; Wilbur, Krista; Zepeda, Monica Yesenia
Goodman, Jessy
2007-10-01T00:00:00Z