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COMMONPLACES
A journal of first-year writing at Davidson
Call for Papers
Commonplaces is dedicated to publishing writing produced in any courses across the College taken by Davidson students in their first year. We invite writers to submit work produced during the 2021-2022 academic year to be considered for publication in the 2022 issue. We seek academic and intellectual writing of any length that demonstrates a commitment to understanding and its expression, and encourage submissions from the full range of natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Submission GuidelinesRecent Works
- Danny Brown: Representation and Refutation of Camp
- A Gradual Epiphany: Individuation in Tracy K. Smith’s Ordinary Light
- Faulty Memories of the Lisbon Sisters: Growing Sideways in Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides
- Buddhist Violence: An Oversimplification of the Conflict in Myanmar
- The Irreconcilable Differences between Controversial Creators and their Works
- Following the Path to Positivity
- Family Over Everything
- Leveling the Playing Field: Fair Voting as Democratic Practice
- Reconstructed and Repackaged Displays of Antebellum History: The Problematic Structure of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad
