Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing is a student-run publication at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. We publish students' fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, photography, and art. Students from across all disciplines in the university are encouraged to submit work in all styles, genres, and forms. fishladder aims to select the best, most artistic work for publication.
The journal accepts submissions throughout the GVSU Fall semester, with a deadline at the end of the December finals week. Submissions are carefully considered by our student staff, and final decisions are made by our editors. The yearly print edition is unveiled every April, with copies available in Lake Ontario Hall and across the Allendale campus. The online edition will be updated annually and archived continually.
Current Issue: Volume 16, Issue 1 (2018) Fifteenth Anniversary Edition
Articles
Letter from the Editors
Kathryn Davis and Chiara Licari
Incantation
Lily Moxley
Fiction
It's A Boy
Annelise Trout
An Ode to Best Friends
Lamont Arrington
Magic 8-Ball
Emily Rose Doran
Nonfiction
The Places We Call Home
Jacob Marion Van Singel
Poetry
Is a 7-Year-Old Too Young for a Funeral?
Mikaela Westrick
Photosynthesis: A Process By Which
Emily Zerrenner
Impermanence
Jennalyn Stull
Contemplative Thoughts About The Intimacy of Physics
Ashley Benedict
In BIO 325
Anne Livingston
The First Time I Met Danny
Liv Baker
Carnivorous
Emily Ferrera
If I was in Love with My Sugar Mama
Cullen Dunning
Art
After Painting
Hailey Ciesluk
Vitality, Feeding on Me
Lily Moxley
Photography
Door, Out of Order
Brett Clark
Waiting for Noon
Kyle Flannery
For Tomorrow
Kyle Flannery
Black & White
Mariah Gozos
