The magazine has been around for about fifty years.
Sam Wood, the current editor of the magazine and a senior in architecture, said the publication has had its name for eight of those years.
The magazine’s title is not capitalized in honor of e.e. cummings’ work, which is marked by a lack of capitalization.
Once a year, enormous rooms takes literary submissions from undergraduate students in the categories of poetry, prose (both fiction and non-fiction) and any other principal media (including printable art) and publishes them at the end of Spring Semester.
What makes enormous rooms unique, however, is who it takes submissions from: everyone.
“We want to be able to publish up-and-comers from all over the place,” Wood said. Many collegiate literary magazines take submissions only from their students, but enormous rooms takes submissions from undergrads and artists from all over the country, which gives opportunities to writers and artists who want to showcase their work to a broader audience.
Despite not focusing academically on writing, Wood was inspired to involve himself with enormous rooms after being involved with his award-winning high school literary magazine.
“A lot of senior editors are English majors, but I’m just passionate about the publication process,” he said.
Submissions for enormous rooms are accepted between November and December, but this year the magazine has decided to extend the deadline for late submissions in order to get even more interesting material.
Poetry editor Kassandra Konecny said that this year, the submissions received have a large amount of variety, but enormous rooms is still in need of things to publish.
“We really need more art submissions,” she said. “We’re lacking on the art.”
Wood agreed and said he hoped enormous rooms can expand more from traditional literary writing.
“I’m trying to push for a broader understanding of what art is,” he said.
After all submissions are received at the end of this month, the enormous rooms staff, which is made up entirely of students, will read through and score submissions in search of works that will publish well together.
Konecny is also hopeful that this year’s issue will be the best one yet.
“I have been working with enormous rooms for three issues now, and I love it,” she said. “The quality of the magazine is improving every year, and I hope this will be the best year it has ever seen.”
Anyone who wants to be considered for publication with enormous rooms can send submissions to [email protected].