{"id":1995,"date":"2025-10-17T12:40:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/cypressdome\/?page_id=1995"},"modified":"2026-10-03T11:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T15:39:43","slug":"what-were-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/cypressdome\/what-were-looking-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What We&#8217;re Looking For"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want to know more about what we\u2019re looking for in the 38th edition of <em>The Cypress Dome<\/em>? Here are a few words from our genre leads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jamie Sub Laban<\/strong> &#8211;&nbsp;Poetry Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re looking for poems evident of your singular humanity. Inked on evidence of a writer who soaks in life\u2019s sublimities and wrings themself out onto the page. We want work that is observant and transgressive, destructive to clich\u00e9, and constructive of new worlds, rooted in the sensory. We want you to transform the abstract, rather than be formed by abstractions, and most of all, as readers and as poets, we want to feel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019d love to read your work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mariem Touati<\/strong> &#8211; Fiction Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fiction team is leaning in: let your voice be heard! We want that daring draft you\u2019re unsure of that\u2019s been sitting in the back of your mind. Be bold, be creative, but most importantly, push past your limitations! Bring us characters so realistic and dynamics so charged that they step right off the page. We&#8217;re scouring for daring premises paired with restrained storytelling, pieces that render us hopeful ponderers during and long after reading! So take the leap of faith, submit that story (you know which one), and give us a piece that makes us forget we\u2019re reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Skyelar Wiedrich<\/strong> &#8211; Creative Nonfiction Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the story, not the situation, that matters in nonfiction. Your narrative doesn\u2019t have to center tragedy\u2014tell me about the last time you brushed your teeth or tied your shoes, as long as you can connect it to the broader world in a compelling way. We\u2019re looking for work that is raw, vulnerable, and present. We want to archive what writers are thinking and feeling at this specific moment in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ash Brooke<\/strong> &#8211; Art Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no language as precise yet all-encompassing as art. 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