This week, the 58th issue of Sonora Review, the oldest student-run literary journal in the country, is going to print. Sweet. As art director, it’s like I get to know the future. And so here, world, is a snapshot of the near future.

Some cool things about this issue. First, the journal is being printed locally by Drew Burk of Spork Press, which allowed us to use – gasp! – color. Often with literary journals, the genres are not distinguished except for in the table of contents. For this issue, however, I had a few spreads in mind that I wanted to use as dividers not to make any sort of conceptual statement about the division of genres (everything is everything, after all) but because I thought they were beautiful. Perhaps the most cool thing about our forthcoming issue is that it’s being handbound, which everyone knows I heart.