2017 Submission Period Ended

Many thanks to all our contributors! Headwaters 2017 is no longer taking submissions. We will be reviewing work over the coming weeks and plan to contact authors and artists with accepted selections soon.

Once again, thank you for sharing your work with us. We are looking forward to creating another great journal this year!

Open Mic Night!

Headwaters is hosting an Open Mic Night on Friday, October 14, from 7-9pm in Alumni Hall, and you are invited!

We would love for anyone who is interested to come and share some of their work. Old work, new work, works in progress– we would love for you to share anything you’d like! Visual art and literary arts are both welcome!
There will be refreshments. Please bring your friends!

NOW TAKING SUBMISSIONS FOR HEADWATERS 2016!

NOW TAKING SUBMISSIONS FOR HEADWATERS 2016!

Hello all,

We’re proud to announce that Headwaters Creative Arts is now fully ready to accept submissions to our upcoming Spring 2016 issue! Please submit all work to this JotForm link. We’re accepting fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, short drama, and every form and medium of art that the human cerebrum can process. Whether you’re an established contributor or a total newbie, everyone is invited to submit. If you’ve never been published before, this is the perfect place to start out—and we’re always looking for fresh new voices.

We only ask that you limit your writing submissions to 4,000 words, and we warn you in advance that we can only publish two visual art submissions per contributor (though you’re free to submit as many as you want).

Once again, our JotForm link is here. Send your work our way, and we’ll get right on reviewing it.

HEADWATERS 2015 Available Now!


Headwaters 2015 cover (jpeg)

Well, this week marks the conclusion of another successful publication cycle, as the 2015 edition of Headwaters Creative Arts hits the campus of UNCA with a bang! This year’s issue is one of our most jam-packed ever, featuring an unprecedented forty-eight total student contributors, with thirty-two full-color pages of art. Whether you’re into poetry, fiction, memoirs, essays, painting, drawing, sculpture or photography, we’ve got something for you.

Grab a copy to check out the work of our awesome stable of student artists and writers, including Abigail Agoos, Jeff Horner, Mary Markovich, Maddy McDonald, Aaron Romano, Kari Barrows, Tay Greenleaf, Killian Giannini, Asha Gowan, Hadley Hutchens, Emilyann McKelvey, Hannah Noël, Michael Weddington, Luke Aitken, Ava Bock, Kelly Olshan, Isabel Rolles, Amryn Soldier, Louise Bahia Thompson, and many, many more.

It takes an army to get a project like Headwaters 2015 off the ground, and if you’ve supported us by reading our magazine, you’re a part of that army. If you want to keep supporting us, spread the word about our magazine! We’ve always got room for more contributors and volunteers; if you’re passionate about the creative arts, we’ve got a place for you.

Now taking submissions for Headwaters 2015!

Hello all,

We’re proud to announce that Headwaters Creative Arts is now fully ready to accept submissions to our upcoming Spring 2015 issue! Please submit all work to this JotForm link. We’re accepting fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, short drama, and every form and medium of art that the human cerebrum can process. Whether you’re an established contributor or a total newbie, everyone is invited to submit. If you’ve never been published before, this is the perfect place to start out—and we’re always looking for fresh new voices.

We only ask that you limit your writing submissions to 4,000 words, and we warn you in advance that we can only publish two visual art submissions per contributor (though you’re free to submit as many as you want).

Once again, our JotForm link is here. Send your work our way, and we’ll get right on reviewing it.