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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle. Openings 1977 Page Twenty-on- e Literary mag seeks submissions Quarterly West, the University literary magazine, nas just completed hat editor Andrew Grossbardt calls a successful first year. He said he expects this year to best as good and hopes to receive a lot more student submissions. The purpose of Quartet ly West is "to provide an outlet for creative writing at the University of Utah and also to showcase some of the best writing from writers around the country." Grossbardt said. "The editors of Quarterly West are actively soliciting wotk from members of the University community and also reading and considering manuscripts submitted by outside writers," he said. Grossbardt said he thinks it is good for students to have their woiks apj-aalongside the wotks of established wiiteis. He added that many of the outside wi iters who have appeared in Quartet ly West are nationally known. Well known writers who have apjxated in Quartet ly West are Annie Dillatd, Sam Slupjuid, Phillip Ijevineand Allen Gins? rg. In its first vear of publication, Quaiterlv West has seen much improvement. The magaine, which started out with I(M)ues is now 11 1 paj;es. GiossLudtatiributeil this growth to the increase in submissions. "Itoih the (ju.tlitv aixl qu.iniiiY of submissions is iu leasing steadily, " he said. Quarterly West received about 100 nun use ripts a month both in fiction and (mm try dining the summet and, Grosshaidi r and an issue has ahead) gone to press, it will be considered for tin- - next issue." Quarterly West is published by Publications Council and receives the majority of its finances from them. However. Grossbardt said Quarterly West recently received a grant from the Utah Arts Council, which is a grant to pay Utah said, the number of submissions would increase greatly during the school year. Grossbardt said the magazine hopes to encourage more student submissions by a advertising, sponsoring writing competition and getting w riting teachers to tell students about the magazine. "It is a good idea for students who are seriously interested in writing to submit works to us and to other publications," he According to Grossbardt there w ill be no major changes in Quarterly West this vear. One change however, will be the addition of .i nunirVi f .boioti t hsfiom the Utah Stale Historical Socirtv. "We to be able to relied Western said. "There tie Grossbardt interests," hteratv main magazines in the Northwest, and the West Oust, but there Southwest, aren't really any in the Ink tmoumain West," he said. Submissions to Quarterly West are judged in an process. Grosshaidt c ornes in w hen submission that a explained to the magazine it is read by either the joetry or fiction editors. If the editors agree that they like a submission it will le accepted. "Sometimes we'll suggest small changes and sometimes we will accept a piece exactly as it is," he said. The nugaiiie has no sxcific deadline (or n h isMx "When i ugh material is it goes tf ptess, sublimit d to till the Giosshaidt said. "II t.i; subia.ssions come in he on-goin- g short cciutse in se pilosis is of feted the University Counseling (inter. Ihe by course is held Mondays and Tuesdays at noon, and is ftee to students, faculty and staff. Ihe Ik tie fits from this technique include body and mind te taxation, it lief from simple anxiety, and improved lf-h- v concentration. Ihe technique is taught by Hilda Patker and Mary He whan at the Counseling Outer, Annex LM20. The coutse involves alxnit one hour, for two or thtee sessions. According to Patket. hypnotism is an "...alteted state of attention approaching j)eak intensity." A jMisoit who is in a trance had concentrated his hvpnotic attention to sue h a nattow foe us that he is not bothered by ticriphcia! distractions. "One of the problems so many students have is that they cannot eonecniiate. 'I "hey take a Ixiok and slat t reading anil before you can say. 'one, two, three,' the ir mind is on some thing else.. .therefore die) c an't learn," said Patker. Patker went on to say that appatenily the capacity to concentrate is he teclit.it ily linked. Some xople tan concentrate and shut out distrac lions much easier than other s. "Ihis predisposition can Ik- noticed at an eatly age. Intelligence Quotient (I.Q.) and the capacity for attention and concentration seem to be intertwined. as Parker describes eel signal. This is "te spouse to a essentially what we do line. We give- you a way that. ..you will induce that in vontself. A person who use s se li hv pilosis doc s so with a stM'cific goal in mind. One of the ways suggested for its use was containecl in a further definition of the technique. 'It's just another methtxl of relaxation," said Patker. "They could do TM (transcendental meditation) or they could do yoga you know, the kind of yoga that can completely relax them. We have a lot of students and staff and fac ulty people who've read about it and want to learn to relax without having to take tranquilizers - self-hypnos- 1 V- - i He also said the magazine has just become eligible to apply for a grant from the Council of little Magazines (CCLM) through the National Endowment for the Arts. If the magazine receives a grant from CCLM the money w ill probably be used to iay contributors more and "to put the financial burden more on the magazine rather than on Publications Council," Grossbardt said. "Ihis year Quarterly West is sjxmsoring a writing contest along with the Department of English and the Associated Students of the Universitv of Utah (ASUU). Ihe 1977-7Quarterly West Writing will have iwodivisons in Ixith Competition oe ttv and fiction: Student and Ojte ti. Gtossbatdt said all submissions to Quarteth West beginning October I and ending January I ate eligible for the competition. All entries must be accomjkinied by a siamjied, vlf addressed Coordinating ill - . "K Of r 8 e Andrew Grossbardt $100). and all winners will be published in the following issue of Quartet I y West. (tossbtrdt said he hojx-- the coinjn tition will encourage student submissions. He added that it w ill U- another w ay of making Quartet ly West mote widely know n here (SL'OO, s nvc Iojk". - Eirst and second prizes will le awardcti for fiction $L0 1st, $l"0 2nd) and joetty Relax and concentrate better with A i f writerrs. said. and around the country. method self-hypnos- is difficult to put under a hypnotic trance J." Hypnosis is a valuable psychological tool. Most jx'ople probably have been exposed to its mote t at niv al aspect, that of a stage magician, such as 'Ihe Amazing Kreskin (who. by the way. claims that hypnosis dex's not exist and is a xpular myth). Ihis asjnt t of hypnosis could cause some to shy away ftom trying it for themselves. And in this vein, Patker have trouble if replied. "A lot of somclxKly else does it to them. But with vlf hypnosis, you give up conuol to gain council. By giving up, you gain." help to tailor an apptoach to fit the individual's sjKtific goals, said Parker, What kind of success rate has the program had? "It dexndson how suggestible they are," said Patker. " I he more suggestable jn'ople generally. ..have a high success in learning the methcxl very ejuic kly. Those xople w ho fight it they'te scared, they're anxious, they're worried they're going to Ix under soincbcxly else's sjm II or something and do things they don't want to do, which teally never hapens. 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