The Helix, or "Helix Magazine," is a Central Connecticut State University student run biannual publication. Central Connecticut State University is a state university in New Britain, Connecticut. It publishes mostly CSU, notably CCSU student writing and artwork, including poetry, short fiction, playwright, creative non-fiction, painting, photography, watercolor, collage, stencil, computer generated artwork, and occasionally, musical scores. Central Connecticut State University is a state university in New Britain, Connecticut. The short story is a literary genre of Fictional Prose Narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. Creative nonfiction (also known as literary or narrative nonfiction is a genre of Writing which uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e Photography (fә'tɒgrәfi or fә'tɑːgrәfi (from Greek φωτο and γραφία is the process and Art of recording pictures by means of capturing Watercolor ( US) or Watercolour ( UK) (and "aquarelle" in French is a Painting method A collage (From the coller to glue is a work of formal art primarily in the Visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms thus creating a new whole A stencil is a Template used to draw or paint identical letters, Symbols, Shapes or Patterns every It is a student funded publication.

From The "Editor's Note"

Central's first literary magazine, A Link in the Normal Chain, was published on February 7, 1855 when Central was the New Britain Normal School. The Pioneer appeared in 1901 with a six-woman editorial staff and the note 'To be published every month by the senior class. ' In 1933, the New Britain Normal School had become the Teachers College of Connecticut; by the late 1940s, The Pillar was being published every spring. From the mid-fifties to the early seventies (it was known as) Contemporary. In 1959, Teachers College developed into Central Connecticut State College and was granted the status of State University in 1983. Central Connecticut State University is a state university in New Britain, Connecticut.

Though there are drawings in previous magazines, art became a more permanent part of this tradition in the form of block prints from Mr. Craft's art class in volume 3 of the 1957 Contemporary. Recently, as a result of cooperation between members of the Art and English departments, especially by Mark Strathy and Dr. Jack Heitner, the quality of the literary magazine at Central has been raised. Their classes and efforts have deepened and strengthened the level of communication between members of the University's community. The 1988 edition (was) titled Adagio.

In 1990, after a two-year hiatus, Dr. Heitner recruited an enthusiastic staff from his American Renaissance class and the literary magazine resurfaced. Today. . . our literary (magazine) emerges as The Helix, but the conversations within remain the same: Poetry, Art, and Fiction. "

- by Carlos L. Castillo Jr.

History

According to CCSU's September 29, 1999 edition of the The Recorder, "(In 1990) the Helix was awarded a yearly budget of $300. Central Connecticut State University is a state university in New Britain, Connecticut. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) The recorder is a woodwind Musical instrument of the family known as Fipple Flutes ' or internal duct flutes &mdash whistle-like " By 1999, it had "grown to a yearly budget of $8,000. " By 2006, it's yearly budget had increased to $25,000 annually. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

In the Fall of 2007, The Helix began collaborating with the Connecticut Review, or CT Review. The Fall '07 and Spring '08 issue of The Helix will have guest editors/faculty advisors Dr. David Cappella, Ravi Shankar (poet), and Dr. Ravi Shankar (born 1975) is an American Poet. He was raised in Manassas VA. Stuart Barnett.

Staff

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