What is The Dazed Starling: Unbound?
California Baptist University's Literary Journal
The Dazed Starling is a student run literary journal of the Creative Writing program at California Baptist University. CBU’ s Dazed Starling student literary journal is an annual print edition of student work.
The Dazed Starling: Unbound extends the print journal’ s mission by offering a digital publication opportunity open not only to current CBU students but also to faculty, alumni, and friends of the university. The Dazed Starling: Unbound also seeks to extend the creative voice of The Dazed Starling student literary journal with additional emphasis on visual arts.
Our Story
The first five issues of The Dazed Starling: Unbound have successfully set the foundation for a digital literary journal. This year our editorial team wanted to take this digital medium a step further. In addition to the e-book version published on Issue, we decided to try our hand at creating an interactive digital experience. With two weeks before the publication date, the eight of us spilt off from the larger editorial group and began the creation of this interactive experience. We began by grouping the accepted poetry and prose with the visual art pieces based on theme and location. After this process we arrived at the overall theme of traveling from Space, to Nature, and ending in an Urban environment. One long journey through multiple night based aesthetics. Joshua, Amberly, and Ryan focused on the develop of the experience itself. Kaylee led the graphic design element of the website. David composed a mix of classical and original music to accompany the experience and mixed the narration audio files. Alyssa, Joseph, and Jonathan edited the poetry and prose pieces, compiled the visual and literary database, and wrote content for all of the accessory pages.
Meet The Team
More from The Dazed Starling Editorial Team
Special Thanks
Thank you to the other half of our editorial team who created to wonderful e-book edition of the Unbound: Night Owl! We could not have done this with out your countless hours of editing and graphic designing.
Madison Head, Jenelle Hekman, Isabelle Ray, Mikaela Schmierer, Miranda Smith, Alec Teffeteller, Emma Totaro, and Caroline Zamudio
Also, thank you to Dr. Erika Travis, our professor and Managing Editor, for providing us the skills and creative freedom needed to create The Dazed Starling: Unbound 's first interactive digital project! As well as Sean Langevin, Administrative Secretary for the Division of Arts and Letters, for arranging our meeting locations.
Thank you to each of our contributors and collaborators who were brave enough to share refined pieces of themselves and allow us the honor of presenting their hard work to our readers. We hope our construction of Unbound does justice to all the hard work within and creates an enjoyable experience for our audience.
The Managing Editor would also like to thank Dr. Chuck Sands, Provost of CBU; Dr. Lisa Hernández, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences; and all of those who offered their encouragement, guidance, and friendship during this publication process. The Dazed Starling is published with funds generously provided by CBU’s Department of Modern Languages & Literature.