The Mercury: The Student Art & Literary Magazine of Gettysburg College began in 1893 and is currently published annually in both physical and digital form. All Gettysburg College students are invited to participate and submit their work. Student editors are elected annually by the entire staff. Submissions will open October 1, with a deadline of January 2 for the 2025 edition. Submissions are reviewed and chosen anonymously by the staff. The magazine is published in April.
The Mercury accepts submissions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, artwork, and photography. See the Submission Guidelines to answer your questions about how to submit your work.
Current Year: 2025
Complete Issue
Fiction
The Silent Thread
Omer Shamil
What's Left Unseen
Katherine C. Cornet
The Death of Reason
Ella Beam
Finding Repetition
Kieran Caves
The Woman of the Hour
Jules Young
Childhood Rearranged
Kieran Caves
Between the Lines
Sage McHattie
Poetry
'Toona Town
Taylor G. DeGennaro
Ovis Sequitur
Alexander E. Hanley
Inheritance
Omer Shamil
Happy Nineteenth Birthday
Kenzie Smith
From a Voice in an Etruscan Tomb
Erin Scanga
sylvia and me
Leah R. Nath
Edmund of Gloucester
Alexander E. Hanley
Love Letter to Our Incoherence
Kieran Caves
TO: [redacted]
Leah R. Nath
You Are Not My Father
Alexander E. Hanley
My Least Favorite 5 Letter Word
Samantha M. Grayson
In the Days After
Cassidy Haines
A Reflection on the First Man
Alexander E. Hanley
Letter to Emily Dickinson
Taylor G. DeGennaro
Last Thoughts by Rebecca Nurse
Cassidy Haines
Artwork
Condolences
Alice L. Van Etten
Over Yonder
Luca Espana
No Funny Business
Luca Espana
Ode to Pennsylvania
Lizzy Kramer
Girl and Cat
Sia Harrison
Fox and Hare
Isobel Debenham
Girl with Mask
Sia Harrison
Venus of Appalachia
Lizzy Kramer
The Ballet
Luca Espana
Empire State of Mind
Luca Espana
Editors
- Editor-in-Chief
- Adrianna Ashcraft
- Sage McHattie
- Editors
- Cassidy Haines
- Caelyn Henderson
- Kenzie Smith
- Madeline Swicord
- Contributing Editors
- Amber Bailey
- Ella Beam
- Katherine Cornet
- Izzy Coupe
- Lorelei Domick
- Grace Jurchack
- Grace Renshaw
- Beatrice Slevin-Trigo
- Ava Stringer
- Alice Van Etten