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: 2024
Complete Issue
Fiction
Door in the Trees
Greer E H Garver
Blue Dome Blue Sky
Luca Espana
Unraveling Familiarity
Katherine C. Cornet
Just Like Jesus
Georgia Kirkendall
Tacit, Tacet
Jacob Krebs
Rock in the Storm
Aubrey Mandichak
Nonfiction
The Lowest Point
Archer A. Castle
Celiac Disease: The Tale of the “Chip Dilemma” and Cross Contamination
Laken J. Franchetti
Familiar Flesh
Bethany N. Shifflett
The Square is a Circle
Nat Schneller
A Decade and Some Change
Ella A. Prieto
Poetry
Deliverance
Archer A. Castle
Memento Mori
Erin Scanga
Who Has Stolen the Kids Away?
Julián Sánchez-Melchor
The Questioning
Beatrice Slevin-Trigo
My Dear Autumn
Chloe E. Hanousek
Loving a Man When You Occasionally Still Feel Like a Little Boy
Alexander Hanley
What's In A Deadname?
Theodore J. Szpakowski
A Math Problem
Cameron M. Fleming
To Be (Native) American
Julián Sánchez-Melchor
The Dish-Doer
Cyndy Basil
To Your Portrait - An Ode to Mexico’s Sor Juana
Julián Sánchez-Melchor
Myself as a Movie-Watcher
Cyndy Basil
I Have To Finish That!
Ainsley C. Green
Hematite Ring
Beatrice Slevin-Trigo
Artwork
You Will Be Ok
Ellie Bentz
Rouge's MiniWorld
Julián Sánchez-Melchor
Anthropoid
Diptiman Das
Reimagine Tradition
Julián Sánchez-Melchor
Mallam and Magajiyya Chronicles
Diptiman Das
Apocalyptic Skies
Luca Espana
In My Head
Ellie Bentz
Of Years Past (Plank Gym)
Emma Wylam
Mary's Gold
Julián Sánchez-Melchor
I Shall Be MISERABLE
Emma Wylam
Philly's Girl
Luca Espana
Editors
- Editors-in-Chief
- Noelle Muni
- Adrianna Ashcraft
- Editors
- Archer Castle
- Laken Franchetti
- Cassidy Haines
- Emma Wylam
- Contributing Editors
- Ella Beam
- Isabel Coupe
- Cameron Fleming
- Cassidy Haines
- Chloe Hanousek
- Georgia Kirkendall
- Sage McHattie
- Layken Ridenour
- Erin Scanga
- Beatrice Slevin-Trigo
- Kenzie Smith
- Alice van Etten