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 2024 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: 2023
Complete Issue
Fiction
Creepy Crawlies
Georgia K. Kirkendall
Not One to Blame
Beatrice Slevin-Trigo
Where We Parted
Katherine C. Cornet
The Very Blood in My Veins
Mikelyn G. Britt
Animal Planet
Emily O'Hara
Nonfiction
My Longest Friend
Mikelyn G. Britt
The Market
Kelly Smolik
Codes of Dress and Stress
Theodore J. Szpakowski
Craft Elements
Emily C. O'Hara
Conversations By the Yellow Fire Hydrant
Hannah Rinehart
What You Learned from The Purity Princess
Noelle G. Muni
Poetry
The First Poem I've Written in 7 Months
Hannah Crowley
Letter from Campus
Beatrice Slevin-Trigo
Fairy House
Hannah Crowley
Great Tree
Andrew B. Casher
A Love Letter to the Soulmate I Haven’t Met Yet
Katelyn Oglesby
Forty-Nine Shades of Green
Aly Leia Wein
The Dreamer
Mikelyn G. Britt
how I love
Marisa Conners
#weightlossjourney
Mikelyn G. Britt
Composed Amidst Feverish Delirium: Ill Again
Andrew B. Casher
Lycidas Hath Fallen
Rory J. Wainwright
The Torment of Lady Daffodil
Xiao-Yu Chen
Lady Eleanor Davies on the Death of her Husband
Noelle G. Muni
Paranormal Activity
Aly Leia Wein
Think of Me
Beatrice Slevin-Trigo
All this happened, more or less
Noelle G. Muni
Artwork
My Mexican Heart Unravels
Julián Sánchez-Melchor
Brooklyn Bridge at Night
Christopher Pareja Garcia
Hudson Yards (2020)
Christopher Pareja Garcia
I wish the mountains and sea could touch.
Mary Peter E. Rigg
Hazel Eyes
Luca Espana
Comical Abstraction
Ellie Bentz
Requiem (Still Life)
Emma L. Wylam
Gentle Giant
Luca Espana
Study of Rembrandt
Hannah N. Preble
Sunlight in Florence
Hannah Rinehart
Editors
- Editors-on-Chief
- Noelle Muni
- Hannah Rinehart
- Editors
- Adrianna Ashcraft
- Archer Castle
- Lauren A. Chu
- Laken Franchetti
- Aly Leia Wein