{"id":230,"date":"2015-09-30T16:29:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T16:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2026-03-03T03:13:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:13:31","slug":"about-oxmag","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/about-oxmag\/","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">about<\/h2>\n\n\n<h2><strong>About <em>OxMag<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>OxMag<\/em> (or more formally: <em>Oxford Magazine<\/em>) is a literary &amp; arts magazine edited and published by creative writing MFA students at Miami University. Since our premiere in 1984, our magazine has received Pushcart Prizes for both fiction and poetry, and has published authors such as Charles Baxter, William Stafford, Robert Pinsky, Stephen Dixon, Helena Maria Viramontes, Andre Dubus, and Stuart Dybek. \u00a0Appearing biannually, <em>OxMag<\/em> is a web-based journal that accepts fiction, poetry, new media, and creative nonfiction\/essays. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We&#8217;re looking for prose, poetry, hybrid work, and art that bends genres, experiments with forms, and includes unusual, even bizarre, premises. We particularly enjoy work that makes daring comparisons, includes strange points-of-view, and that makes us unsure if we should laugh or cry. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We encourage those who come from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to submit work, including but not limited to: race\/ethnicity, class, geography\/culture, religion\/spirituality, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and ability.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miami University is located within the traditional homelands of the Myaamia and Shawnee people, who along with other indigenous groups ceded these lands to the United States in the first Treaty of Greenville in 1795. The Miami people, whose name our university carries, were forcibly removed from these homelands in 1846.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"433\" height=\"577\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/files\/2020\/09\/IMG_1981-removebg-preview-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2303\" style=\"width:435px;height:580px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/files\/2020\/09\/IMG_1981-removebg-preview-2.png 433w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/files\/2020\/09\/IMG_1981-removebg-preview-2-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>about About OxMag OxMag (or more formally: Oxford Magazine) is a literary &amp; arts magazine edited and published by creative writing MFA students at Miami University. Since our premiere in 1984, our magazine has received Pushcart Prizes for both fiction and poetry, and has published authors such as Charles Baxter, William Stafford, Robert Pinsky, Stephen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/about-oxmag\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;about&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2310,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-230","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/oxmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}