Mag Pie
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Current Issue:
Spring 2025
The CARE Issue
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Now accepting submissions of all forms of writing, reviews, recipes and artwork!
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Next issue: Summer 2025
Theme: INVEST
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Submission deadline: July 15th, 2025
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News
Mag Pie is now an award-winning magazine!
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Mag Pie won the People's Choice Award for being a community service-based project at the Community Engagement Celebration Day at the University of Northern Iowa on April 19, 2019. This award comes with a $200 gift of support from Veridian Credit Union.
Thanks to Veridian and our readers for your support!
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UNI Scholarworks project entry
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Mag Pie Founder Emily Stowe appears as guest host on the North End Update with Rocki and Chaveevah!
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Click thumbnail to view video.
Everybody Has a Story: An Evening of Storytelling
About
How it all started
Inspired by the magpie bird, who collects shiny things to take back to its nest, Mag Pie aims to highlight the "shiny things" in life. That means both things and experiences we collect that make up a fulfilling life.
I love magazines, and I love living in Iowa. I know a lot of talented people who are doing interesting things, and I wanted to feature them and celebrate the culture we are creating in our home state. Mag Pie is a celebration of interesting, talented people and their passions!
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Emily Stowe, Founding Editor
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If you wish to know the origin story of Mag Pie, here it is! This is the video of my presentation called Building Community: Engaging with a Local Audience that I gave as part of the Author Seedbed series at the Waterloo Public Library on August 27th, 2024. It is about my creative history as an artist and writer, my work history and volunteer experiences, and how together they all inspired Mag Pie. Later, this led to my job at the North American Review, and I talk about what I do now as the managing editor and visual art editor. I end with some examples of full-circle moments of community connections that prove I am living my destiny. Thanks to Felicia Babb Cass for hosting this video on her EarthWhispers Abbey YouTube channel!
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