The Vernal Pool
The UC Merced undergraduate creative arts journal, The Vernal Pool, celebrates 10 years of publication!
Originally a faculty-run journal, The Vernal Pool provides an expressive space for the undergraduate student body to publish original fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual arts, audio, and video works. As the primary venue for publishing creative works at UC Merced, The Vernal Pool represents the diversity and innovation of the Bobcat community and provides a platform for aspiring artists to be seen and heard. If you wish to see the kind of work published in this journal, feel free to look at our latest edition.
The UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal
For over a decade, the UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal has gathered, polished, and published the best research produced by our students across the academic disciplines. Founded in 2007 by UCM Merritt Writing Program faculty, the URJ (as the journal is colloquially known) is produced twice per academic year by students enrolled in Writing 131C, a professional editing and journal production course. In the interests of furthering the spread of knowledge, the URJ is an open-access publication indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals; in other words, there is no paywall or subscription fee separating our content from potential readers. We invite submissions from students across our campus in the heart of California's Central Valley, and we attract readers from all over the world.
