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I slept in dad’s old room when we went to grandma’s. A great expanse of green fields and fresh country air, chilly and vast, forged its way through the mangled woods my grandparents were too old now to tend to. The woods have remnants of walking paths carved around them, and pine needles that cover…
The limited, one-off, 2025 alumni zine.
Nova Volume 56, Issue 2
From the Editor:
The zine you are holding was assembled by hand by the staff of Nova Literary-Arts Magazine, the oldest publication of Student Niner Media at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (save the newspaper).
Inside are 14 pieces, contributed by alumni of Nova, our predecessor magazine Sanskrit, and of Student Niner Media at large.
At Charlotte, student media began 78 years ago. In that time, Nova has published almost 60 issues, and nearly a thousand students have joined our staff to write, edit, design, print, and publish our annual volume. If we consider the total students who’ve passed through our basement offices, that number is almost certainly more than ten thousand.
This zine is a special, one-off edition. We are celebrating the long legacy of student media at UNC Charlotte, across all publications. At the same time, we are working at the cutting edge of form and design.
You’ll have noticed this zine’s aggressively contemporary digital touches alongside more retro, physical flourishes. Alongside the pixels and bounding boxes is a distinctive serif’ed Nova logo that hearkens back to the very first Sanskrit logo.
This tension, between our past and future, informs every aspect of our work. As the pieces featured here show, art is not only for the young. It is a way of living.
Zachary Jenkins – Editor-in-Chief
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