Making Connections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Diversity invites submissions for our spring 2013 issue. The deadline for this open-topic issue is February 15, 2013. We publish academic essays from any discipline, poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and book reviews that explore cultural diversity. Making Connections is a national journal published by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and the Frederick Douglass Institute Collaborative. We prefer electronic submissions in Word format at connect@bloomu.edu. Manuscripts should conform to citation methods as described in the current MLA Handbook. Manuscripts will be peer- reviewed, and authors will be notified in two to three months. For more information about subscriptions or submissions email connect@bloomu.edu.