The Island Fox Journal 2025

Good morning, day, evening, or night,Building this year's Island Fox Journal has been nothing short of awesome. Bearing witness to the diverse talent students and alumni contributed was a true gift, one that we are ecstatic to be revealing to you. Being absorbed into poetry, transported into short stories, and awestruck by visual art was what made this unique experience worthwhile because, after all, it was hard work! There is no taking away from the countless hours each team member put in to ensure this journal's success. The one mandatory meeting every Thursday was where updates were given, not where progress was accomplished. That happened during each free moment every other day of the week.From the beginning, we had astronomical decisions to make. We had to agree on a theme! Our team knew we wanted to highlight CSU Channel Islands' main attraction: its natural beauty. Our incredible art team toyed with numerous ideas on how to capture the campus's essence and tie it into the Island Fox. They worked tirelessly day and night, just as the artists who shared their work did, just as our team did to make this publication happen. This made us realize the sun and moon are guaranteed to rise and fall with us everyday, so why not incorporate that consistent radiance into our version of this journal? We hope you too see a surreal reality that can be enhanced through angelic perspectives, such as seeing our serene campus through stained glass.To all of the artists that submitted to the Island Fox, we express our deepest appreciation. Evaluating 200+ submissions was a grueling, yet extremely rewarding process that none of us took lightly. Thank you very much for sharing your vulnerability and imagination with us through writing and visual art; we thoroughly enjoyed every piece that was submitted. Whether your work was accepted or not, please never stop submitting to this publication because without you, we would be a dream that escapes the world during the quiet abyss of the night. Never stop creating something authentic to you and allowing it to see the full light of day.The process of assembling a publication has been a demanding, engrossing, delightful, enlightening, fulfilling, bumpy, chthonic rollercoaster and we could not be more proud for you to view the final product. Please allow the Island Fox Journal to provide you with works of art that will elicit a range of emotions from sunrise to sunset.With humble thanks,Island Fox Journal 2025 Team