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The MacGuffin – Vol. 41, No. 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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November 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Revving up and shifting into top gear, The MacGuffin<\/em>\u202f takes the first lap of volume 41 with the asemic art of Gregory Stump. Poet Liz Marlow returns to our pages via different terrain with \u201cRosa Leaves Kyiv on a Riverboat,\u201d and after riding with Andrew Collard\u2019s \u201cCoffee Truck,\u201d we get out on a hike with Dixie Partridge. Intimated by Tina Tocco\u2019s narrative recipe \u201cResults May Vary,\u201d this issue\u2019s prose selections mix together disparate characters into a rich minestrone served up by head chefs Andrew Nickerson, Angie Curneal Palsak, and Alina Zollfrank, with musical accompaniment from Ryan Bender-Murphy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The MacGuffin, established in 1984, is a national literary magazine created on campus. The journal is a 160-page, 6-inch by 9-inch perfect-bound collection of poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art, including black and white photos, prints and drawings. Our MacGuffin is published three times per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mission of The MacGuffin is to encourage, support, and enhance the literary arts in the Schoolcraft College community, the region, the state, and the nation. By fulfilling its role as a national literary journal, The MacGuffin brings national and international prestige to Schoolcraft College. It is our main vehicle for our contribution to literary excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s a MacGuffin?<\/summary>
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The moving force (and sometimes the solution) of a work of mystery fiction is referred to as a MacGuffin, a concept that originated in Victorian England. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alfred Hitchcock used the term and said, \u201cNo film is complete without a MacGuffin because that\u2019s what everybody is after.\u201d The MacGuffin might be the papers everyone is looking for or the ring that was stolen \u2014 in short, the MacGuffin is any device or gimmick that gets a plot rolling. The MacGuffin itself has little, if any, fundamental importance, and, according to Hitchcock, is nothing in and of itself.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The MacGuffin’s Purposes<\/summary>
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