Welcome to the official website of UMKC’s The Sosland Journal!

The Sosland Journal is an annual publication of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, funded by Rheta Sosland-Hurwitt, that features essays by student winners and runners-up of the Ilus W. Davis Writing Competition. The journal exhibits exemplary writing from both composition courses and University-wide Writing Intensive courses to be published and distributed to a larger audience, including UMKC students who use the journal as a textbook in select writing courses and the Kansas City community at large.

Read the 2023 issue of The Sosland Journal here.