The Maverick is the Western New Mexico University student-run undergraduate academic journal. The Maverick is supported by WNMU’s academic imprint, Mimbres Press, and is dedicated to representing the WNMU undergraduate student body through in-class and extracurricular essays, research, art, and creative writing.

Mimbres Press of Western New Mexico University welcomes agented and unagented submissions in the following genres: literary fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, memoir, poetry, children’s books, historical fiction, and academic books. It is particularly interested in academic work and commercial work with a strong social message including, but not limited to, works of history, reportage, biography, anthropology, culture, human rights, the natural world, and will also consider selective works of national and global significance.