Conceptions Southwest (CSW) has been the fine arts and literary magazine of the University of New Mexico since 1978. The magazine is published by a student staff every year in the spring semester.  It serves as a creative outlet and solicits work from UNM undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, faculty, staff and participants in Continuing Education. Almost any medium of expression is encouraged, but the main categories of submissions generally fall into art, theater, fiction, nonfiction, poetry and photography.