23 August, 2008
Our Stories interviewed Junot Diaz!
check it out: http://www.ourstories.us/Summer_08_Issue/Interview_JunotDiaz.html
Jane Addams Hull House Museum Call for Submsissions
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE STORIES
The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago is seeking poems, essays, and personal narratives to be published in Chicago: An Immigrant City, an anthology of your reflections on the immigrant experience. Since we live in a nation of immigrants, these stories are limited to the breadth of your own unique background. This anthology attempts to celebrate your history by asking you to write it in your own words. We personally invite you to give meaning to the ways of life that are ignored by the masses and force people to recognize them. You are free to submit your words as they reflect on your own immigrant stories and growing up in Chicago, gentrification, the Chicago Public School System, police enforcement, access to health care and education, refugees and asylum issues, LGBTQ concerns, equal rights for immigrants, and any other issues that have affected you.
We are honored to feature your words and a foreword by Elvira Arellano, which will be accompanied by a comprehensive resource guide for immigrants in Chicago. Chicago: An Immigrant City will be published in multiple languages to serve Chicago's diverse population. Tentative publication is Spring 2009.
Submissions should be typed and double-spaced in Times New Roman 12-pt font with 1-inch margins. We encourage submissions in all written forms and are most importantly looking for a well-told story through a succinct and thoughtful word combination. Submissions can include up to three previously unpublished poems or other previously unpublished works not exceeding 5000 words. $50 will be awarded for selected submissions.
Deadline for submission HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO September 15, 2008. Please submit pieces via e-mail to mnikit1@uic.edu or in hard copy form to:
Margot Nikitas
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S. Halsted, M/C 051
Chicago, IL 60607
Ya Basta! Collective Call for Submissions
Call for Submissions: Anthology on Gender, War and Militarism.
· The ¡Ya Basta! Collective is a group of women of color who are putting together an anthology which gives voice to young women, girls, and non gender conforming peoples of color.
· This anthology will be built around themes of war, violence, militarism. We particularly welcome creative work which connects, and troubles, gender binaries through an exploration of militarization, war and violence in our times.
· We invite work that is resistant, hopeful and healing.
All creative work including writing, poems, visual art work, cartoons, sticker designs, stencils, etc. are welcome.
Please send submissions and a short bio including contact information (name, email, or the best way to contact you) in Word or PDF as well as within the body of the text to: YaBastaCollective(at)gmail.com (replace (at) with @). Hard copies can also be sent by mail to: PO Box 55113, Riverside CA 92517 c/o ¡Ya Basta! Collective.
Deadline for Submission: September 15, 2008.
If you would like more information on the ¡Ya Basta! Collective please contact: YaBastaCollective@gmail.com
Don't have anything to submit?
The ¡Ya Basta! Collective will be holding free online writing workshops for girls, women, and gender-non-conforming folks of color on war, militarization and violence in conjunction with the themes of our anthology.
¡Ya Ba
sta! Collective member Ching-In Chen will run the first four-week workshop, starting August 26 and ending September 16, 2008. This will be a group for those who want to jumpstart their writing and are in need of inspiring prompts by writers from our community, open to those writing in all genres and all ages. We especially encourage new and beginning writers!
Each week, writing prompts will be posted for the group (also open if the members of the group have writing prompts/favorite pieces of writing to share!).
Though this workshop is free, we ask that you only apply if you can commit to the entire four-week session. (We hope to run more groups in the future.) The minimum commitment each week would be to write one piece to share with the group, to read our peers' posts and respond/give constructive feedback to at least one of our peers' pieces. The workshop will be limited to no more than 15 participants. To apply for the workshop, please send an introduction (no more than one page) telling us who you are and why you are interested in taking the workshop to YaBastaCollective(at)gmail.com (replace (at) with @)
YaBastaCollective@gmail.com
· The ¡Ya Basta! Collective is a group of women of color who are putting together an anthology which gives voice to young women, girls, and non gender conforming peoples of color.
· This anthology will be built around themes of war, violence, militarism. We particularly welcome creative work which connects, and troubles, gender binaries through an exploration of militarization, war and violence in our times.
· We invite work that is resistant, hopeful and healing.
All creative work including writing, poems, visual art work, cartoons, sticker designs, stencils, etc. are welcome.
Please send submissions and a short bio including contact information (name, email, or the best way to contact you) in Word or PDF as well as within the body of the text to: YaBastaCollective(at)gmail.com (replace (at) with @). Hard copies can also be sent by mail to: PO Box 55113, Riverside CA 92517 c/o ¡Ya Basta! Collective.
Deadline for Submission: September 15, 2008.
If you would like more information on the ¡Ya Basta! Collective please contact: YaBastaCollective@
Don't have anything to submit?
The ¡Ya Basta! Collective will be holding free online writing workshops for girls, women, and gender-non-conforming folks of color on war, militarization and violence in conjunction with the themes of our anthology.
¡Ya Ba
sta! Collective member Ching-In Chen will run the first four-week workshop, starting August 26 and ending September 16, 2008. This will be a group for those who want to jumpstart their writing and are in need of inspiring prompts by writers from our community, open to those writing in all genres and all ages. We especially encourage new and beginning writers!
Each week, writing prompts will be posted for the group (also open if the members of the group have writing prompts/favorite pieces of writing to share!).
Though this workshop is free, we ask that you only apply if you can commit to the entire four-week session. (We hope to run more groups in the future.) The minimum commitment each week would be to write one piece to share with the group, to read our peers' posts and respond/give constructive feedback to at least one of our peers' pieces. The workshop will be limited to no more than 15 participants. To apply for the workshop, please send an introduction (no more than one page) telling us who you are and why you are interested in taking the workshop to YaBastaCollective(at)gmail.
YaBastaCollective@gmail.com
22 August, 2008
What are Los Eloteros?
Well, I'd like to think we're a collective of writers that came together because there was no other outlet available. As young aspiring word manipulators we thought, where can we go to maintain our creative process, how do we submit, where do we submit and most of all how do we keep ourselves motivated? The truth is our small communities and our larger community as a whole does not value the written word and the only kind of value we can expect is the kind we give. As Latino's we understand that we are marginalized and pigeonholed when it comes to our Spanish diction and cultural themes.
Being young often broke writers we know how hard it is to stay inspired. What our tight circle of six Eloteros provides, is an atmosphere in which we can be surrounded by peers that we admire and would hate to loose in our ever expanding literary world. As Eloteros we understand the varying voices, narrative tones of our work and the work outside of our collaborative. Together we want to promote the creative development of Youth, having read and heard the immense talent within our community we are, at a basic level, an ensemble trying to create exposure for those of us that get none.
To be continued..
Sidenote!
Maybe I should post this somewhere else but I've been thinking about the usage of Latino/a and I'm aware I wrote, 'As Latino's' without the slash. Here's the thing I don't really use the slash because Latinos in Spanish, as we all know, encompasses both Female and Male. So I guess I feel like it's redundant or unnecessary? So educate me querido Eloteros di me que piensan. Can we open it to debate, si? Honestly educate me. SLASH OR NO SLASH!
Being young often broke writers we know how hard it is to stay inspired. What our tight circle of six Eloteros provides, is an atmosphere in which we can be surrounded by peers that we admire and would hate to loose in our ever expanding literary world. As Eloteros we understand the varying voices, narrative tones of our work and the work outside of our collaborative. Together we want to promote the creative development of Youth, having read and heard the immense talent within our community we are, at a basic level, an ensemble trying to create exposure for those of us that get none.
To be continued..
Sidenote!
Maybe I should post this somewhere else but I've been thinking about the usage of Latino/a and I'm aware I wrote, 'As Latino's' without the slash. Here's the thing I don't really use the slash because Latinos in Spanish, as we all know, encompasses both Female and Male. So I guess I feel like it's redundant or unnecessary? So educate me querido Eloteros di me que piensan. Can we open it to debate, si? Honestly educate me. SLASH OR NO SLASH!
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