opportunity - Slag Glass City

[Mona]

This is from my friend and colleague (Barrie Jean Borich) from the second Op-Ed Project cohort. She asked that I send it to you.
It sounds very cool!
Mona

Hello OpEd Colleagues: 

Forgive me for not responding to any group mail in the last few months, but the reason is I've dropped everything (aside from teaching/tenure deadlines) to get my magazine project off the ground. Read down for the email I just sent to my department--and please know I am VERY interested in publishing first-person work by scholars working on city-based themes. What I'm looking for is rather like the OpEd, but with more voice and ruminative uncertainty.  I want essays, short-or-long, that are exploring questions, across disciplines, rather than making yes/no arguments. Please drop me a note if you want to chat about an idea!

I hope you are all well!  xo bjb

-- Dear Colleagues. I write to invite you into the Slag Glass City. We launched on Friday, and we have most of the kinks worked out. So far the response has been splendid. Please visit and take a walk around!

www.slagglasscity.org

or 

www.slagglasscity.com

[Both addresses go to the same place.]

Creative Writing Folks (including any of you who do creative work)--do let me know if you have nonfiction literary prose, first person city-themed scholarship, or hybrid work that you think would be a good fit for the journal. (We are national--all cities, not just Chicago--and as we are web-based we will publish continuously.) 

And EVERYONE, PLEASE encourage your artist and writer friends to submit urban-focused prose and/or visual-media work. The guidelines are on the site.  We have so much room to grow right now, so really, I'm open to considering just about anything of quality, as long as it links to the journal mission. [Current students cannot submit, but alums are welcome.]

If you are a social media person [and if you are not, please ignore] do spread word, if you feel so moved. However, one heads up--the site is linking better on Facebook if done from one of the individual essays rather than from the home page. This is a tech problem that is on my non-emergency list of things to fix, but for now the home page links without a picture, but individual essays post WITH images. You'll see that images are key in the Slag Glass City, so spreading word via the SHARE buttons on individual essay pages is at this point better. 

Thanks Everyone,and Happy December. 

best, bjb

[Teresa Puente]

Awesome project Mona.

So happy to hear the DePaul fellows are continuing as thought leaders.

Teresa

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