Downtown Brooklyn: Call for Submissions -- Issue 27
Poets & writers!
Please submit poems and/or fiction for issue #27
of
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN
the literary magazine of the LIU Brooklyn
English Department
Submission deadline: 8 December 2017!
Who can submit work? Students, faculty & staff at LIU Brooklyn. This includes
alumni & former employees of LIU Brooklyn, as well as Visiting Writers
in the Creative Writing MFA program & writers who read in the English
Department’s Voices of the Rainbow reading series. We consider poetry
&/or fiction in a wide variety of traditional as well as experimental
forms.
More info: http://www.bit.ly/DTBLIU.
How to submit? Save
your submission as a single Word document (not a separate file for each
piece) & send it as an attachment to wayne.berninger@liu.edu.
The first page of your document should be a cover letter. Include your name as
you’d like it to appear, your e-mail address, & a short bio statement,
in which you describe how you are connected to LIU Brooklyn. Are you a student?
Say whether you are undergrad or grad, what your major or degree program is,
& your expected date of graduation. If you are an alum, tell us what
your major was & what degree you earned, as well as the year you
graduated. Are you faculty or former faculty? Tell us your department, what
your title is or was & what you teach or taught. Are you a staff member
or former staff member? Tell us your title & what kind of work you do
or did. If relevant, list recent publications, productions, or performances of
your work. You will receive confirmation by e-mail that we have received your
submissions. We will then notify as to acceptance ASAP, and the new issue
should come out in time for the start of the Fall 2018 semester.
Read Issue 26: https://downtownbrooklyn26.tumblr.com/.
Patrick Horrigan: Reading
Professor Patrick E. Horrigan (English) will give a reading of new work as part of the COOL STORIES performance series on Friday, October 27th @ 7pm, at El Barrio's Artspace PS 109.215 East 99th Street
Manhattan
Admission is FREE!
Barbara Henning: Upcoming Reading
Professor Barbara Henning (English) will be reading with fellow poets Cliff Fyman and John Godfrey.Sunday, October 22, 2017
4:30 PM
Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street
Manhattan
Lewis Warsh: Upcoming Reading
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| photo: Dan Wonderly |
Professor Lewis Warsh (English / Creative Writing) will read with Cedar Sigo at the Poetry Project.
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
8:00 PM
More info.
Carol Allen: New Book
Professor Carol Allen (English) is the author of the new book Journeys and Journals: Women's Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, December 2016). From the publisher's website: "Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by African American women, novels which explore fully the psychic, economic, and spiritual impact of mass migratory movements."
More info.
Srividhya Swaminathan: New Book
Professor Srividhya Swaminathan (English) is co-editor of a new volume. The Cinematic Eighteenth Century: History, Culture, and Adaptation is a collection of essays that focus on the broad variety of interpretations of the eighteenth century onto film and television. The essays push the concept of adaptation in film studies to new theoretical models and examine both the straightforward text to film works, like the lucrative Jane Austen franchise, and appropriations of the eighteenth-century milieu, like the Caribbean pirate narrative and the African slave institution. Co-edited with Steven W. Thomas (Wagner College), this collection seeks to break new ground in the crossover between film and literary studies.More info.
Barbara Henning: New Poems
Patrick Horrigan: Actors With Accents
Professor Patrick E. Horrigan (English) and co-host Eduardo Leanez invite you to the next evening of
ACTORS WITH ACCENTS
An evening of monologues, scenes, songs, comedy, drama, and wall-to-wall accents.
Friday, October 6, 2017 @ 7PM
Friday, October 6, 2017 @ 7PM
Teatro SEA
107 Suffolk St.
Manhattan
Admission is FREE but donations are always welcome.
Deborah Mutnick: Humanities New York Grant Recipient
Professor Deborah Mutnick (English) has been awarded an action grant from Humanities New York for the Souls of Lefferts Community Writing / Publishing Project.Here's an overview of the project:
Souls of Lefferts combines black-and-white photographs with life stories of subjects documenting rapid change in a Brooklyn neighborhood. Prospect Lefferts Gardens' working-class, multiracial, predominantly immigrant West Indian community is threatened by unfettered, high-rise development, rising rents and prices, and gentrification by new, mostly white commercial and residential tenants. This process of gentrification was already underway when Courtney Mooney started photographing Prospect Lefferts Gardens (PLG) residents in 2015. Joined by Deborah Mutnick in early 2016, the project has so far produced hundreds of photos and more than a dozen oral histories. It has involved LIU Brooklyn students in interviewing, transcribing, and writing narratives. Most recently, students participated in the first round of community publishing, working with PLG residents to publish their writing. Two new series of community writing workshops will be held in the community in fall 2017 and spring 2018 culminating in the production of two more booklets to be archived in the Brooklyn Collection at the Brooklyn Public Library.
More info.
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