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Massive Update... maybe

Wed, 06/03/2009 - 14:30 — johnso73

So, I've been giving love to the um... backend of this site far more regularly than to the whole 'content generation' aspect. Thems the breaks, I suppose, when time is limited.

But, lucky for the interweb, that doesn't mean I've not been listening to or reading about interesting things. Plus, have a few bits of good news to share about myself, too.

I'll try to clip off the easy things here.

  • On May 1st, Guernica published my short story, Anaphylaxis (yeah, the one that I'm now interested in exploring as a collaborative text). They are a tremendous magazine, with lots of really well written and smart content. Why they published me, I couldn't tell you. I recommend checking them out, not just for my story, but for blogs by people like Robert Reich. (A point of pride to say I shared a venue with him, even an email newsletter.) Esquire also named them as one of the top five places for fiction online.

    So: Yay for me. Also, was awarded a Sappenfield Fellowship from the Universtiy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for general admiration of my work. Also, received a Teaching Assistant position for next year.

  • Though I haven't created the link yet, I installed a wiki to this site. It is named theHIVE@impovArt and can be found and read and written on here. The goal, in short, is to provide another point of collaboration on the fiction, as well as serve as a reference for characters, places, plot points, etc., for writers interested in contributing.
  • This is a big one, which really deserves it's own post. I was on the wonderful 716:fine art podcast [link to that episode, also available on iTunes] a few weeks back. I had the opportunity to talk about collaborative digital visual rhetoric and gameplay, as embodied by the excellent Layer Tennis. Listen to it and enjoy. And subscribe to that podcast and the FEED Magazine PDF podcast from 716: fine art for some great design work.

    I'll write more about this... soon.

    Things not covered, yet.

  • New cream city review is out/beautiful. Haven't updated the site, yet, though.
  • ccr will now be handling electronic submissions thanks to CLMP, Devin Emke, and UWM.
  • Starting to get close to a summer ARG project for the newspaper I work at - should be funfunfun!
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