Two of my favorite orgs working together to provide a residency program for YOU! Deadline November 14. Details below. -Mia

Cool fellowship opportunity – details here www.mediaideation.org/applications-open and below. -Mia

America Abroad is looking for stories about entrepreneurs and startups. Details and contact info below. -Mia

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America Abroad's turning an eye to the economy this month, and specifically towards entrepreneurs and startups. If you have a good story to tell about someone who has (or hasn't) overcome obstacles in opening a store, staying in the US, or starting up a business, we want to hear it. In particular, we're looking for stories that have not just a personal element, but also get at the policy hurdles and red tape entrepreneurs have to deal with. Please get in touch at acvaldez@americaabroadmedia.org.

The latest from UnionDocs – details on September/October events below. -Mia

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Images of Asian Music and At Sea with Peter Hutton

Sunday, September 16 at 7:30pm

$9 suggested donation. 

Peter Hutton’s unforgettable films, typically shot and exhibited on 16mm, often portray landscapes and cityscapes from around the world. Here we present his sublime, At Sea, which overviews the life cycle of a container ship (recently awarded the top spot on Film Comment’s Best of the Decade: Avant-Garde list). Proceeding this we will screen Hutton’s Images of Asian Music, which recalls his time as a US Merchant Marine in Southeast Asia in the early 1970′s.

Running Stumbled: A benefit screening for John Maringouin

Saturday, September 22 at 7:30pm

Sliding scale donation $10-20

As the film community rallies in support of beloved documentary filmmaker, John Maringouin in his ongoing battle against lung cancer, we will screen Running Stumbled to benefit the director and support his recovery. In order to help raise funds for his surgery, all revenues from the box office will be given directly to the John Maringouin Surgery Fund (click the link to donate now before campaign officially ends September 4th). Maringouin cites his inspiration for Running Stumbled to films such as the Maysles brothers’ Grey Gardens, Bela Tarr’s Sátántangó and Harmony Korine’s Julien Donkey-Boy. It premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival and shocked audiences at CineVegas.

Prologue with Raed Rafei

Sunday, September 30 at 7:30pm

$9 suggested donation.

The current furor over dramatic shifts that continue throughout the Middle East and North Africa often obscure the significant political protest and social actions that have set the stage for contemporary revolutionary fervor. Prologue is a film that offers audiences imagined yet intimate portraits of young activists in 1974. The film collapses time and offers testimony as an aesthetic project by giving young Lebanese activists a platform to tell the story of their forebears, and reveals a complex narrative of agitation, direct action and rebellion. The film toggles between past and present, imagined history and reality, to create a platform that engenders a dialogue with the past, an action that is often marked as taboo in the Lebanese context.

My Brooklyn with Kelly Anderson

Sunday, October 7 at 7:30pm

Suggested donation $9

 My Brooklyn follows director Kelly Anderson’s journey, as a Brooklyn gentrifier, to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood. The film documents the redevelopment of Fulton Mall, a bustling African-American and Caribbean commercial district that – despite its status as the third most profitable shopping area in New York City – is maligned for its inability to appeal to the affluent residents who have come to live around it. As a hundred small businesses are replaced by high rise luxury housing and chain retail, Anderson uncovers the web of  corporations, politicians and secretive public-private partnerships that drive seemingly natural neighborhood change. The film’s ultimate question is increasingly relevant on a global scale: who has a right to live in cities and determine their future?

 If you could help us spread the word about these events in any of your publications, we would really appreciate it. For more information about these events, please check out the linked titles. If you do end up publishing something about the events, please let us know!

Thanks,

Caitlin Dronen

Suicide has to be one of the most difficult subjects to cover as a journalist. A couple of great pieces come to mind:

This radio piece by Jake Warga: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5031520

And this documentary by Eric Steel: http://www.thebridge-themovie.com/new/index.html (filmed in part by some good friends from jschool)

The Dart Center is offering a FREE training on covering this issue. More information here http://dartcenter.org/covering-suicide-workshop and below. -Mia

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Journalists don’t often imagine themselves faced with covering a suicide. But in the last year alone suicides of celebrities and public figures, college students and teens, soldiers and veterans, have challenged reporters, news organizations and the public alike to make sense of what happened, how it might have been prevented, and what best newsroom practices should be.

The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma invites you to attend a FREE professional training workshop on covering suicide September 21-22 in Philadelphia.

This workshop — the first of its kind — will feature local and national mental health researchers and policy experts, award-winning journalists and suicide prevention advocates to address the challenging topic of suicide. It is geared towards journalists on a range of beats, including:

– Criminal justice

– Military and veterans affairs

– Education and youth

– Health

– Obituaries

– Investigative and special-projects teams

This workshop is also designed for editors, producers and other newsroom leaders, with five spaces reserved for college journalists and/or campus media advisors.

Speakers include national and local public health and clinical experts from Columbia, Harvard, Temple and Florida State; trainers from the Poynter Institute and award-winning reporters with New York magazine, Salon.com, Rolling Stone, WHYY and beyond.

Workshop participants will be eligible to apply for $500-$1500 reporting grants being offered by the Dart Center and Scattergood Foundation.

 

Program and registration details can be found at: http://dartcenter.org/covering-suicide-workshop

Feel free to forward this invitation to colleagues who may be interested.

Questions? Email me directly at kate.black@dartcenter.org

This program is made possible by funding from the Scattergood Foundation for Behavioral Health and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

I'm not too familiar with this organization but it looks interesting and they take submissions of all kinds – print, audio, photography, etc. Check them out! Details below. – Mia

http://carte-blanche.org/submissions/

SUBMISSIONS

Guidelines for contributors

At carte blanche we believe there is more than one way to tell a story. Our mandate is to provide a venue for narrative of all forms from fiction and nonfiction, to poetry and photo essays.

carte blanche is published twice a year, in the spring and the fall.

How to submit

We accept original, previously unpublished submissions through our  online submission form ONLY. See carte-blanche.submishmash.com/submit for instructions. If you have problems using our submission form, please send us an email

Deadlines

Spring issue – March 1st (May publication)
Fall issue – September 15th (November publication)

Our reviewing period is in the few weeks following each deadline date. We do not accept new submissions during this period. Come back after our issue launch to submit for the next issue.

How to format

Text should be in Word and double-spaced (except poetry). We like it if you use Verdana 10 pt as your font.

The first page of each submission must include the author’s name, the name of the piece, its length, the category of submission, and a short bio. Each page should be numbered and include a header or footer with the name of the piece and author name. If you are submitting more than one piece, please upload each poem, story or file separately. Make it easy for us!

Simultaneous submissions: We accept simultaneous submissions. Please indicate on your cover page if you are sending your piece elsewhere and notify us immediately if it is accepted somewhere else.

Rights: We ask for first world serial rights and the right to archive your work on the website. Copyright reverts to the author upon publication.

Payment: carte blanche pays a modest honorarium per submission. We hope to increase the amount in the future.

What to send

Fiction and Nonfiction

We like narrative: a story that moves from some kind of a beginning to some kind of an end, be it short fiction, memoir, personal essay or literary journalism. If it’s well written and tells a story, we’ll consider it.

Word limit: 3500 words; maximum of two prose submissions per author per issue; each submission must be on a separate document and uploaded separately.

Poetry

Send us your best work.  From odes and haikus to free verse and sonnets, we welcome poems in any form.  Limit: 3 poems per person per submission round. Please upload each poem separately.

Translations

We accept English translations of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction written originally in French. If possible, please include the original work on which the translation is based. If we like your piece and choose to publish it, you will be required to provide proof of permission from the copyright holder of the original work to translate and publish the translation. Obtaining permission can take time, so please do so before you submit!

Graphic fiction

Along with your work, please include a brief overview of what the piece is about. If your work is selected for publication, we will contact you for a high-res version.  Final submissions must be in JPG, GIF, or PNG format.

Photography

Tell a story in 12 photos or fewer. Together, your photos should create a narrative – whether abstract or concrete – and have something to say.

Send a Word or PDF doc with your work pasted in it and include a statement, captions, and any other relevant text. If your work is selected for publication, we will contact you for a high-res version of the photo essay. Final submissions must be in JPG or PNG format.

Audio

Tell us a story in sound. This can include soundscape, documentary, spoken word, author readings, comedy, experimental, etc. Audio pieces do not need to contain words (although they can!) but they should have a

narrative progression, i.e. a beginning, middle, and end. 5 minute max per piece, submissions should be mp3 or wav files.

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Now, time to use our handy online submission form!

Once you have registered, created an account, and uploaded your work, you can come back to check your status. Our reviewing period is in the few weeks following each deadline date (once in the spring, once in the fall). Depending on when you submit, please allow enough time for us to process the submissions and make our decisions. During this period we will be closed for submissions. Come back after our issue launch to submit again for the next issue.

Please keep in mind that we are a largely volunteer organization and that we have limited resources and time. But we will look at your work. Promise.