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In the Cut : Call for Submissions
12:42 pm By Maegan La Mala · Linking Latinos|literature|Media · Comments Off
7 Jul 2011Note : I’m still figuring out my summer schedule & casa mala has company this week so posting will be slow/sporadic. Apologies in advance and thanks for your understanding. We are planning great things though!
This came in to our email. Not an endorsement but thought it was worth sharing.
Are you a Latino writer who is constantly thinking about the world — about how inspiring it is or how much you’d like to change it? Do your ideas turn into sultry stanzas or slam poems? Or maybe you fictionalize an entire world instead? Perhaps you like to write about your experiences or current events?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then we’re looking for you!
Bushwick Media and Straight Outta Bushwick Productions are looking submissions for their new online multimedia project, In the Cut. In the Cut wants to publish Latino writers who have a fiery passion, a creative voice, and a distinctive perspective.
If you are interested, please submit your work to Elizabeth at BushwickPA (at) gmail (dot) com!
This is your chance to get your perspective out there and be part of what will be a ground-breaking new online magazine!
DETAILS
Title: In the Cut | See. Hear. Read. Do.
Description: A cross between Charlie Rose and the Village Voice
Components: Digital Magazine + Web Show
Frequency: Quarterly for Issues, Varies for other dynamic content on the website
Sections Searching for Submissions:
ficción (fiction)
poesía (poetry)
entrevistas (interviews)
exposición/exposiciones (exposés)
arte (arts)
opiniones (op-ed)
sátira (political/social satire)
la salud (health)
comida + cocina (food and cooking)
crítica social (social commentary)
la vida cotidiana (life skills)
la feminidad (women’s issues)
música (music)
reseñas (reviews) of:
books or
film/video or
restaurants or
food/cooking or
music or
visual arts or
theater/performing arts
COMPENSATION: No cash because we are struggling writers, too. The joy and satisfaction of practicing your craft and sharing your opinions.
Lunes Libro : Mi Barrio by Robert Renteria
10:21 am By Maegan La Mala · Books|literature|youth · 7 Comments
4 Jul 2011
Note : This review will be translated into Spanish in a separate post and my hija, 13 year old Mapu, will also be posting her own review since she is the target audience for this comic.
This review was supposed to come out last week and I didn’t want to write it. I struggled with it, holding the following dicho/saying in my head, “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.”. That dicho goes just as well with the graphic novel, Mi Barrio, by Robert Rentería, published by Smarter Comics.
Renteria’s story is a common meme : boy grows up in the barrio/hood surrounded by unsavory people, does some unsavory things himself, and escapes through the military and good old fashioned capitalist hard work, becoming rich and successful and even buying his mami a car so she doesn’t have to take the awful Los Angeles bus.
NYC : VivirLatino’s Mala in Resurrection, A Night of Poetry, Performance & Art, Easter Eve.
8:18 am By Maegan La Mala · Arts|literature|Media|New York City|Puerto Rico · Comments Off
17 Apr 2011
I am honored and blessed to be a part of this event and those who come can be blessed to by a most divine power.
Saturday April 23, 2011 from 6 to Midnight,
Performances start at 8pm
$5.00 DONATION
CASH BAR
RESURRECTION will be an evening of multimedia performance poetry by New York City’s Latin@ avant-garde elite, incorporating spoken word, dance, music, visual effects and art exhibit.
Presented by The Organization of Puerto Rican Artists, inc. O.P.Art
in collaboration with The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center and HISPANIC PANIC!
At The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center
107 Suffolk Street, New York NY
Room #309 and Teatro Kabayito
Between Rivington and Delancey,
F, J or M train to Delancey/Essex.
PRESENTING: POETRY, PERFORMANCE
Aravind Adyanthaya
J Skye Cabrera
Lola von Miramar (Larry La Fountain-Stokes)
Maegan La Mala Ortiz
Carlos Manuel Rivera
Vanessa Martir
Charlie Vazquez/Steven Maldonado
***WARNING*** THIS SHOW WILL CONTAIN ADULT THEMES
VISUAL ART EXHIBIT AND SALE
Showing recent works:
Everardus Bogardus , Andricel Yanela Peña,
Giovanni Caravaggio, Pepe Villegas, Rafael Rosario-Laguna,
Luis Carle, and Peter Madero III
The Organization of Puerto Rican Artists, Inc. (O.P.Art). Is a non-profit organization sponsored by The New York Foundation for the Arts, and is a 501(c)(3) Tax-exempt organization.
www.op-art.org
Book Giveaway: In The Time Of The Butterflies
8:32 am By BiancaLaureano · Arts|Books|Culture|Dominican Republic|literature · 7 Comments
14 Mar 2011
On Monday March 21, 2011 at 7 PM EST Dominican author Julia Alvarez, author of In The Time of the Butterflies, will be interviewed by Haitian author Edwidge Danticat (Krik? Krak!; The Farming Of Bones). As part of announcing and participating in this virtual event (unless you live in Miami then you can witness the interview in 3D at Books & Books), Algonquin Books has offered 3 VL readers a copy of Alvarez’s book.
If you are not familiar with the book In The Time of the Butterflies, it is a historical novel of the Maribal Sisters, known as Las Mariposas, during the Trujillo regime. It has been turned into a film starring Salma Hayek, Edward James Olmos, and Marc Anthony. I’ve used this text in teaching from Latina testimonios, women, art, and culture, to women and organizing. The text is also extremely accessible for younger readers.
As we usually do with our giveaway’s at VL, the first three folks that leave a comment and have a valid email address for us to reach them, receive the texts! Algonquin Books will ship internationally, so those of you who have not been able to participate in some giveaways because of your location, this giveaway is for you!
You may watch the live webcast Monday March 21 at 7PM at the Algonquin Book Club site. We are told that you may also sign in to chat with other viewers and there is also a reading guide if you choose to use this text for a book club.
HISPANIC PANIC!: PUNK – an evening of Latin words and strange music
10:25 am By Maegan La Mala · Arts|Culture|Linking Latinos|literature|Lo Que Hay|Music|New York City · Comments Off
2 Mar 2011
Wednesday, March 30th,
7:30PM – 9:30PM
At Nowhere – 322 E 14th St (1st/2nd)21+, FREE
New York’s most avant-garde Latino reading series peeks over the edge this month with a reading dedicated to PUNK and the various meanings it has come to embrace. As a popular music movement in the Mexican “desmadre” scene and as a very top-secret phenomenon in Cuba, punk music has seduced Latinos all around the globe.
Grab a beer, kick back, and listen to the peculiar perspectives of Dan Lopez, J Skye Cabrera, Sam J Miller, Charlie Vázquez, Roberto Plena Irizarry and the inimitable East Village performance art originator Ms. Penny Arcade herself for an unforgettable evening of words and music. Try to beat that!
Facebook event page: http://tinyurl.com/6fspjup
Information: http://www.firekingpress.com
Image Credit: Antony Zito
Lunes Libro : Best of PANIC! Book Available Now
12:36 pm By Maegan La Mala · Books|GLBT|literature|New York City · Comments Off
13 Dec 2010
Regular readers of VivirLatino will know that not only am I Editor here but I am also a poet. For two years now, I have proudly participated in the Hispanic PANIC! Reading series, housed at Nowhere here in NYC and and curated by author and friend to VL, Charlie Vázquez.
Charlie has done such an amazing job at bringing together talented, diverse word artists of and for the queer community that he decided to put some of their work, as heard during the literary series, in a book!
Released just in time for the holidays, the anthology features over thirty new voices and yes, mine is included.
You can get your own copy and one for someone you love here.
Hispanic PANIC! Unleashes It’s Talent in NYC
6:39 am By Maegan La Mala · Culture|GLBT|literature|New York City · 1 Comment
1 Oct 2010
I needed to take a day off from VivirLatino because Hispanic PANIC! was so good. Charlie Vazquez is a curator of writers and souls and he worked his magic again on Wednesday night when he hosted Hispanic PANIC! at Nowhere.
Cristy Road jumped the evening off by reading an excerpt from her soon to be released graphic novel, SPIT AND PASSION, a coming of age story unlike any other. I cannot wait to read the finished product and learn more about how a queer Cubana in Miami obsessed with Green Day comes to terms with it all.
VL’s Maegan la Mala at Hispanic PANIC! Tonite in NYC
12:12 pm By Maegan La Mala · Events|literature|New York City · 2 Comments
29 Sep 2010
For the third time, yours truly, VL’s own managing editor, Maegan la Mamita Mala Ortiz will be reading at Hispanic PANIC!, a reading series featuring queer Latino writers hand picked by Charlie Vazquez.
That’s happening tonite
8 pm sharp at Nowhere, 322 e. 14th st, NYC.
Featuring: Orlando Ferrand, Alicia Anabel Santos, Aaron Powell, Maegan La Mala Ortiz, Miguel Angeles, and Cristy Road.
This will be my third PANIC! and I am so excited. Charlie, who has been featured here before does a magical job of curating (and sharing his own work). The readers are always amazing and the audience spectacular.
For those who haven’t attended a PANIC! reading before, you can read all about it in this piece that was featured in Viva!, the Latino pullout section of the New York Daily News. The feature article was written by fellow PANIC! writer Erasmo Guerra.
Hope to see some of you there.
Call for Submissions : aaduna … a timeless exploration into words and images
10:41 am By Maegan La Mala · literature · 1 Comment
20 Sep 2010
This is a project that yours truly is intimately involved in. Please consider submitting.
aaduna seeks to uncover new and emerging creative visionaries, especially people of color, in the realm of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and the visual arts
Submission Philosophy:
aaduna seeks to broaden the current online paradigms associated with publishing works by emerging writers and artists especially for people of color. From a multicultural viewpoint, aaduna comprehends the fact that while cultures and ethnicities tend to exist separate from each other, that development is a political, social, and contrived construct. Therefore, aaduna seeks to erase such artificial distinctions, and welcomes submissions from emerging writers and visual artists whose work goes beyond expectations based solely on physicality or cultural characteristics. While aaduna is primarily interested in providing a viable publishing platform for people of color, the world is huge, and there is a widening audience for other artists whose creativity reflects voices that are divergent; voices that are powerful, and voices committed to change.
The aaduna editorial policy is committed to presenting work in the manner and style that reflects how the creative person behind the work wants to see that work presented to the public, realizing that the most effective judge of any work’s quality and import ultimately rests within the marketplace. It is within this reality that aaduna will be a conduit for providing the public with works that are stimulating, enjoyable, insightful, open for vigorous discussion, and in some measure, a catalyst to embolden the intellect, imagination, and human spirit.
aaduna does not provide honorarium. However, aaduna will work with each published artist to build an appropriate platform that may lead to a wide variety of market opportunities.
Aaduna si dofa rey. (The world is huge.)
Isabel Allende Receives Chilean Literature Award with Some Controversy
7:17 am By Maegan La Mala · Chile|literature|Women · 2 Comments
3 Sep 2010
Earlier today I received a text message letting me know that author Isabel Allende had been given this year’s National Chilean Literature Prize. She is only the fourth woman to be given the award since its creation in 1942.
And yet her recognition isn’t without controversy. Some critics have labeled her writing, ranging from memoirs to short stories to novels and even a cookbook, as being too commercial and not “literary” enough.
Hola!
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