Dear CTW community –
Hope you had an amazing and refreshing summer! We at City Tech Writer are excited to look ahead to another year of working with student writers from all disciplines and bringing your perspectives to the attention of the wider world.
First, we’re excited to share with you Volume 19, which came out at the VERY end of Spring 2024.
Rebuilt from scratch, this new iteration of CTW’s website features student work, along with accompanying images and audio versions for increased accessibility. Throughout, supplementary videos also offer guides for student discussion and response to the works in this volume. Additionally, this issue boasts a few new firsts:
-Winners of the first City Tech Writer creative writing competition, in which entrants were challenged to engage with a prior year’s entry. Congratulations, Angelica Tellez and Daniel Levin!
-An audio adaptation of the student-written play “The Haymarket Trial,” about the seminal 1886 trial of anarchists in Chicago. This adaptation incorporates sound effects and AI-generated voices for an immersive aural experience.
-A visual adaptation of Cristian Meza’s wrenching poem, “A Trip To The Supermarket”
We’re also pleased to open up submissions for the 2025 edition of City Tech Writer, which will welcome work from Spring or Fall 2024. We’d love to have more talented writers join this year’s issue! Please read the guidelines (available in the Openlab site menu) and submit at this link. Once you submit the form, the confirmation page will show you a Dropbox file request where you can upload your entry.
Happy writing! We’re excited to hear what you have to say.
