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CTW 2022 cover art; exciting spring events!

CTW Vol. 17 logo, featuring Art Deco-style icon of pens and pencils crossing over one another against a field of stars.

Dear City Tech community–as the buds begin to reappear on tree branches and the sun starts to peek out a little more, I am thrilled to write with some updates about this year’s issue of City Tech Writer!

FIRST, I’d like to present this year’s winning banner art, courtesy of Communications Design student Amberly Lima! Amberly’s Art Deco-inspired logo captures the sense of possibility, combined with an appreciation of the past, that fuels so much of the writing in each volume of CTW. Just as last year’s issue featured a banner that (literally) took a leap forward in terms of design, we’re excited to bring Amberly’s fantastic design to life for Volume 17.

SECOND, this year’s issue will, for the first time, feature a short film and accompanying script: COMD student Alvaro Panozo’s “Airpods”! To celebrate this milestone, we will be holding a virtual screening and discussion of the scriptwriting process with Alvaro on Friday, April 8, at 11 AM! Register here for a fun discussion of how the written word guides filmmakers as they bring their visions to cinematic life. After signing up, you’ll see a confirmation page with a link to the event – please copy this down. (You’ll receive a follow up reminder with a link, too.)

THIRD, I am compiling audio, video, and/or written text from Asian faculty, staff, AND students who would like to discuss their experiences of discrimination during the pandemic, and/or their reflections on what it means to be Asian during this time. Narrating our experiences can be a powerful way to process trauma from hate-related incidents, or simply to just inform the broader public about the added stresses that have attended the rise in violence against AAPI.

Video, audio, and text will be compiled into a short documentary that will accompany a reflection on anti-Asian violence in this year’s CTW. We’ll screen this mini-doc at an event in May (date TBD).

If you’d like to participate or you know someone who does, please consider sending in your submission or forwarding the submission form: https://forms.gle/hD7YnBG1p1wct2bG6 Please know that you will have the option of either identifying yourself or remaining anonymous in the video.

FOURTH, if you are a finalist for inclusion in this year’s issue, you should have received an email from me with further details. As always, I am deeply grateful to all who submitted work, and it was difficult to make selections. If you didn’t make it in this year, please do not be discouraged! I hope you’ll consider participating in one of our Spring events and celebrating this year’s issue when it finally goes live.

Best,

Prof. Lucas Kwong
Editor, City Tech Writer Vol. 17

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CTW submissions: Now extended to Dec. 5!

Students and faculty–it’s been a long semester, and indeed, a long couple of years. To best serve the community under these circumstances, I’m extending the submissions deadline for City Tech Writer to Dec. 5. Once again, outstanding writing from any discipline is more than welcome–please submit at the “Submit” page of this website, where you’ll find a submission form and FAQ.

To get a sense of the kinds of work we publish, please peruse last year’s inaugural all-digital issue. CST instructor Atilio Barreda and I are excited to continue building on that milestone this year.

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Now accepting submission for Vol. 17 (2022)!

We’re back! Prof. Kwong, editor for City Tech Writer,  checking in. I wanted to let you know that, in its second year as an all-digital journal, City Tech Writer is still connecting our community with the written word.

Please submit excellent student writing (from any discipline) to City Tech Writer, Vol. 17, by uploading a Word document or PDF at openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/citytechwriter. 

 

The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2021.

 

City Tech Writer is a journal of outstanding student writing. STEM disciplines are especially encouraged to submit!

 

Please see last year’s issue and this video for more information! 


Best,


Professor Lucas Kwong

English Department

Editor, City Tech Writer

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CTW Webinar on Digital Publishing and Academic Relationships

This event, to be held on 5.31.21 from 3-5 pm, will feature writers from the latest issue of City Tech Writer, City Tech’s journal of outstanding student writing. Along with faculty who sponsored their work, writers will discuss developing their work from a classroom assignment to a published article. They’ll also discuss collaborating with other students, professors, and CTW editor Professor Lucas Kwong. We’ll hear readings of excerpts, host breakout groups, and have a larger Q and A session. Profs. Kwong and Atilio Barreda (Computer Systems Technology) will host.

2) Speakers will include student authors of selected entries (still TBD), the professors who sponsored those authors’ submissions, and Profs. Kwong and Barreda.

3) Attendees will learn about the digital publishing process and its dependence on thoughtful, collaborative scholarship. They’ll also learn how to build collaborative relationships with faculty, in order to translate research into published work. Finally, in being introduced to City Tech Writer, students will be encouraged to submit future work and join our community of writers.

Register here!

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New website coming soon!

Well, this page has looked a little lonely this year. Don’t let the silence fool you, though: a BIG update is on the way! We are looking forward to posting the first all-digital issue of CTW very soon.

In the meantime, submissions are now open for the 2022 edition of City Tech Writer. If you’re a sponsoring professor who has a great piece you’d like us to consider, please submit the piece here (Word doc or searchable text preferred): https://forms.gle/GnFhfjPTnhfe51bZA

Issue 16 coming very soon!

Professor Lucas Kwong

Editor, City Tech Writer

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City Tech Writer, Volume 16: Deadline EXTENDED to November 30

Dear City Tech community,

The deadline for submissions to this year’s issue of City Tech Writer has been extended to November 30. Keep your papers, essays, reports, poems, stories, and assorted verbal expressions coming!

Details below. Submission link here.

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Vol. 15 now available; submissions for Vol. 16 open!

Dear City Tech community,

It’s been a strange and unsettling year for all of us, but I am glad to announce that City Tech Writer has persevered. Our new issue, celebrating 15 years of outstanding student writing, is available in digital format on this Openlab site. Previous complete issues, as well as a sampler featuring the best of CTW since Vol. 1 in 2006, are also available. We hope to hold a double reception next year to commemorate both volume 15 and volume 16.

On the latter note, we’re proud to announce that we are now accepting submissions for Volume 16 of City Tech Writer!  We’re looking forward to populating its pages with your outstanding writing. If you’re a professor looking to sponsor a student’s piece, or you’re a student who has a submission, please consult the “Submissions FAQ” page and submit at the link. Please have a look at previous issues as well as the complete City Tech Writer Sampler above.

Thank you and enjoy!

Best,

Professor Kwong

Editor, City Tech Writer