What a fantastic event the 41st Annual Literary Arts Festival was! Last Thursday afternoon, we were transported into different worlds through each others’ words, both from student award-winners and from the featured writer, Layli Long Soldier.
Thanks to all involved: the presenters, the participants, everyone who submitted writing, everyone who served as judges, the student volunteers, the hosts for the event, and the event organizers.
It would be great if anyone who participated or attended would leave a comment here to share what stood out to you, what you loved, what moved you, what the event motivated you to write, or anything else that you took away with you from the event.
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Download this year’s poster, designed by City Tech student Evelyn Ng.
City Tech’s 41st Annual Literary Arts Festival Featuring award-winning poet Layli Long Soldier, author of Whereas and readings & performances by City Tech students
For more info: Megan Behrent mbehrent@citytech.cuny.edu Sponsored by: Coordinated Undergraduate Education (CUE), City Tech Student Government Association, New York City College of Technology
We want to hear your voice, your story, your words!
Please submit writing in any genre: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, speeches, journalism, multimodal work, photo essays, videos, animation, spoken-word performances, and more. All creative work is welcome!
Submission Guidelines
Written Work: 1,000 words maximum; Videos/Performance Art should be between 10 seconds and 5 minutes.
To submit your work, please visit the City Tech Literary Arts Festival OpenLab Website Submissions Guidelines page
You will be asked to fill out a form and upload your written work. Do not include your name in the submission attachment.
For large files or videos, please include a URL link or send your work to CityTechLAF@gmail.com.
Award categories include: the Adolphus Lee Poetry Award, the Charles Matusik Fiction Award, the Kay-Hirsch Literary Criticism Award, the Michele Forsten Advocacy Award, the Walter-Scanlon Creative Non-Fiction Award, the Aaron Barlow Journalism Award, and the Mary Nilles Multimodal Writing Award.
Competition winners receive monetary awards and a possible reading at the Literary Arts Festival, a virtual event to be held on on March 24th at 4:30 p.m.
For more information: Megan Behrent: mbehrent@citytech.cuny.edu
Layli Long Soldier is an Oglala Lakota poet, writer, feminist and activist. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the full-length collection Whereas (2017), winner of the National Books Critics Circle award and a finalist for the National Book Award. She has also won the National Artist Fellowship from the Arts and Cultures Foundation, the Whiting Writer’s Award, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. In 2012, her participatory installation, Whereas We Respond, was featured on the Pine Ridge Reservation. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Reading of Whereas and Discussion on the Whiting Foundation:
Interview: The Freedom of Real Apologies
An interview on Krista Tippet’s On Being. In this show, available as an interview transcript or a podcast, Layli Long Soldier discusses pieces from her book WHEREAS written in response to the 2009 congressional resolution of apology to Native Americans. Long Soldier states:
“First of all what motivated me to even respond to the apology was the delivery. So that’s the heart of it — or, I should say, the non-delivery of the apology.”
The interview also discusses how the poet integrated personal stories of apology, her search for justice, and the importance of being heard.
