Cross Bronx Online Journal

What do James Baldwin, Cynthia Ozick, Paddy Chayevsky, Richard Avedon, Samuel Clemens, Stanley Kubrick, Herman Melville, Joe Conzo, and Edgar Allen Poe have in common? They all site the Bronx as influential to their development as an artist.


The Bronx Council on the Arts is pleased to announce the launching of the new digital literary journal Cross Bronx. The online publication will encompass the best writing and digital art with a primary focus on Bronx writers and artists. The journal will be published three times per year, beginning in April, and feature BCA’s award-winning artists alongside commissioned works. Submissions from both emerging and established writers and artists are encouraged. The deadline is Monday, March 3, 2008. The premiere issue will be available Monday, March 31, 2008.

BCA is seeking electronic submissions of previously unpublished short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and digital photography/art. Preference will be given to Bronx artists or artist who site the Bronx as influential to their work. Submitted work must adhere to the following guidelines:

Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction
Submissions limited to 8,500 words or approximately 20 double-spaced pages.
email: prosesubmit@bronxarts.org

Poetry
Submissions of up to three (3) poems per author
email: poetrysubmit@bronxarts.org

Original Digital Art/Photography
Up to three (3) submissions per artist, with a maximum file size of 100 megabytes.
email: artphotosubmit@bronxarts.org

Criticism or Artist interviews
Submit a short proposal, 250 words or less, for consideration before submitting the actual work.
email: sonya@bronxarts.org

When submitting Include your full name, mailing address, and e-mail address in the body of the e-mail. All text pages must be titled and numbered with one-inch margins, double-spaced and typed in 12-point font.

Send questions relating to submissions to sonya@bronxarts.org.

About the editors

Sonya Chung is the 2007 Bronx Writers' Center Literary Fellow. Sonya’s short fiction and essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Crab Orchard Review, Sonora Review, Cream City Review, and BOMB Magazine, among others. She is also the recipient of the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, a Pushcart Prize Nomination, and a Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Finalist award. She has recently completed her first novel and is at work on a second.

Helen Dano is the 2007 Bronx Writers' Center Literary Fellow. Helen is the author of the Hawaiian childrens' book, The Little Makana (Bess Press, Honolulu). She was born in Hawaii and grew up in Kalihi, a western suburb of Honolulu, and then moved further west to what was then the sugarcane town of Waipahu, the subject of her work-in-progress, 'Aina: Waipahu, a narrative poem.