Barrie Jean Borich

Writer. Teacher. Chicagoan. DePaul & RWW faculty. Author of APOCALYPSE, DARLING & BODY GEOGRAPHIC, editor of Slag Glass City. • Cities. Bodies. Bikes. Books. •

[Barrie Jean Borich @BOOKofBJB]

Thanks to everyone who helped us SAY GAY at Gerber/Hart Library and Archives last night. If you’re in Chicago please come see the exhibit—available whenever the library is open until late August. @montesireland @GerberHart

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Read this Block Club Chicago story and just try to stay away from the Do Say Gay launch on Fri night, 7 June. Featuring exhibits on Banned Books and special guest @amesthehawk's revival of Coyote Pete—presenting their own version of drag story hour! https://t.co/Jnsm5Tzg2I

[Barrie Jean Borich @BOOKofBJB]

Next Week in Chicago—my @Depaul students launch their DO SAY GAY exhibit work on banned books and LGBTQ+ Freedoms @GerberHart Library & Archives.

[Barrie Jean Borich @BOOKofBJB]

This May Day in the @SlagGlassCity, we honor the working & blooming metropolis. My student editors chose 30 nonfiction artists from our archives to feature at this anniversary event in person & on Zoom—sharing work about & from cities all over the world. #nonfiction.

[Barrie Jean Borich @BOOKofBJB]

If you are on the DePaul Lincoln Park Campus in Chicago on Tuesday, April 30th, please stop by Richardson Library to see my Do Say Gay students display their public humanities one-page projects on Banned Books and Queer Archive Finds. Free! Fun! Buttons! Come One/ Come All!

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My excerpt from the new craft anthology THE NEXT DRAFT, edited by @BrendaMiller31 —just dropped today in Lit Hub! #Nonfiction @PLU_RWW

[Literary Hub @lithub]

What does it mean to invite surprise into your writing? @BOOKofBJB explores the art of bafflement.
https://t.co/qAINZ6dqu5

[The Ohio State University Press @ohiostatepress]

OSU Press authors are at it again today at #AWP! Three panels have OSU family members on them this morning and we hope to see you there!

9-10:15, Rm 3501AB
The Fine Art of Craft Talking w/@BOOKofBJB

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#AWP24 #AWP2024

[Barrie Jean Borich @BOOKofBJB]

Sat Feb 10 at 9AM, the final day of #AW2024, I join my dearest co-faculty from @PLU_RWW to celebrate our new anthology of craft essays edited by Brenda Miller, all culled from the RWW summer residency morning talks. Moderated by Rick Barot.

@BarotRick @BrendaMiller31

[Barrie Jean Borich @BOOKofBJB]

The first #AWP24 panel I'm on is happening on Thursday, Feb 8th at 1:45. Come join these dazzling wonderfuls—Julie Marie Wade, Jen Soriano, Marco Seiryū Wilkinson, & Constance Collier-Mercado—as we talk about making hybrid intersectional #nonfiction.

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BJB at the AWP #1
@SlagGlassCity will be paneling day 1 of #AWP2024, Come hear my trusty contributing editor Tim Hillegonds talk about writing the city on the themed magazine panel, Thurs. Feb 8th at 10:35 AM, joining a lovely crew of editors of little mags with particular focus.

[Univ Nebraska Press @UnivNebPress]

A cartography of high literary order, @BOOKofBJB’s BODY GEOGRAPHIC turns personal history into an inspired reflection on the points where place and person intersect and where dislocation means finding oneself.

Save 50% during our Holiday Sale: https://t.co/5rYYu84HOl

[Barrie Jean Borich @BOOKofBJB]

It’s been a minute since I’ve been notabled so I’m happy to see this listing in Best American Essays 2022. From @_conjunctions. Robert Atwan has been kind to my work as a writer & editor since my 1st mention in (gasp) 1999 so I’m pleased to be listed again. #nonfiction #cnf

[Barrie Jean Borich @BOOKofBJB]

TONIGHT! Please come if you can to check out Jen Soriano's great new book. Note that preregistration is required here: https://t.co/h1zJfr5YtX

[Barrie Jean Borich @BOOKofBJB]

Coming soon, in Chicago. @LionsWrite /Jen Soriano’s book is gorgeous and the conversation will be too!

https://t.co/7lPXJ37QxW

[Barrie Jean Borich @BOOKofBJB]

@THEsharvey A one session mini-class with excerpts from Ander Monson, Julie Marie Wade, Gabrielle Civil, Victoria Chang, Sheila O’Connor.

[Barrie Jean Borich @BOOKofBJB]

I love these pics! Thank you to ALL in this class on nonfiction hybrids who persevered despite loud air conditioning noise and repeated interruptions by a wasp. (The 🐝 here is not visible because we trapped it under a glass—and released when we were done.) #NonFiction

[Pacific Lutheran University @PLUNEWS]

Congrats to the Rainier Writing Workshop (@PLU_RWW) on another successful residency in the books! The 10-day intensive concluded with final workshops, classes and beautiful readings from this year’s graduates. #LutesCenterCommunity

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@PLUNEWS @PLU_RWW https://t.co/ttcUqLUJUq

[Barrie Jean Borich @BOOKofBJB]

Opening talk at the @PLU_RWW in the bag! Thanks to all the rapturous Rainier Writing Workshoppers for your beautiful and supportive presence this morning! Let’s go!

[Barrie Jean Borich @BOOKofBJB]

@PLUNEWS @PLU_RWW Check out the masc series Jenni Olsen curated for Criterion! https://t.co/vGmHFCEdRj

[Barrie Jean Borich @BOOKofBJB]

What do a memoirist, an essayist, two poets (1 dead/1 living) 2 transmasc filmmakers from the 90s, and my neighborhood in Chicago have in common? If you are in Tacoma, WA at 8:30 this AM come to my talk at the @PLU_RWW, the only place you will ever see me standing before 10AM!