NYS Writers Institute: Trolley
Check it out: The NYS Writers Institute has started a new online journal called Trolley. It's a magazine of "of essay, opinion, literature, culture, and politics." Further blurbage:
Trolley began with an idea from author William Kennedy, who envisioned an online literary journal published free of charge in which each issue's words and images related to a single theme. Kennedy shared his idea with Writers Institute Director Paul Grondahl, who decided the inaugural issue theme would converge on the issues of truth, fake news, and journalism. Those themes were central to the Institute's two-day "Telling the Truth in a Post-Truth World" symposium held in October, 2017.
The name Trolley was selected as an homage to Kennedy's 1984 collection of his journalism, Riding the Yellow Trolley Car.
The institute has been making a push in recent years to widen the field of writers and work that it highlights via programs such as the very popular visiting writers series. And it'd be great to see this new project extend that effort as it moves forward.
Also: We're kind of hoping there's eventually an issue where the theme itself is trolleys.
Earlier: Here's how the NYS Writers Institute gets all those great authors to visit
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