A 501(c)(3) non-profit literary organization
       Projects supported by MCAD, City of El Paso and TCA
 
 
Events

BorderSenses will release Vol. 16 of its bilingual magazine on July 1, 2010 @ 7:00 pm. The event will be held at The Percolator Cafe (217 N. Stanton, ELP). The event is free; there will be music and reading. Magazine will be on sale!

BorderSenses magazine release

BorderSenses Vol. 16 release

July 1, 2010 @ 7:00 pm

Percolator Cafe

217 N. Stanton, ELP




News 
• We invite you to join us for our Barbed Wire reading series.

• We invite you to submit for the Vol. 16 of our bilingual literary journal.

• Congrats to writer, Daniel Chacon for winning the American Book Award 2009 (The Before Columbus Foundation). He co-edited with Mimi Gladstein, The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: The Selected Works of Jose Antonio Burciaga. The honorees will be in NYC to accept the award. Check them out! CSPAN on Sunday, Oct11th at 7:30 pm EST.


• BorderSenses has successfully completed the literary projects: Memorias del Silencio Vol V book release on Sept 24’09 and Los ojos on Sept 4’09. More details are on the way!
Bordersenses Issues

Submissions

BorderSenses (est. 2000), one of the few bilingual magazines in the U.S., has published fifteen issues so far.

BorderSenses
thanks everyone for their submissions for Volume 16, which will be published in June 2010. We will keep you posted on the exact date of publication.

Submission period: October 4, 2009 to March 7, 2010 has ended.

Tentative publication date: June 2010


Featured Artist
Daniel Chacon

Daniel Chacón is a thoroughly modern writer whose writing explores inter-personal relationships to get to the core of who we are. Chacón's collection of stories, Unending rooms is the winner of The Hudson Prize. It is set mainly in the southwest and digs deep into the lives of each character, laying bare their emotional distance, vulnerabilities and desires.   Chacón’s writing is deceptively simple, Carveresque at times in its plain talk. And yet, the narrative in each of these stories is dead-on-the-money, intimate and insightful. All the universal themes are there, love and acceptance, rejection and loss, fitting in and standing out, while in the hands of a masterful story teller like Daniel Chacón, each tale is brilliantly crafted and unique     Read more
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