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National Writers Union - New York Chapter UAW Local 1981
Thank you for your submission to the 9/11 Memorial Anthology Project. We are sending this e-mail to you because we may be able to use your work. We received many strong pieces for the anthology, including
poems, on-the-scene reports, essays, songs, and other works that
were Originally the plan was to have the anthology available in time for the 9/11 anniversary; unfortunately few of the works we have received met the submission guidelines posted online and in NWU newsletters. We did not feel that there was a sufficient collection of works for an anthology about union responses to the 9/11 crisis, but we also realized that our guidelines were perhaps too narrow, especially considering the special nature of the crisis itself. The Editorial Committee recently met and decided that although much of what we received did not meet the original submission guidelines, many of the works deserve a wider audience. To that end, we are now putting together a non-profit web-based publication where interested readers may have access to them. We realize this is different from what you expected when you submitted your work to us, but we hope you will be willing to participate in the project based on this new direction. Please let us know by responding to this e-mail. You will soon receive word from us with further details of the web-based project. The Editorial Committee Recommended websites:Remember September 11? by Mark Fiore Sonic Memorial Project. is an open archive on the history of the World Trade Center, and it is a compelling site - indeed, a great example of how the Web offers us new ways to tell stories. This story is told mostly with sound - hundreds of sound streams offered side by side in what the site terms "an interactive soundscape." There are ambient sounds, voice-mails, radio broadcasts, and archival recordings related to the events of September 11, 2001, the history of the twin towers and the neighborhood in which they stood. Led by National Public Radio's Lost & Found Sound, the project is "a cross-media collaboration of ... radio and new media producers, artists, historians, and people from around the world." Anyone can contribute. There still is a toll-free number that anyone can call to leave sounds for |