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Barrie Jean Borich @BOOKofBJB

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

Joined September 2012
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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! blockclubchicago.org/2024/06…

'We Have Always Been Banned': Gerber/Hart Exhibit Explores Banned Books, LGBTQ Resistance

The summer-long exhibit, “Do Say Gay: Banned Books and LGBTQ Freedoms,” opens Friday at Gerber/Hart Library and Archives.

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Next Week in Chicago—my @Depaul students launch their DO SAY GAY exhibit work on banned books and LGBTQ Freedoms @GerberHart Library & Archives.
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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.
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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
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@lithub
13 Mar 2024
What does it mean to invite surprise into your writing? @BOOKofBJB explores the art of bafflement. lithub.com/wrangling-the-unc…
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The Ohio State University Press@ohiostatepress
10 Feb 2024
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 (1/2) #AWP24 #AWP2024
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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
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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.
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Univ Nebraska Press@UnivNebPress
13 Dec 2023
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: bit.ly/UNPholiday2023
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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
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TONIGHT! Please come if you can to check out Jen Soriano's great new book. Note that preregistration is required here: eventbrite.com/e/in-person-n…

In-Person: NERVOUS by Jen Soriano

Celebrate the release of NERVOUS: ESSAYS ON HERITAGE AND HEALING by Jen Soriano. Jen will be joined in conversation by Barrie Jean Borich.

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Coming soon, in Chicago. @LionsWrite /Jen Soriano’s book is gorgeous and the conversation will be too! eventbrite.com/e/in-person-n…

In-Person: NERVOUS by Jen Soriano

Celebrate the release of NERVOUS: ESSAYS ON HERITAGE AND HEALING by Jen Soriano. Jen will be joined in conversation by Barrie Jean Borich.

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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
25 Jul 2023
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
A MFA student shows off a circular description they’ve written in a class exercise. The student is wearing a yellow tee-shirt and glasses. They are holding up a spiral hound notebook for their classmates to see around the table.

ALT A MFA student shows off a circular description they’ve written in a class exercise. The student is wearing a yellow tee-shirt and glasses. They are holding up a spiral hound notebook for their classmates to see around the table.

A MFA writing class of 15 people sit with their tables arranged in a rectangle in the outdoor common area in the middle of the AUC. Water bottles, notebooks, books, and laptop computers cover the tables.

ALT A MFA writing class of 15 people sit with their tables arranged in a rectangle in the outdoor common area in the middle of the AUC. Water bottles, notebooks, books, and laptop computers cover the tables.

Acclaimed nonfiction writer Barrie Jean Borich shares a laugh with students in an outdoor RWW class she is teaching. Borich is wearing a bright, multi-colored scarf and matching purple shirt and glasses. She is smiling as is a student sitting to her right.

ALT Acclaimed nonfiction writer Barrie Jean Borich shares a laugh with students in an outdoor RWW class she is teaching. Borich is wearing a bright, multi-colored scarf and matching purple shirt and glasses. She is smiling as is a student sitting to her right.

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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!
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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!
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I love everything we publish in the @SlagGlassCity —but this essay is one of my all-time faves! So queerly segmented and nonfiction gorgeous. Happy Pride everyone!
Nonfiction For Living Cities@SlagGlassCity
1 Jun 2023
Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY, we welcome in Pride month as Arnaldo Batista steps through memories of Matthew Shepard in “Walking in High Heels and How Matthew Shepard Walks With Me: A Queer Timeline." #pride #matthewshepard #queerstories #cnf #litmag tiny.cc/Shepard
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Traveling home tired after teaching, hemmed in by Cubs fans on the northbound L train, I was so pleased to read this. Thanks to everyone who takes time to read my stuff.
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Thrilled to be headed to Athens Ohio today, where tonight I will debut a new craft talk and read the essay I just published in @_conjunctions and talk about keeping on as writers through these schism-ing times. ohio.edu/news/2023/03/2023-s…
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