NthWORD
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nthWORD is a quarterly online magazine
for creative people, by creative people. The magazine publishes works of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and art by both established and emerging writers and artists, as well as mock ads. Its goal is to bring together writers and visual artists and to engage people who are passionate about ideas, words, and images.
In addition, nthWORD conducts interviews with both commercial and independent artists and professionals working in a variety of creative disciplines and maintains nthWORD Shorts, a blog with a focus on creativity. nthWORD Shorts includes daily and weekly posts on art
, culture
and entertainment
—including, but not limited to: filmmaking
, literature
, design
, publishing
, photography
, and social media
—as well as artist interviews and reviews on theatre
, books, film
and technology
.
Notable contributors include award-winning poet Lyn Lifshin
, director Antoine Fuqua
, humorist Harmon Leon, best-selling author David Henry Sterry
, multidisciplinary artist Michael Holman, advertising executive Mat Zucker of Ogilvy & Mather
and award-winning filmmaker Liz Canner
.
Online magazine
An online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers, but can usually be distinguished by its approach to editorial control...
for creative people, by creative people. The magazine publishes works of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and art by both established and emerging writers and artists, as well as mock ads. Its goal is to bring together writers and visual artists and to engage people who are passionate about ideas, words, and images.
In addition, nthWORD conducts interviews with both commercial and independent artists and professionals working in a variety of creative disciplines and maintains nthWORD Shorts, a blog with a focus on creativity. nthWORD Shorts includes daily and weekly posts on art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
, culture
Culture
Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...
and entertainment
Entertainment
Entertainment consists of any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. Entertainment is generally passive, such as watching opera or a movie. Active forms of amusement, such as sports, are more often considered to be recreation...
—including, but not limited to: filmmaking
Filmmaking
Filmmaking is the process of making a film, from an initial story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shooting, directing, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a theatrical release or television program...
, literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
, design
Design
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
, publishing
Publishing
Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information—the activity of making information available to the general public...
, photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
, and social media
Social media
The term Social Media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0,...
—as well as artist interviews and reviews on theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
, books, film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
.
Notable contributors include award-winning poet Lyn Lifshin
Lyn Lifshin
-Life:Born in Barre, VT, she was raised in Middlebury, VT. She earned a bachelor's degree in English from Syracuse University and a master's degree in English from the University of Vermont...
, director Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua is an American film director. He directed the film Training Day as well as Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter and Brooklyn's Finest...
, humorist Harmon Leon, best-selling author David Henry Sterry
David Henry Sterry
David Henry Sterry is an American author, actor/comic, and former sex worker.- Biography :Sterry started in show business as a standup comedian in the early 1980s, opening for acts ranging from Milton Berle to Robin Williams to Dana Carvey...
, multidisciplinary artist Michael Holman, advertising executive Mat Zucker of Ogilvy & Mather
Ogilvy & Mather
Ogilvy & Mather is an international advertising, marketing and public relations agency based in Manhattan and owned by the WPP Group. The company operates 497 offices in 125 countries with approximately 16,000 employees.-History:...
and award-winning filmmaker Liz Canner
Liz Canner
Liz Canner is an award winning American filmmaker who makes documentaries, digital public art installations and new media projects on human rights issues. She often employs cutting edge technologies to explore social issues from a new perspective. A prime example of this is her critically...
.
Staff
- Publisher/Co-founder: Robert FrigaultRobert FrigaultRobert Frigault is a Canadian cyber-activist, publisher/writer and entrepreneur who was active against Bennett Environmental Inc.'s plans to operate a soil incinerator designed to treat soils contaminated with PCBs, PCPs, pesticides and chlorinated organic compounds...
- Editor-in-Chief/Co-founder: Ryan O'Connor
- Associate Editor: Jennifer König
- Associate Editor: Eliza Kane
- Assistant Editor: Nick Johnson
Film
- Producer Kim WaltripKim WaltripKim Waltrip is the owner of Wonderstar Productions and co-owner of Kim and Jim Productions, LLC. A film and television production company based out of Palm Springs, CA...
(Expecting MaryExpecting MaryExpecting Mary is a 2010 comedy-drama film starring Elliott Gould and Linda Gray. It was directed by Dan Gordon and produced by Kim Waltrip with executive producer Jim Casey The film premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival 2010 on January 16 and was selected as the opening film at...
) (Issue 3, Fall 2009) - Director Antoine FuquaAntoine FuquaAntoine Fuqua is an American film director. He directed the film Training Day as well as Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter and Brooklyn's Finest...
(Brooklyn's FinestBrooklyn's FinestBrooklyn's Finest is a 2009 American crime film starring Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, and Wesley Snipes in his first theatrical film since 2004's Blade: Trinity. The film also stars Will Patton, Ellen Barkin and Vincent D'Onofrio. It is directed by Antoine Fuqua, and written by Michael...
) (Issue 6, April 2010) - Filmmaker Liz CannerLiz CannerLiz Canner is an award winning American filmmaker who makes documentaries, digital public art installations and new media projects on human rights issues. She often employs cutting edge technologies to explore social issues from a new perspective. A prime example of this is her critically...
(Orgasm Inc.Orgasm Inc.Orgasm Inc. is the first feature documentary by award-winning director Liz Canner. It premiered at the Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival....
), (Issue 5, February 2010) - Harold BlankHarold BlankHarold Blank is an American movie theatre owner. His company HLB Entertainment owns and operates two cinemas in Burlington, Vermont, the Majestic 10 and Palace 9....
, Theatre Owner and Partner of Vermont International Film FestivalVermont International Film FestivalVermont International Film Festival is a film festival, held annually in Burlington, Vermont, USA. The 2011 Festival ran from October 21 to October 30.Historically it was an environmental and human rights film festival...
(Issue 5, February 2010) - Screenwriter/Director Michael Holman Basquiat (film) (Issue 8, December 2010)
Theatre
- Actors Matthew Glassman and Carlos Uriona of Double Edge TheatreDouble Edge TheatreDouble Edge Theatre is a physical theatre company located in Ashfield, Massachusetts. Artistic Director Stacy Klein co-founded the theater with designer Carroll Durrand in 1982 while at Tufts University. The company uses physical training and improvisation to create original performances...
(Issue 5, February 2010) - Virlana TkaczVirlana TkaczVirlana Tkacz is the founding director of the Yara Arts Group, a resident company at the world-renown La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York. She was educated at Bennington College and Columbia University, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in theatre directing...
, Founding Director of Yara Arts GroupYara Arts GroupYara Arts Group is a resident company at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York. Established in 1990, Yara is a collective of artists of Asian, African, Latino, Eastern and Western European ancestry, who come together to create original work based on traditional material from...
by Olena Jennings (Issue 6, April 2010)
Writing/Publishing
- Shane Jones (author)Shane Jones (author)Shane Jones is a novelist, short story writer, and poet. He is most known for his novel Light Boxes.In 2009, Jones sold the film option to his first novel, Light Boxes, to Spike Jonze, with speculations that Ray Tintori would direct...
of Light Boxes (Issue 8, December 2010) - Dennis Loy Johnson of Melville House PublishingMelville House PublishingMelville House Publishing is an independent publisher of literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The company was founded in 2001 by the husband and wife team of Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians in Hoboken, New Jersey, a location Johnson jokingly called "the Left Bank" of New York City...
(Issue 8, December 2010) - Poet Laureate Charles SimicCharles SimicDušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.-Early years:...
(nthWORD Shorts, Olena Jennings, April 18th, 2011) - James Scudamore (author)James Scudamore (author)James Scudamore is an author. He grew up in Japan, Brazil and the UK, and is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford and of the University of East Anglia.-Books:...
of Booker Prize nominated Heliopolis (2009 novel)Heliopolis (2009 novel)Heliopolis is a 2009 novel by the British author James Scudamore. It is set in the city and surrounding areas of contemporary São Paulo, Brazil, and follows the story of a young, favela-born man, Ludo dos Santos...
(nthWORD Shorts, Ryan O'Connor, July 11th, 2011)
Music
- Matthew Clark of White Rabbits (band)White Rabbits (band)White Rabbits is an American six-piece indie rock band based in Brooklyn, NY, originally from Columbia, Missouri. The band released its debut studio album, Fort Nightly, on May 22, 2007. They currently record for TBD Records.-History:...
(Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2009) - Thomas GobenaThomas GobenaThomas "Tommy T" Gobena is the bassist for Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello. He is of Ethiopian descent and was born in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. He moved to Washington D.C. in 1987, at the age of 16, and joined Gogol Bordello in 2006...
and Ori KaplanOri KaplanOri Kaplan is a jazz saxophonist from Israel. He moved to the United States in 1991. He has worked with Tom Abbs and the Balkan Beat Box.-Career:...
of Gogol BordelloGogol BordelloGogol Bordello is a Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, formed in 1999 and known for theatrical stage shows and persistent touring.Much of the band's sound is inspired by Gypsy music...
(Issue 7, August 2010)
Advertising
- The World’s Greatest Salesperson Contest by Ogilvy & MatherOgilvy & MatherOgilvy & Mather is an international advertising, marketing and public relations agency based in Manhattan and owned by the WPP Group. The company operates 497 offices in 125 countries with approximately 16,000 employees.-History:...
(nthWORD Shorts, March 29, 2010)
Books
- Zero by Ignacio de Loyola Brandao (nthWORD Shorts, November 2010)
- The Good-Bye Angel by Ignacio de Loyola Brandao (nthWORD Shorts, November 2010)
- Ice Trilogy by Vladimir SorokinVladimir SorokinVladimir Georgievich Sorokin is a contemporary postmodern Russian writer and dramatist, one of the most popular in modern Russian literature.-Biography:...
(nthWORD Shorts, July 2010)
Film
- The Squid and the WhaleThe Squid and the WhaleThe Squid and the Whale is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach and produced by Wes Anderson. It tells the semi-autobiographical story of two boys in Brooklyn dealing with their parents' divorce in the 1980s. The film is named after a giant squid and sperm whale diorama...
: A Comedic Victory, Not for the Sentimental (nthWORD Shorts, October 27th, 2010)
Photography
- Miss Aniela (Natalie Dybisz) on FlickrFlickrFlickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...
& Freedom of Expression (nthWORD Shorts, February 3, 2010) - Viola Muscinelli on CensorshipCensorshipthumb|[[Book burning]] following the [[1973 Chilean coup d'état|1973 coup]] that installed the [[Military government of Chile |Pinochet regime]] in Chile...
(nthWORD Shorts, February 8, 2010) - Jessica Stoker: Beyond Inhibitions (nthWORD Shorts, February 13, 2010)
- Nate Howard On Seeing HaitiHaitiHaiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...
, Nate Howard Photographs Haiti (nthWORD Shorts, February 14, 2010)
Theatre
- The Salvation of Anarchy: Review of The Disappearance by Double Edge TheatreDouble Edge TheatreDouble Edge Theatre is a physical theatre company located in Ashfield, Massachusetts. Artistic Director Stacy Klein co-founded the theater with designer Carroll Durrand in 1982 while at Tufts University. The company uses physical training and improvisation to create original performances...
(nthWORD Shorts, April 1, 2010)
Music
- The Decemberists (band) Review of The King Is Dead (album)The King Is Dead (album)The King Is Dead is the sixth studio album by The Decemberists, released on Capitol Records on January 14, 2011. Described as the "most pastoral, rustic record they've ever made," by Douglas Wolk of Rolling Stone, the album reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart for the week ending February...
by Seth Katz (nthWORD Shorts, January 27, 2010) - St. Vincent (musician) Review of Strange MercyStrange MercyStrange Mercy is the third studio album by musician St. Vincent, released by 4AD on September 12, 2011, in the United Kingdom and a day later in the United States. The album's cover art was designed by St. Vincent, and was photographed by Tina Tyrell. The album peaked at #19 on the Billboard 200,...
by Seth Katz (nthWORD Shorts, September 15, 2011)