Summer Art and Story Contests!

In addition to accepting regular submissions for the magazine, Sliced Bread will be running special contests for short stories and art. Winners of both contests will receive a $25 gift card to the Seminary Co-Op Bookstore. In addition to a gift card, the winner of the Summer Art Contest will have her art featured on Sliced Bread's 2017 t-shirts, which will be available for purchase by Winter Quarter 2018.

If submitting a short story to our Summer Short Story Contest, address the title of your email as such: "Last Name, Short Story Contest, Name of Piece." If submitting an art piece to the Summer Art Contest, address the title of your email as such: "Last Name, Art Contest, Name of Piece." If an email is not titled as such, we will not review the piece attached for either contest, even if it is an art piece or short story. Even if a piece is not chosen as a winner for either contest, it will still be reviewed for the magazine. Submissions to both contests can be sent to submit@slicedbreadmag.com.

We request that story stories be no more than eight pages double-spaced in Times New Roman font, with 1 inch margins. You may submit up to two pieces for the short story contest, and up to two pieces for the Summer Art Contest. We encourage all writers and artists to send any additional work as regular submissions to the magazine. 

The deadline for both contests is Sunday, October 15. We look forward to reviewing your work! 

Sliced Bread Spring 2017 Launch Party

Launch Party Spring 2017 poster

Sliced Bread is proud to announce its Spring 2017 launch party.  There will be free copies of the new magazine, pizza, fruit, hummus, and warm homemade cookies. In addition to being an open mic for the first half, we'll open it up to a variety of the campus's hottest performing artists including Ilan Haskel, Isaac Troncoso, UC Dancers, Men in Drag, Robert J. Zimmer?, the "saxy" Average Johnson as well as a Wushu performance and much, much more. Get excited and invite your friends!!!

Collaboration with Study Abroad

Submissions to the Study Abroad Writing Contest will be considered for publication in a future issue of Sliced Bread, provided they have not been published elsewhere. Submissions to the Study Abroad Photo Contest will also be considered for publication in the magazine. To allow more students an opportunity to participate in the cosponsored, carbo-loaded contests, we are extending the submission deadline to FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015.

Review the contest rules and list of prizes: http://study-abroad.uchicago.edu/contests

Spring 2015 Launch Party!


Hello bread lovers,

We are crazy excited to be teaming up with 2nd Story for our Spring 2015 issue launch!  2nd Story is Chicago storytelling organization, and they have prepared three stories for us based upon "This Frenetic World: Stories of Finding Meaning in the Chaos."  We'd love to have you there.

April  8th, 2015
Doors open at 6:30, stories start at 7:00
Open mic at 8:30
McCormick Lounge 
RSVP on Facebook! 

Pan-amorously Yours

Alone on Valentine's Day?  Never fear, The Bread Beat is here!  We will keep you company with Paul Dillon's poem about the flatulence caused by love, as well as an assortment of our producer's favorite love poems.  Check out our updated page here, and remember to support our collaborators, The Vein!

FRESHLY BAKED: NEW EPISODES OF THE BREAD BEAT

In collaboration with The Vein, Sliced Bread is proud to present brand new episodes of our podcast, The Bread Beat.  New episodes can be found on on our page here.  Our third episode features Lucia Lu reading her poem "Tom Hanks," as well as Elizabeth Bynum reading her poem "Underneath."  In our fourth episode Julian Spergel reads Lillian Solenick's "The Byzantine Birds," a wonderfully creepy short story.
Curl up with your favorite kind of bread, plug in your headphones and let your hungry heart indulge.  We hope you enjoy.

Winter 2015 Submissions

Hello bread-lovers!  

It's that time of year again, and we are on the prowl for submissions!  Please send your words or pictures to submit@slicedbreadmag.com.  Our submission guidelines are available here. 

We look forward to reading your submissions!

 

STAFF APPLICATIONS AND OTHER AWESOME STUFF

Hello bread-lovers,
The staff application process is underway, and we're pumped to be getting so many good applications and submissions. 
If you haven't had a chance to send in yours, never fear! We'll be accepting applications for staff until the 20th of October. 
ps. We're also accepting submissions for our winter quarter issue, through the 20th of December. 

The Prodigal Bread Returns!

Sliced Bread is back on campus for the 2014-2015 school year, and we want you to be a part of our magazine!  Submissions, whether art or writing, are due on December 20th and staff applications for Autumn 2014 are due on October 20th at 5:00 p.m.

If you have any questions, shoot us an email at editors@slicedbreadmag.com.   

Interested in joining staff? You still can!

Hey y'all. If you're still interested in joining staff, guess what? IT'S NOT TOO LATE! We'll be looking at applications over the next couple of weeks, so why not apply?

Seriously, why not. Do it. 

Just click on that handy link called "Joining Staff" and fill out our hysterically hilarious application. 

We can't wait to read them! 

 

Eternally yours, 

The Editors

WELCOME BACK!

Hey everyone! As we're all settling in to another year at UChicago, we want to remind everyone we are currently taking applications for staff. You can find staff applications right up in that helpful tab that says "Joining Staff." Applications will only be accepted until the end of third week, and make sure to attend one of our info sessions if you want to learn more! They will be Friday (October 11th) in Bartlett Lounge at 4:00PM and Tuesday (October 15th) in Harper 130 at 5:00PM. 

Also don't forget to SUBMIT!!!!!! 

Hate your freshman roommate? SUBMIT 

Broke up with that o-mance? SUBMIT 

Terrified about being a fourth year? That's right, SUBMIT 

submit@slicedbreadmag.com 

 

WELCOME, INCOMING FIRSTIES! APPLY!

Note: If you submitted an application before October 1st, 2012, PLEASE RESUBMIT IT. GoogleDoc swallowed your application and brushed away the crumbs from it's sticky fingers before we couldn't get a bite of it. No need to resubmit art or writing samples, though!

 

Hello from the BrEDitors!

We here at Sliced Bread have had a busy summer! Some of us have gone to/are in Turkey, China, and probably other places! Others of us are loving the summertime Chi, and the last of us are sitting in unairconditioned apartments, or working, or both... But now the leaves are starting to change and campus is looking a bit more busy. Classes start next week and the many RSOs that keep student life thriving at the U of C are also starting to get into gear. If you're looking to take part in an RSO that is challenging, rewarding, and quite a bit of fun, and are also interested in dipping your feet into the world of litmags, give us a chance!

We're taking applications to be on staff for the first two weeks of the quarter, and before you submit that app, you should definitely attend an info session.

To cut to the good stuff--

 

APPLICATION FACTS:

PLEASE NOTE that applications are only accepted during the first two weeks of Fall and Winter Quarter. If these dates are past and you still really want to be part of staff, please e-mail us first at editors@slicedbreadmag.com. 
We recommend that you attend an information session before submitting an application. An information session will be held TUESDAY OF FIRST WEEK (OCTOBER 2) at 7:30PM in Harper 103 and THURSDAY OF FIRST WEEK (OCTOBER 4) at 7:30PM in Harper 130.

Due ONLINE by 11:59PM ON SUNDAY OCTOBER 13th.

APPLY HERE!

And email us (editors@slicedbreadmag.com) if you have any questions!

 

GRAPHIC NARRATIVE CONTEST

RULES:

1 ) A theory. 

2 ) An aspect to aspect panel transition. (google it)

3 ) A childhood friend's mother.

 

Brainstorming Workshop Saturday 10:00 - 12:00 AM at Bartlett Lounge

Chris Burnham Workshop Saturday 5:30 PM at Harper 148

 

Due Sunday 8:00 PM at McCormick Lounge

Award Ceremony at 9:30 PM at McCormick Lounge