<font face="georgia,serif">Hi all,<br><br>I hope you can contribute! Please share with your networks.<br><br>Best,<br>Rachelle<br><br><a href="http://ucrtists.wordpress.com/">From UCR'tists:</a><br></font><p>Novelist and Professor in Creative Writing, Susan Straight wrote this
in a recent letter to students, families, staff and faculty:</p>
<p><strong>Write your story, tell us what you did before you got here,
what your parents did, and what you plan to do with your life with your
degree – whatever your major, whatever your career, whether you’ve just
arrived or are in graduate school or are working. If you’re in high
school and plan to attend a UC, write about your plans. If you’re
graduated, let us know what you do.</strong></p>
<p>UCR’tists are currently in the process of curating a section for <strong>Community Stories</strong>
on our blog. We are sending out a call to YOU – students, faculty,
staff and families – who are affected by the recent proposed 32% (or $1
billion) to the UC system. Send us poems, non-fiction, interviews,
visual art, photography, letters to your legislators, responses to Susan
Straight and Tom Lutz’s letters. <strong> Please email text submissions
in (doc.) or (pdf.) format and visual submissions in (jpeg.) or (pdf.)
to ucrtists (at) <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>. The submissions period is on a rolling
basis. We look forward to reading them!</strong></p>Please check out the blog: <a href="http://ucrtists.wordpress.com/">http://ucrtists.wordpress.com/</a><br clear="all"><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">*****</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif">
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Rachelle Cruz,</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Host of "The Blood-Jet Writing Hour" Radio Show</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif">
<a style="font-family:georgia,serif" href="http://www.thebloodjet.wordpress.com" target="_blank">www.thebloodjet.wordpress.com</a><br><br><br><br><br>