Apply
Written applications open after our interest meeting on 9/9/24, and are rolling, due on 9/23.
Interviews will be conducted the weeks of 9/15 and 9/22.
The most important thing to put in your application is effort. We want to see that you really care about CORTEX and will be engaged with our community.
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For those who love developing short stories, flash fiction, plays, and other forms of prose-based creative writing. For those who have chemistry with contemporary fiction, particularly speculative and dystopian fiction. We are searching for individuals with their eyes on the horizon, but the heart to collaborate, to contribute to something larger than an individual story.
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For those who can match sound with story, and envision the audio waves of a universe.
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For those who see particles in poetry, who can feel the resonance between words, letters, and symbols. We are searching for individuals with their eyes on the horizon, but the heart to collaborate, to contribute to something larger than an individual poem.
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For those who find inspiration in the beautiful skeletons of numbers, the blue-stained fans of dendrites, and the buttery webs of lichens atop trees to make their artwork come alive.
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For those who love reading WIRED and the New Yorker and are fascinated by long-form journalism and nonfiction that intertwines personal experience and data-driven research - who want to make persuasive and driven arguments. For those who are interested in utilizing philosophy, ethics, art history, and the humanities to address complex scientific issues, or vice versa. We are searching for individuals with large ideas, but the ability to translate them effectively and assist other nonfiction editors with strengthening and widening their arguments.
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Don't easily fit into the above genres? Even better! We love multimedia, genre-bending art, and welcome, even encourage, mediums other than those above, like dance, sculpture, and literally anything else you can come up with. We'll find a space for you at CORTEX.
Responsibilities of a CORTEX editor
Attend all-staff meetings (once a week for 1-2 hours) and participate in brainstorming, workshopping, and production sessions.
Attend and participate in semesterly showcases.
Meet regularly with your LGE and collaborators.
Draft, revise, and submit genre-specific creative work within deadlines.
Maintain timely correspondence; respond to emails and fill out required forms in a timely manner.
Be communicative.
Take initiative in collaborating with other editors and experimenting with your genre’s work as a whole.
Uphold an open, creative, passionate and kind environment. Be present in our community.
A public interest meeting will be held at 7 p.m., Sept. 9, 2024, in the Trumbull College Common Room.
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
– Ray Bradbury
The universe is as beautiful as an echo – expansive, but microscopic. Blades of wheat whispering against each other in the yellow sun, the corona radiata of white fibers fanning out like a ray in our skulls, pulsing with the careful electric puzzles of life, the parallax angles of stars that poke through the wispy blue water of night. We seek those who are fascinated by these images, but are curious about the stories they might hold – of grief, anger, loss, love, and sacrifice, of the tender lobe of a mother’s ear even as wires curve into her mind. Like these.
ULTRAVIOLET - Kayla Feng
The Great Silence - Ted Chiang, Allora & Calzadill
All Summer in a Day – Ray Bradbury
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
Oryx & Crake – Margaret Atwood; the Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood