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Slag Glass City We are a creative nonfiction and multidisciplinary media journal engaged with sustainability, identity and art in urban environments. What is slag glass?

https://www.slagglasscity.org/submit/ Slag is the waste product of iron ore processing and a marker of the remains of the American steel industry. Slag glass is opaque and decorative, the streaks of color said to be the result of adding slag to molten glass. The origins of slag glass as a decorative arts material are murky and speculative but the end product is substantive, beautiful, and utilitar

ian, making slag glass the perfect image of nonfiction art that comes from and speaks to the post-industrial city. Slag is also a pejorative for the sexually unbound woman; glass is an unavoidable component of the big city skyline view; cities are where people live together—densely, cooperatively, tensely, tragically, and hopefully. What is a slag class city? A melding of the old and the new, of the ugly and the beautiful, of the accident and the plan, of the place and the body, of the rust and the water, of the glass and the green, of the textual and the visual, of the rooftop and the prairie, of the broken and the restored. We seek work that interrogates and celebrates urbanity in all its myriad forms, asking the question: what does and does not make the city livable? Slag Glass City is currently under development with support from the English Department and MA in Writing and Publishing Program at DePaul University in Chicago IL. Current students at DePaul may not submit.

“One day in New York, I sought a reprieve from the city’s perpetual trembling restlessness.” -David Rompf “Here Lies A C...
21/10/2025

“One day in New York, I sought a reprieve from the city’s perpetual trembling restlessness.” -David Rompf “Here Lies A City” in the SLAG GLASS CITY LINK IN BIO! https://x9373.2.vu/HereLiesACity

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY David Rompf asks the headstones: who lived, who died, who told your story? LINK IN BIO!...
20/10/2025

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY David Rompf asks the headstones: who lived, who died, who told your story? LINK IN BIO! Barrie Jean Borich https://x9373.2.vu/HereLiesACity

"I take out my camera, setting it to manual focus, and see what sort of abstractions I can create each time the bus stop...
08/06/2025

"I take out my camera, setting it to manual focus, and see what sort of abstractions I can create each time the bus stops. It’s a world of angles and figures, umbrellas and raincoats." - Jeremiah Gilbert "Rainy Melbourne" in the SLAG GLASS CITY http://tiny.cc/rainymelbourne

Barrie Jean Borich

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY the city walkers are getting wet in Jeremiah Gilbert's "Rainy Melbourne". http://tiny.c...
07/06/2025

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY the city walkers are getting wet in Jeremiah Gilbert's "Rainy Melbourne". http://tiny.cc/rainymelbourne

Barrie Jean Borich

"I'll play Watson to Suzanne’s Holmes. The story is as much about her search as it is about what she’s found, and everyt...
02/06/2025

"I'll play Watson to Suzanne’s Holmes. The story is as much about her search as it is about what she’s found, and everything is subject to the modifier “so far.” - Selene dePackh "Time Is A Distance That Changes The Shape of Things" in the SLAG GLASS CITY http://tiny.cc/timeisadistance
Barrie Jean Borich
Selene DePackh

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY—Selene dePackh navigates the archives of the unseen in Pittsburgh. http://tiny.cc/timei...
01/06/2025

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY—Selene dePackh navigates the archives of the unseen in Pittsburgh. http://tiny.cc/timeisadistance
Barrie Jean Borich
Selene DePackh

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY Selene dePackh peruses old Pittsburgh to piece together her spouse's family tree. http://ti...
31/05/2025

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY Selene dePackh peruses old Pittsburgh to piece together her spouse's family tree. http://tiny.cc/timeisadistance
Barrie Jean Borich

"My telephone can receive calls; it just can’t make them, out into the world, and if someone were to call, my voice woul...
30/05/2025

"My telephone can receive calls; it just can’t make them, out into the world, and if someone were to call, my voice would crack from lack of use. Save me! Would I croak?" Melissa Haley "The Residence Hotel for Introverts, 1989" in the SLAG GLASS CITY
http://tiny.cc/hotelforintroverts1989
Barrie Jean Borich

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