Iron City Magazine Issue 7 Virtual Launch

Join friends, contributors, and editors of Iron City Magazine: Creative Expressions By and For the Incarcerated celebrating the latest issue.

This free online webinar presentation is open to the public. It will feature contributor presentations with creative writing readings and art displays.

Saturday, December 3, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. (MST)

(Other Time Zones: 11 AM PST | 1 PM CST | 2 PM EST)

This issue's cover art (included in the banner and flier), is by John Zenc. View more work by John in a feature by Justice Arts Coalition here: https://thejusticeartscoalition.org/2020/04/22/artist-spotlight-john-zenc/.

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Featured Webinar Presenters:

Jeff Kronenfeld is a freelance journalist, author and screenwriter based out of Tempe, Arizona. His articles have been published in Discover Magazine, Vice, NewsBreak, the Phoenix New Times, and many other outlets. His scripts have been produced by WatchMojo. His fiction is featured in So It Goes: The Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, Four Chambers Press, Ripples in Space: A Sci-Fi Journal and others. He is one of the current fiction editors for Iron City Magazine.

James Terence Schelble is a formerly incarcerated writer, visual artist and aspiring musician. He holds a PhD in Hungarian Studies from Indiana University and lives and works in Tucson, Arizona as a freelance legal researcher. His creative nonfiction writing and drawings were featured in Issue 6 of Iron City Magazine and his charcoal nudes have have been exhibited at Solar Culture Gallery in Tucson. His post-incarceration artwork relies primarily on mugshot reference photos to create deliberately distorted and emotionally expressive pen and ink portraits of fellow inmates.

Rosemarie Dombrowski (RD) is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, AZ, the founding editor of rinky dink press, and the founding director of Revisionary Arts, a nonprofit that facilitates therapeutic poetry workshops for vulnerable populations and the community at large. She’s also the founding editor of ISSUED, a journal for and about veterans based at ASU, as well as the faculty editor of Grey Matter, the medical poetry journal of the U of A Biomedical campus in Phoenix.

Project PAINT

Project PAINT is an arts organization that creates collaborative projects, conducts visual arts workshops, provides informative lectures and organizes public art events as rehabilitation to people who are incarcerated at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, and California State Prison- Centinela in Imperial, California: https://www.projectpaint.org/

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Issue 7 can be pre-ordered with your online registration or at www.ironcitymagazine.org. Orders will be shipped January 2023. Please include your mailing address in the ticket order.

Merchandise can be purchased at redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/IronCityMag/shop

Iron City Magazine is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. This publication is made possible by the generous grant award from AZ Humanities and community donations.

Once registration is completed, you will receive an email 2 days before the event, 2 hours before the event, and 10 minutes before the event with the link to join the webinar. You must log into your Evenbrite account used in registration in order to join. The button to join the event will be greyed out until 5 minutes before the event start time. At 11:55 AM MST (check your time zone), you will be able to click the button to "Join Now." The webinar is hosted on Zoom. Any issues logging into the event can be directed to ironcitymagazine@gmail.com.