The Bohemian invites you to “Step Up to the Mic.”
The Bohemian is “an award-winning alternative newsweekly serving Sonoma, Napa and Marin Counties [in Northern California].”
However, you don’t have to live in Northern California for this challenge.
The Bohemian wants to hear from you!
From The Editors:
“Ah, the Open Mic. This is the one space in the paper, besides the letters section, where we don’t just want your input—we rely on your input. It’s a space we leave open and free to all comers, where a fiery and well-turned argument will always find a home.
Please don’t take this as a threat, but—you really do not want the Bohemian staff to start filling the Open Mic with half-baked opinions about everything and everything.”
Click here to read the challenge from the editors in its entirety.
The Bohemian wants to “hear from our readers—all of our readers—who have an opinion to share, and the ability to do so in 350 words more or less. We want fresh perspectives on hot-button issues, well-turned screeds and savage indictments of the odious and the corrupted.
So next time you’re about going to go on a ranting spree at Craigslist, check those contrails, adjust your tinfoil hat and crank it out for the Bohemian instead.
We’ll run it, unless you stray from common decency and into libelous waters. We’re trying to keep an open mind—and more to the point, trying to keep the Open Mic true to its original vision.”
Open Mic is a weekly feature in the ‘Bohemian. To have your topical essay of 350 words considered for publication, write openmic@bohemian.com.
Note from Marlene: This is your chance to be heard! Go for it.
