Mizna is a Twin Cities-based arts organization that provides a forum for Arab American film, literature, and art. Our main programs are the literary journal, Mizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab America, and the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival. Mizna is seeking interns to help with each of these projects.Literary Journal InternA literary journal intern would be involved with the production and distribution of our literary journal, the next issue of which will be published in November...
Read MoreDEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS DECEMBER 31, 2012Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Festival is seeking films–narrative, documentary, experimental, and animated–both feature-length and shorts, by and/or about Arabs and Arab Americans. Photo credits. Top five images, 2011, Giovanna Nido, Nido Photography. Bottom image, 2010, K. Flo RazowskyWe welcome your submissions and inquires and encourage you to spread the word about this call for submission. We will not be able to address questions about...
Read MoreMizna is pleased to announce the addition of poet Jen March to our editorial team. Jen has long been in the Mizna family, having received a Mizna Latitudes grant and having her poetry published in the journal. She is also an accomplished poetry editor and is the founder of Co-Kisser, the annual poetry-film festival. As our first Poetry Editor, she will bring an important poetic sensibility to Mizna’s literary endeavors. The first issue of Mizna including Jen as Poetry Editor is due out later...
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