Hello expat-blog readers,
I'm a 28 year old English male and I'm looking to start a new free newspaper for Barcelona a la BCN Mes or Metropolitan. However I don't want to fill it with boring or pretentious articles, but with fiction. The theme would be Barcelona and there would be space for articles and columns, but the main focus would be to populate each edition with short stories.
To this end I need writers and collaborators for this project. People with a literary bent, who enjoy writing and creating stories and like to express themselves through written word. The language doesn't have to be English, the stories can be about anything, but I would like to retain a theme relating to the city and locality that we live in.
When I read a copy of Metropolitan, I want to rip the pages apart as every article is so bland and boring and entirely written to service the interests of the boring people who write it. Who wants to read 2,000 words about picking grapes in Catalunya. 200, maybe. It is consistently atrocious.
And then there is BCN Week, which is more interesting but still ultimately filled with articles that ache with all the esoteric coolness that they think they possess. Just so hip and trendy, giving the proles of Barcelona a tantalising glimpse into some of the cool shit that happens in this city. How nice of them.
The stories for this paper don't need to be entirely fictional, but simply an intriguingly written account of some event or incident in the writer's life, daily or otherwise, in Barcelona. Or they could be entirely fictional and about space dinosaurs revolting against their lesbian zombie masters. For the right writers there could be space for an opinion column or two.
I don't want the paper to fall into the same breed as the other free papers, with forgettable articles and then some pages on what's on, upcoming festivals and events, cool restaurants and trendy bars. But on the other hand I can't do this on my own and I need a team of writers each with their own ideas to contribute and collaborate.
So, if you're a writer, if you want a platform to express yourself, if you like fiction, and if you want to be part of a project that will take up a lot of time and isn't very likely to pay any money, please reply to this anuncio.
Your friend,
Walter
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Ps. The project will also require technically minded people, such as artists and designers, web designers, newspaper makers, etc.