Are you an up-and-coming writer? Would you like your work to be featured on everyone’s favorite neighborhood website? Well, you’re in luck because Bushwick Daily is relaunching its Sunday Read section!

We are now accepting submissions for our fabulous weekly literary feature. Send us your short stories, poetry, essays, script excerpts, comics…you get the point. If we love it, we’ll publish it and all of your friends will be impressed.

Good luck!

Please send submissions (max: 1000 words) to wesleyATbushwickdaily.com.

We want you, you and, yes, you as well. You in the back? Yes, we want you too!

In other words, Bushwick Daily is expanding and looking for new faces to join our team. Bushwick has been growing a lot and we need help covering all of the awesome things that have been happening in the neighborhood. If you are obsessed with everything Bushwick, have a ton of ideas and are a team player, we want you.

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Now that your short film or a video art piece is nicely edited and ready to be seen, you are probably asking yourself: Where to submit and what to expect?

We have two awesome open calls for you: Cinema Club and Microscope Gallery.

Cinema Club: Watch your short film in a movie theater!

Inside of Indiescreen (image via IndieScreen Google+)

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Brian Sensebe (image via http://briansensebe.com/)

Brian Sensebe is the second artist to take over our Facebook cover. Who will be the next one? Maybe you… Just email us your portfolio website to bushwickdailyATgmail.com and everyone in Bushwick will be looking at your art!

Here is a little bit about this week’s winner, Brian Sensebe. Brian is a Peruvian abstract painter with a relaxed attitude towards life who according to his own words can be also very determined. His favorite medium is house paint and raw canvas. Nice!  ”I’ve always loved the behavior of any kind of paint on any kind of surface. Making a painting to me is an escape from contemporary society and helps to bring me back to a more simple and human way of being,” says Brian about his work and life.

Brian currently lives and works in Greenpoint but hangs out in Bushwick all the time. His greatest passion is life “is to create and always be creating, no matter what the format is.” His biggest goal is to achieve the ability to be present and grateful in each passing moment. Brian, you don’t know how much you warmed our hearts – through your work and words as well…

 Check out Brian Sensebe on our Facebook cover!

By Asha Chagoyen

Bushwick can easily be proclaimed the fashion capital of Brooklyn, and so it’s not a surprise that Bushwick has decided to have it very own fashion weekend. Bushwick Fashion Weekend will be held on September 22, (the following weekend of the Williamsburg Fashion Weekend) with hopes that it will be extended into a two day event. And now the great news! Designers, performers, models, and artists are needed for this event.

To participate as one of the aforementioned you have to submit five of your best pieces by August 15th. The $10 admission fee is a donation to maintaining the gallery.

Bushwick fashion weekend is the brainchild of local artist Nyssa Frank, owner of the Living Gallery. Nyssa doesn’t want this fashion weekend to compete with the one held in Williamsburg, but instead display unity of the local artists by having all galleries and local shops work together to make this weekend spectacular. Her vision is not to have a frou-frou Soho-esque fashion week, but have Bushwick’s nitty-gritty, beautiful take on fashion week displaying all things that can be converted in art or vice-versa.

As of now, the fashion shows will be held in Living Gallery studio where jewelry can become art installations and dancers will be serenading the crowd throughout the festivities. Designers should feel free to come dressed in costume, or as themselves.

If more amazing artists decide to sign up for Fashion Weekend, you will be given the opportunity to join a tentative parade commencing from the Morgan Ave train station (or the Jefferson St. Train Station!) concluding at the gallery where all the local designers are able to exhibit their creations for the whole neighborhood to see.

Please join this amazing opportunity local, creative minds. Display unity, and have fun.

Bushwick Daily Radio is expanding!

In April, we began live broatcasting in collaboration with DJ jojoSoul, which has evolved into a weekly broadcast called Live at Five featuring an eclectic mix of obscure tracks and talk.

This month we are launching two new shows: a culture based talk/interview show with Sean Alday called 30 Spokes and Slow Churned, an Indie Music Show hosted by our music editor Maria Gotay. Our radio runs on mixlr, which is an awesome new website making it really easy to broadcast. Also, it allows the listeners to directly interact with the radio hosts via chat, and ask questions or requests songs.  If you miss a show, you can listen to it in the showreel.

BUT our greatest pleasure is to announce that we are crowd sourcing our radio programming. We want to hear your show, your ideas on Bushwick Daily Radio. We want to hear about what interests you, what do you think people need to hear about. Is it local news? Do you want to interact with people about the issues facing the community? Does your venue have live events that should be heard by those who can’t make it? Do you possess an extensive knowledge of the local music scene? Or poetry readings? What about a lullaby hour? Or maybe you’re Bushwick’s answer to Martha Stewart?

Contact us. We want to put the voices of the community on the air.

Anyone can hear it from around the world. Tres Brooklyn!

Learn More. Pitch Your Idea. Create A Show.

Contact us at radio@bushwickdaily.com