SLING Magazine
Kaela Danielle McNeil won the Roy F. Powell Creative Writing Award in Poetry (2011) and has been published in Anthropoid and The Miscellany. She is an MFA student at Lesley University and currently works as the prose editor for Sling Magazine while interning at VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Currently she lives in Salem, MA with her daughter.
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About Sling Magazine:
Sling Magazine is a "How To" magazine featuring "Davids" of the art world – ordinary people who are or become extraordinary. It was inspired by Malcolm Gladwell's book "David & Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and The Art of Battling Giants", released in 2013. Connecting Gladwell's work with her observations, Creative Director Hope Johnson quickly learned it was the way in which ordinary people "Davids" used unique tools and talents to defeat "giants" that determined their success. Sling was created ask readers and artists a question Gladwell's work conjured in Johnson: What's in Your Sling?
Sling Magazine features essays, fiction, poetry, art / photography and interviews. To submit, please see "submissions" for more information.
Editorial & Art Production Board
Owner & Creative Director
Bonita Lee Penn
Special Thank You to our Social Media / Production Advisor: M.J. Moneymaker
Hope Johnson is a native of Lexington, KY. Hope received a B.A. in English Literature & Language at the University of Kentucky and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Lesley University. Hope is a 2014 Pushcart Prize Nominee. Her work has been published in PLUCK!, So To Speak Feminist Journal, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Journal of Southern Appalachian Literature, Red Earth Review, Bayou Magazine, and Kweli Journal. Hope was also guest upcoming young artist on Kentucky Educational Television Network's Connections with Renee Shaw and has been a featured artist on NPR, With Good Reason Virginia Radio, and University of Kentucky Radio. Hope completed a Callaloo Journal Fellowship in 2012, Teaching Artist Internship with Cross Cultural Collaborative Inc. NGO School for the Arts located in Ghana in 2013, and created the first creative writing summer classes for children while a Science & Art Instructor at The Living Arts & Science Center of Lexington. Hope now resides in New York and is Owner and Creative Director of Sling Magazine.
Hope Johnson
Editorial Manager
Bonita Lee Penn received her MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from Lesley University. Her B.A. in Creative Writing (Creative Nonfiction) with a minor in Professional Writing from Carlow University where she also received several writing awards. She presently lives in Pittsburgh, PA. She is the Managing Editor of the Soul Pitt Quarterly Magazine, and Poetry Editor of its’ sister website. Her writing has appeared in Blackberry: a magazine and Linden Avenue Journal online, Voices from the Attic Anthology, Three Rivers Run Deep-Pittsburgh Poets, The Critical Point, Crossing Limits Anthology of African American and American Jews Poetry. She is an active participant in poetry readings throughout Pittsburgh. She is a member of the Madwomen in the Attic writing group; facilitator of the Umbra/Pittsburgh Writers Workshop. Founder and organizer of the Soul Pitt Media’s “Meet the Authors” event and an advocate of the importance of creative writing as a venue of free expression for our communities’ youth.