On the Corner
On the Corner is an ongoing bioGraph production of Chicago street corner stories, told by our fellow citizens. We began On the Corner to build community through shared stories and amplify the diverse voices of Chicago. This project embodies our mission to write and preserve stories that enlighten, entertain, and inspire.
Watch the video
On the Corner Stories
Interviews On the Corner
Interviews On the Corner
Businesses
Share why your company is a neighborhood cornerstone to tell customers a story they won’t forget.
Artists
Every corner is a stage for storied lives. If street corners could talk, which stories would they tell?
Students
Go beyond the classroom to school us on the streets. Sometimes you can learn more on the corner than you can in any book.
Professionals
Your commute can be the most glorious part of the daily grind. Be the author of your story before your 9am.
Seniors
A life lived is a life full of stories. Many stories begin with an address. Share your street corner memories.
Submissions
bioGraph invites submissions of original stories, photographs, and illustrations for On the Corner, a collection of perspectives on Chicago intersections. We seek writing that enlightens, entertains, and inspires; that captures environments and interactions; that demonstrates social, spiritual, historical, psychological, and/or emotional nuance and depth. We gravitate toward writing that is terse, subtle, empathetic, urgent, alluring, witty, playful, and profound without taking itself too seriously.
Guidelines
200-500 word vignettes
Opportunity for ongoing collaboration with bioGraph for top submission
No previously published material will be accepted
bioGraph reserves the right to publish and reproduce any submissions; writers and artists will be acknowledged as authors
Topics
Intersections & Intersectionality
Crossings & Crossroads
Crises & Turning Points
Boundaries & Borders
Transit(ions)
Accidents & Auspicious Encounters
Commutes & Commutation
Division & Cutting Asunder
Names & Naming
Local(ity) & Global(ism)
Strangers & Shared Identities
Property & Gentrification
Color Lines & Police Lines
Neighborhood & Community