Subject: online prose magazine, subscribers

Description: welcome to the otium news listhost! otium is the uchicago creative writing program's new online magazine.\r\n\r\nwe launched our inaugural issue on March 9, 2005. \r\n\r\nvisit us at http://otium.uchicago.edu\r\n\r\nOtium publishes stories, novellas and novel excerpts, memoirs, performance scripts, hypertext, mixed media, anything and everything in prose, as well as art and photography. \r\n\r\nOur motto is good prose evokes otium- leisure or ease- the notion connecting play with work, pleasure with critical thinking.\r\n\r\notium, n.\r\nNow rare.\r\n\xa0 \xa0Brit. /tm/, /m/, U.S. /odim/, /oim/ \xa0[< classical Latin otium\r\nleisure, freedom from business, ease, peace; of uncertain origin. Cf.\r\nearlier OTIUM CUM DIGNITATE n.\r\n\xa0Not fully naturalized in English.]\r\n\r\n\xa0 \xa0Leisure; free time; ease.