Third Person Press (NS) seeks short stories of up to 8000 words and poetry up to 30 lines for an anthology. Stories and poetry must be in the speculative fiction genre (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, and paranormal). Open to Cape Breton writers and those with a substantial connection to the area. Deadline: March 15, 2008. Payment: one copy and share of royalties. More details...
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By: Lisa Alvarado,
on 2/13/2008
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Wednesday,
February 20th. 8 pm Decima Musa Restaurant
1901 S. Loomis, St. Chicago, IL
About the poets: Tim Z. Hernandez is a writer and performer originally from central California. His writing and performance texts have appeared in numerous anthologies and publications, and his performances featured at prestigious venues across the nation, including: LA’s Getty Center Museum, The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Stanford University, and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. In the past, he has been commissioned by major groups such as the United Way of Greater Los Angeles to write and perform his original plays on issues of homelessness and poverty. Currently, he’s working in tandem with Poets & Writers Inc, and California Center for the Book, offering bilingual poetry workshops across the United States.
He is the recipient of several notable awards including: 2006 American Book Award for his debut collection of poetry Skin Tax, San Francisco Foundation’s James Duval Phelan Award, a Best Solo Production Award for his one man show, Diaries of a Macho, and the Zora Neal Hurston Award for writers of color dedicated to their communities. In the interest of artistic development, Hernandez’s focus is on excavating stories that bring to light the limitless potential of the human capacity, stories of physical and metaphysical journeys, with special attention to marginalized populations. When he’s not busy teaching creative writing and performance, he’s touring the country, collaborating with his word-music-theater collective, Brown Lotus, and offering workshops to Universities, arts groups, cultural centers, foundations, and libraries. Tim holds a B.A. in Writing & Literature from Naropa University, the first accredited Buddhist School in the west.
Currently, he resides in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and two daughters.
What People Are Saying About Tim Z. Hernandez
"Tim Hernandez is one of the finest and most exciting new talents to emerge from the new generation of Latino writers!”- Bloomsbury Review, Ray Gonzalez
“It’s too reductionistic to call Tim Hernandez a performance poet…though his voice and rhythms surely benefit from the energy behind a microphone, the complexity of his ideas merit the slower pace study made possible through the written pages of Skin Tax.” - El Paso Times Book Review Rigoberto Gonzalez
“Tim Hernandez is a dynamic force as a writer and performer!” - Gary Soto Author of, Nickel & Dime
“Hernandez is a poet of obvious and quickly realized skills…his images are brilliant, sharp, and concise, his language spare yet rich. Poetry of the here and now, Brown Lotus is the kind of task that should have been undertaken long ago!” -Amiri Baraka, Author of, Transbluesency
“I like Tim’s boldness, his willingness to be raw and trust the content of the poem to make it real and legitimate, his words sizzle and spark with excitement, targeting with a relentless passion his desire to express what he is trying to convey.” - Jimmy Santiago Baca, Author of, A Place To Stand
“[Tim Hernandez] …represents a whole new direction in the Latino literary world!” - Juan Felipe Herrera, Author of, Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler, and 185 Reasons Mexicans Can't Cross the Border
“[Skin Tax] is poetry not for delicate sensibilities, unafraid, it dares to stand out and speak of subjects commonly eschewed by other poets.” - Midwest Book Review
Stephanie Gentry-Fernandez is a poet and performer from the South Side whose male side you may recognize from Teatro Luna's recent production of "Machos." She has a deep personal commitment to anti-oppression work and currently works at the Broadway Youth Center.
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Letras Latinas, The Wind Shifts and a National Tour!
Blanco, David Dominguez, Gina Franco, Sheryl Luna, and Urayoán Noel.
The writers included in this volume have published poetry in well-regarded literary magazines. Some have published chapbooks or first collections, but none had published more than one book at the time of selection. This results in a freshness that energizes the enterprise. Certainly there is poetry here that is political, but this is not a polemical book; it is a poetry book. While conscious of their roots, the artists are equally conscious of living in the contemporary world—fully engaged with the possibilities of subject and language. The variety is tantalizing.
There are sonnets and a sestina; poems about traveling and living overseas; poems rooted in the natural world and poems embedded in suburbia; poems nourished by life on the U.S.–Mexico border and poems electrified by living in Chicago or Los Angeles or San Francisco or New York City. Some of the poetry is traditional; some is avant-garde; some is informed by traditional poetry in Spanish; some follows English forms that are hundreds of years old. There are love poems, spells that defy logic, flashes of hope, and moments of loss. In short, this is the rich and varied poetry of young, talented North American Latinos and Latinas.
“The poets in this anthology seem as though they just want to write poems, not specifically Latino poems. They are much too cross-pollinated for that—we all are, if truth be told—which is what makes that synthesis possible, the marvelous marbling at the core." —Aleida Rodríguez, author of Garden of Exile
“Here it is again, the shock of the new, eager as always to unsettle the present, to reconfigure the past while redefining the future. Ah, the impetus of the young!” —Ilan Stavans
“At last, a 21st century anthology that confirms the breadth and depth and diversity of contemporary Latino/a writing. The poems in this collection defy any stereotypes about ‘Latino poetry’ and testify to the rich variousness of the American Latino/a experience. Readers—rejoice!" —Valerie Martínez, author of Absence, Luminescent and World to World
“With jagged beauty, this collection expands our consciousness—documents and honors lives often absent from American poetry. In these pages, we join souls in struggle, almas luchando." —Pat Mora
"The title of the ravishing collection of poems by 25 Latino and Latina writers can be read as an allusion to change and to the fact that poetry is a force, like wind, that knows know borders. Whether inspired by family, love, despair, poems by Rilke, or a painting by Jose Clemente Orozco, the poets gathered here are involved in the infinite possibilities of language."
— Booklist
"This is a compelling and exhilarating addition to Latino letters."� El Paso Times
Lisa Alvarado
By: Jennie,
on 1/29/2008
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kimmie66 Aaron Alexovitch
In this latest Minx offering, Telly is a 23rd century girl who (like most people) spends all of her time in the lairs—themed virtual reality environments. When she receives a suicide note from her best friend, Telly is devastated, but confused. Telly wouldn’t put it past Kimmie to fake the whole thing as a prank, plus there is the little problem of the fact that Telly has no idea what Kimmie’s real name is or where she lives or anything about her life outside the liars.
Exploring a life lived entirely on the virtual realm, Alexovitch explores the thin line between reality and virtual reality and asks what is real and what isn’t. Although the ending contains a slight message to “stop and smell the un-virtualized roses,” this is one of the strongest titles of the Minx line.
First Kiss (Then Tell): A Collection of True Lip-Locked Moments ed. Cylin Busby
This is a cute collection of short vignettes about first kisses. The range and caliber of young adult authors included is impressive (Jon Scieszka, Shannon (and Dean!) Hale, Nikki Grimes, Naomi Shihab Nye and Scott Westerfield--just to name a few.) The stories range from hilarious to heart-breaking, heart-stopping to disgusting. The anthology contains quotations from movie stars as well as kissing trivia interspersed with the stories, poems and comics.
Overall, it’s a very enjoyable, sweet read that puts the pain, romance, and laughter back into kissing, without the pressure of going further. A sure-hit for the chick-lit crowd.
By: Lisa Alvarado,
on 1/22/2008
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Look for it on February 15, 2008. Rudy is a bilingual teacher in Denver and wrote "LAX Confidential" while Manuel Ramos, author of several crime-fiction novels and the Director of Advocacy for Colorado Legal Services, wrote "The 405 is Locked Down." The anthology can be pre-ordered from Tattered Cover, et al., in hardcover or trade paperback.
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Leah America (US) seeks essays from people working in the sex industry for an anthology on the sex industry. Encourages submissions from current and former strippers, erotic dancers, phone sex personalities, hookers, or those with a promiscuous lifestyle. Length: 3000 words max. Deadline: March 31, 2008. Payment: one copy. No reading/publishing fees. More details...
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By: Lisa Alvarado,
on 2/13/2008
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Palabra Pura, Chicago's home for cutting edge, innovative Latino poetry is evolving in exciting ways, with its 2008 calendar of stellar talent solidly in place. While still basing itself at the California Clipper, Palabra Pura will begin to also hold events at Latino venues throughout the city. This month, join nationally know poet and performer, Tim Z. Hernandez and Chicago actor, poet and activist, Stephanie Gentry-Fernandez.
Wednesday,
February 20th. 8 pm Decima Musa Restaurant
1901 S. Loomis, St. Chicago, IL
About the poets: Tim Z. Hernandez is a writer and performer originally from central California. His writing and performance texts have appeared in numerous anthologies and publications, and his performances featured at prestigious venues across the nation, including: LA’s Getty Center Museum, The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Stanford University, and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. In the past, he has been commissioned by major groups such as the United Way of Greater Los Angeles to write and perform his original plays on issues of homelessness and poverty. Currently, he’s working in tandem with Poets & Writers Inc, and California Center for the Book, offering bilingual poetry workshops across the United States.
He is the recipient of several notable awards including: 2006 American Book Award for his debut collection of poetry Skin Tax, San Francisco Foundation’s James Duval Phelan Award, a Best Solo Production Award for his one man show, Diaries of a Macho, and the Zora Neal Hurston Award for writers of color dedicated to their communities. In the interest of artistic development, Hernandez’s focus is on excavating stories that bring to light the limitless potential of the human capacity, stories of physical and metaphysical journeys, with special attention to marginalized populations. When he’s not busy teaching creative writing and performance, he’s touring the country, collaborating with his word-music-theater collective, Brown Lotus, and offering workshops to Universities, arts groups, cultural centers, foundations, and libraries. Tim holds a B.A. in Writing & Literature from Naropa University, the first accredited Buddhist School in the west.
Currently, he resides in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and two daughters.
What People Are Saying About Tim Z. Hernandez
"Tim Hernandez is one of the finest and most exciting new talents to emerge from the new generation of Latino writers!”- Bloomsbury Review, Ray Gonzalez
“It’s too reductionistic to call Tim Hernandez a performance poet…though his voice and rhythms surely benefit from the energy behind a microphone, the complexity of his ideas merit the slower pace study made possible through the written pages of Skin Tax.” - El Paso Times Book Review Rigoberto Gonzalez
“Tim Hernandez is a dynamic force as a writer and performer!” - Gary Soto Author of, Nickel & Dime
“Hernandez is a poet of obvious and quickly realized skills…his images are brilliant, sharp, and concise, his language spare yet rich. Poetry of the here and now, Brown Lotus is the kind of task that should have been undertaken long ago!” -Amiri Baraka, Author of, Transbluesency
“I like Tim’s boldness, his willingness to be raw and trust the content of the poem to make it real and legitimate, his words sizzle and spark with excitement, targeting with a relentless passion his desire to express what he is trying to convey.” - Jimmy Santiago Baca, Author of, A Place To Stand
“[Tim Hernandez] …represents a whole new direction in the Latino literary world!” - Juan Felipe Herrera, Author of, Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler, and 185 Reasons Mexicans Can't Cross the Border
“[Skin Tax] is poetry not for delicate sensibilities, unafraid, it dares to stand out and speak of subjects commonly eschewed by other poets.” - Midwest Book Review
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Stephanie Gentry-Fernandez is a poet and performer from the South Side whose male side you may recognize from Teatro Luna's recent production of "Machos." She has a deep personal commitment to anti-oppression work and currently works at the Broadway Youth Center.
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Letras Latinas, The Wind Shifts and a National Tour!
The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry ON TOUR
“In the hour of extremes, long live these brave wordsmiths of American letters.”
— Sandra Cisneros
February 23, 2008, Palm Beach, FL
@The Society of the Four Arts
Eduardo C. Corral
Kevin A. González
Sheryl Luna
Kevin A. González
Sheryl Luna
May 31, 2008, Minneapolis, MN
@The Loft Literary Center
Urayoán Noel
Carl Marcum
Adela Najarro
Emmy Pérez
September 25, 2008, Seattle, WA
@Richard Hugo House
Richard Blanco
María Meléndez
Steven Cordova
Deborah Parédez
“The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry ON TOUR” is supported in part by the Ford Foundation, JP Morgan Chase, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Southwest Airlines through a grant from the NALAC Fund for the Arts.
Letras Latinas is the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. The Guild Complex is a community-based literary organization in Chicago.
The Wind Shifts gathers, for the first time, works by emerging Latino and Latina poets in the twenty-first century. Here readers will discover 25 new and vital voices including Naomi Ayala, Richard <!--- inline quote --->The writers included in this volume have published poetry in well-regarded literary magazines. Some have published chapbooks or first collections, but none had published more than one book at the time of selection. This results in a freshness that energizes the enterprise. Certainly there is poetry here that is political, but this is not a polemical book; it is a poetry book. While conscious of their roots, the artists are equally conscious of living in the contemporary world—fully engaged with the possibilities of subject and language. The variety is tantalizing.
There are sonnets and a sestina; poems about traveling and living overseas; poems rooted in the natural world and poems embedded in suburbia; poems nourished by life on the U.S.–Mexico border and poems electrified by living in Chicago or Los Angeles or San Francisco or New York City. Some of the poetry is traditional; some is avant-garde; some is informed by traditional poetry in Spanish; some follows English forms that are hundreds of years old. There are love poems, spells that defy logic, flashes of hope, and moments of loss. In short, this is the rich and varied poetry of young, talented North American Latinos and Latinas.
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ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGY
ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGY
“In the hour of extremes, long live these brave wordsmiths of American letters. Hallowed be the poets when the news is diffused in the name of susto. Viva the citizens of truth. Hallelujah the devotees of language, the languished souls enamored of the syllable.” —Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
“The poets in this anthology seem as though they just want to write poems, not specifically Latino poems. They are much too cross-pollinated for that—we all are, if truth be told—which is what makes that synthesis possible, the marvelous marbling at the core." —Aleida Rodríguez, author of Garden of Exile
“Here it is again, the shock of the new, eager as always to unsettle the present, to reconfigure the past while redefining the future. Ah, the impetus of the young!” —Ilan Stavans
“At last, a 21st century anthology that confirms the breadth and depth and diversity of contemporary Latino/a writing. The poems in this collection defy any stereotypes about ‘Latino poetry’ and testify to the rich variousness of the American Latino/a experience. Readers—rejoice!" —Valerie Martínez, author of Absence, Luminescent and World to World
“With jagged beauty, this collection expands our consciousness—documents and honors lives often absent from American poetry. In these pages, we join souls in struggle, almas luchando." —Pat Mora
"The title of the ravishing collection of poems by 25 Latino and Latina writers can be read as an allusion to change and to the fact that poetry is a force, like wind, that knows know borders. Whether inspired by family, love, despair, poems by Rilke, or a painting by Jose Clemente Orozco, the poets gathered here are involved in the infinite possibilities of language."
— Booklist
"This is a compelling and exhilarating addition to Latino letters."� El Paso Times
Lisa Alvarado
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By: bfletcher,
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Dark Scribe Press (US) seeks short story submissions for an anthology of queer horror tales: Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet (publication: late 2008). Looking for edgy, provocative dark genre fiction – horror and dark psychological suspense only. No sci-fi/fantasy/mystery. Seeks stories about those terrors that populate the closets of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. Length: 1000-7500 words. Email queries only to: [email protected]. Deadline: May 15, 2008. Once query receives a green light, the submissions deadline is June 30, 2008. Payment: US$.05 per word upon acceptance. More details...
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Arsenal Pulp Press (BC) seeks short stories for an upcoming collection: Queer Utopias: A Science Fiction Anthology (publication Spring 2009). Looking for stories from science fiction writers who want to explore the implications of sexuality or for stories rooted in a queer/feminist background that are imagining a desirable (or perhaps undesirable, to some or all) future. Actively interested in submissions from non-North American writers, but preference given to Canadian writers. Story length: 10000 words max. Submission instructions: Title the file with author's last name and story title in the file name: Surname-Title.doc; include name, mailing/email address, and bio within the .doc file with your piece (submissions will be separated from emails to be read); and submit as an attachment in .doc format, to [email protected]. Payment: honorarium and one copy of the book. Deadline: May 15, 2008.
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Wolsak and Wynn (ON) invites poetry, non-fiction and anthology manuscript submissions. Send 15-20 sample pages of poetry with a letter of enquiry. Authors receive royalties annually on books sold, at a rate of 10% of list price. Deadline: March 31, 2008. More details...
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Not a whole lot of news on this front, just some reviews:
In this latest Minx offering, Telly is a 23rd century girl who (like most people) spends all of her time in the lairs—themed virtual reality environments. When she receives a suicide note from her best friend, Telly is devastated, but confused. Telly wouldn’t put it past Kimmie to fake the whole thing as a prank, plus there is the little problem of the fact that Telly has no idea what Kimmie’s real name is or where she lives or anything about her life outside the liars.
Exploring a life lived entirely on the virtual realm, Alexovitch explores the thin line between reality and virtual reality and asks what is real and what isn’t. Although the ending contains a slight message to “stop and smell the un-virtualized roses,” this is one of the strongest titles of the Minx line.
This is a cute collection of short vignettes about first kisses. The range and caliber of young adult authors included is impressive (Jon Scieszka, Shannon (and Dean!) Hale, Nikki Grimes, Naomi Shihab Nye and Scott Westerfield--just to name a few.) The stories range from hilarious to heart-breaking, heart-stopping to disgusting. The anthology contains quotations from movie stars as well as kissing trivia interspersed with the stories, poems and comics.
Overall, it’s a very enjoyable, sweet read that puts the pain, romance, and laughter back into kissing, without the pressure of going further. A sure-hit for the chick-lit crowd.
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Shameless Magazine is seeking submissions for an anthology for teen girls to be published by Tightrope Books in Spring 2009. Women and trans-identified adults are invited to submit creative non-fiction essays 500-2000 words about how their teen experiences (positive and negative) shaped their lives as as writers. Appreciates a mix of smart, sassy, honest and inclusive writing. Deadline: April 18, 2008. More details...
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Rudy Ch. Garcia y Manuel Ramos have short stories coming up in Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature from Bilingual Press, edited by Daniel Olivas!
Look for it on February 15, 2008. Rudy is a bilingual teacher in Denver and wrote "LAX Confidential" while Manuel Ramos, author of several crime-fiction novels and the Director of Advocacy for Colorado Legal Services, wrote "The 405 is Locked Down." The anthology can be pre-ordered from Tattered Cover, et al., in hardcover or trade paperback.
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Warm weather, the dog days of summer, time to break out the shorts. Nothing more refreshing and cooler than lounging about, unencumbered, with plenty of free time to lounge and let the mind flicker an wander. The perfect time to snack on short stories and other collected short works. I am opening this one to the floor because while I feel I could cover this topic myself I've found myself more
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While there are tons of great things going on between now and fall of 2008, there is something that will occur then that I can announce. Press 53 is going to publish an anthology I've edited with stories surrounding the idea of visiting hours and the dynamics of situtations where one person must stay, and the others involved are only allowed to be present during specific hours.
This anthology has been a long time coming, started back in early 2004 if I remember properly, based on an idea the wonderful author, Amy Koppelman, had. A few stumbling blocks were plowed into along the way, but upon finding out that Press 53 was going to publish the anthology, Surreal South, put together by Pinckney and Laura Benedict, I decided to approach them, seeing as they were at least a little anthology-friendly. Happily, they enjoyed the stories I put together as much as I did, and offered to publish it next fall.
Many more details will come (including the title - there's a working title, but as it's fairly certain it will not end up on the books, I'll not refer to it as such now) over time; far be it from me to not keep you all informed.
I can say now that the collection has stories that will see the light of day for the first time in print, and others that have already seen their time in both literary journals and story collections. The authors involved are:
David Abrams
Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Beth Ann Bauman
James R. Cooley
Quinn Dalton
Philip F. Deaver
Rochelle Distleheim
Pamela Erens
Patry Francis
Joseph Freda
Steven Gillis
Nancy Ginzer
Roberta Israeloff
Kaytie M. Lee
T.M. McNally
Michael Milliken
Jim Nichols
Benjamin Percy
Ron Rash
Bill Roorbach
Max Ruback
Gabriel Welsch
And will have an introduction written by Kyle Minor
More later. Trust me.
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As a middle-grader, my daughter was obsessed with short stories pulled from James Herriot's books. (All Creatures Great and Small, etc.)Short stories for older teens: Connie Willis. Impossible Things has "Even the Queen" (best funny SF story ever about teenage girls and their periods) and "The Last of the Winnebagos" an environmental suspense story. FireWatch has the award-winning title story