My Mind Words Paper:
call for submissions

Deadline: 15 June 2012

The second issue of Bakwa will be themed and its focus will be on conversations/interviews. We are interested in conversations with artists which will highlight the process of creation as well as its impediments and challenges. Our aim is to give an insight to the personality of the artist which is usually obfuscated by art and second-guessed by criticism and speculation. We intend to sort of set the record straight by hearing what the artist has to say, given that the notable Italian semiotician and historian, Umberto Eco, opines that interpretation is indefinite.

We would very much appreciate it if contributors queried us first to inform us about a submission concerning the interviews so that we can talk about the project. Nevertheless, we are still open to the regular features which include— poetry, fiction, photography, art, reviews, memoirs, journalistic pieces, travel writing etc.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries/ submissions: bakwaeditor@gmail.com

Website: http://bakwamagazine.wordpress.com/

Deadline: 15 June 2012

We are pleased to announce a general call for submissions of new plays by writers of Middle-Eastern descent. Submissions will be considered for upcoming programming including the fall reading series, Highlight, as well as possible special events, workshops and commissions.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

· We are accepting plays previously unproduced in New York City;

· Only one submission per writer;

· We are interested the various perspectives of writers of Middle-Eastern descent, whether the plays are Middle-Eastern themed or otherwise.

· Please include the following with each submission: a bio and/or resume, production or development history if applicable; for non-agent submissions, a letter of recommendation from a theatre professional.

The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2012. In an effort to be ecologically responsible, Noor Theatre accepts scripts with all materials in one email to submissions@noortheatre.org. Scripts with all attachments may also be mailed to the address below; please note, they will not be returned:

Noor Theatre – Submissions,
PO Box 1063
New York, NY 10276

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For enquiries/ submissions: submissions@noortheatre.org

Website: http://noortheatre.org/

Deadline: 15 June 2012

For centuries, the Mediterranean Sea has both divided and joined the many disparate nations, cultures, language groups and artistic traditions which flourished in the Mediterranean Basin: the Maghreb, Iberia, Southern Europe, the Balkans, the Levant and Egypt. As a dividing line and barrier to inter-cultural exchange, it has allowed each of these regions and their many cultures to develop unique artistic traditions. As the major feature binding these diverse cultures together, however, it has also facilitated inter-cultural exchange. What happens, then, when these traditions travel, meet and merge with each other? How does the host country adopt and adapt the ideas and aesthetics coming from abroad to its own native tradition?

This volume will look at such pan-Mediterranean artistic exchange (in literature as well as film, painting, music, photography, etc.) produced during or about the Modernist period, roughly the last quarter of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. We welcome papers addressing any aspect of Modernist and avante-garde literature and art on four related themes: first, papers which describe the interaction of two or more Mediterranean artistic traditions (international Futurism, for example, or the reception of French Surrealism in Algeria); second, two or more Mediterranean cultures (Alexandria’s Jewish community or relations between Greeks and Turks in Cyprus); third, depictions of the Mediterranean itself during the period (in, for example, Lawrence Durrell’s Bitter Lemons of Cyprus or Henry Miller’s Colossus of Maroussi); or, fourth, the myriad forms of Modernist and avante-garde art which emerged from a single location (such as Cavafy, Marinetti, Ungaretti and Durrell in Alexandria). Papers on similar themes will also be considered.

Title: The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Modernity

Eds. Adam J. Goldwyn (Uppsala University) and Renee Silverman (Florida International University)

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries: adam.goldwyn@lingfil.uu.se

For submissions: Email one to two page abstracts by June 15 to Dr. Goldwyn at adam.goldwyn@lingfil.uu.se

Deadline: 1 August 2012

Dolls are ubiquitous cultural forms that serve as central objects through which girlhoods everywhere are mediated, constructed, performed, negotiated, and contested. Deconstructing Dolls: The Many Meanings of Girls’ Toys and Play is the first scholarly collection that aims to shed collective light on the meanings of dolls in the lives of girls in the US and around the world. Dolls figure centrally, contextually, and comparatively in this international and interdisciplinary anthology of new doll studies research that ranges from the historical to the contemporary and the material to the virtual.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

The editor seeks essays that expand scholarly inquiry about dolls and doll players across topical, theoretical, evidentiary, methodological, material, disciplinary, national, historiographic, generational, and/or other boundaries, borders, and categories (e.g., race, age, gender, class, caste, ethnicity, sexuality, etc.). Of particular interest are essays that focus on dolls and/or doll players outside the U.S.

SUBMISSION & NOTIFICATIONS:

Authors should send a 250-word proposal, brief bibliography, CV, and contact information to: Miriam Forman-Brunell at Forman-BrunellM@umkc.edu by August 1, 2012. Authors will be notified by August 15, 2012. Essays—between 7,000 – 9,000 words (including references)—will be due February 1, 2013.

BOOK EDITOR: Miriam Forman-Brunell, Ph.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City

PUBLISHER: Peter Lang Press (“Mediated Youth” series, edited by Sharon Mazzarella)

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: Forman-BrunellM@umkc.edu

Website: http://www.peterlang.com/

Deadline: 1 September 2012

Inspired by Simon Ortiz’s “Towards a National Indian Literature: Cultural Authenticity in Nationalism” and Jace Weaver, Craig Womack, and Robert Allen Warrior’s American Indian Literary Nationalism, this collection will be a site for emerging as well as well-known ethnic critics and theorists to illustrate where they see their respective fields heading and construct perspectives outside of western ideologies. This collection will include 5 key areas: African American, Asian American, Latin American, Native American, and Arabic American literature and criticism. The first four areas represent the larger areas of ethnic studies in the academy today and will provide a necessary counter-point to the predominantly western (i.e. white) critical perspectives that populate much of the criticism available to scholars today. And given the rise in anti-Arab racism and attitudes in the popular media in the wake of 9/11, the final area will provide readers with a necessary rebuttal to a popular media that seeks to dehumanize and silence contemporary Arabic voices.

We invite article-length submissions in the following areas:

· The state of ethnic theory/theories--present and future
· Commentary on important moments/critics from the past
· Comparison of theory between ethnic literatures
· Application of theory to ethnic texts (literature, art, music, pop-culture, etc.)
· Application of ethnic theory to non-ethnic texts

Please send submissions and queries regarding specific categories to:

· J. Stephen Pearson stpears11@gmail.com (African American, Asian American, & Latin American)
· Carrie Louise Sheffield carrielouisesheffield@gmail.com (Native American, & Arabic American)
All submissions must be submitted in .docx or .rtf format by 1 September 2012.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: stpears11@gmail.com or carrielouisesheffield@gmail.com

Deadline: 18 June 2012

The second annual Short Story Day Africa is on the 20th of June and is rolling out internationally.

So Black Letter Media and Poetry Potion are teaming up to participate by getting YOU reading and writing! Black Letter Media is passionate about getting you to read work by independent publishers. Poetry Potion is passionate about the growth and development of poetry. And it tune with keeping things short, here's how you can participate in this challenge:

A SHORT STORY AND A SHORT POEM

We want to publish a collection of short stories and short poems on the 20th of June, in ebook format and print on demand. We're accepting stories from all over Africa. You have a choice, you can write a poem or a story or both.

CRITERIA

• Short Story length - maximum 2000 words (min 1000 words)
• Poem length - 30 lines or less.
• Please include a short biography (no more than 200 words), a photograph of yourself, and any links to your author website/books pages or blog, or your publishers site. Links will be authenticated, and any links to other sites will mean your work will not appear.
• Submit in a word document.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: story@blackletterm.com

Website: http://www.poetrypotion.com/, /">http://www.blackletterm.com

Deadline: 15 July 2012

Princesses are significant figures in girl culture, and they have been for at least the last two centuries. This anthology brings together international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the meanings of princesses in girls’ lives historically, currently, and comparatively: We consider how and why princess culture continues to play a role in girls’ lives.

Encompassing pop culture princesses (such as the Disney Princesses and Princess Barbie), fairy tales (and their more recent feminist revisions), and contemporary royal figures (such as Princess Diana and Kate Middleton), among others, this book illuminates the many forms that princess culture has taken across time and space—continuously redrawn and recast, but always enjoying a prominent and privileged position in girls’ everyday lives and fantasy worlds and women’s collective memories.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

The editors are seeking additional scholarly essays that examine the princess as mediating figure in the imaginations and identities of girls in the US and around the world. We are especially interested in essays by scholars researching:

1) princess cultures outside the US
2) historical or contemporary royal figures

Please send a 300-word proposal, a brief bibliography, CV, and contact information to: Miriam Forman Brunell at forman-brunellm@umkc.edu and Rebecca Hains at rhains@salemstate.edu by July 15, 2012.

DUE DATES:

• July 15, 2012: 300-word Proposal deadline
• August 1, 2012: Notification of accepted proposals
• January 15, 2013: Chapter drafts (7,000-9,000 words)

• Miriam Forman-Brunell, Ph.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City
• Rebecca Hains, Ph.D., Salem State University

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: Miriam Forman Brunell at forman-brunellm@umkc.edu and Rebecca Hains at rhains@salemstate.edu

Website: http://www.peterlang.com/

Submissions for American Athenaeum are now open and rolling. We are a print journal, committed to publishing four times a year. The first issue, Colossus, is scheduled for July. The following is the type of work we're seeking. Our finished collections are submitted to literary agents, Best American, PEN American, and the Pushcart Prize.

We are currently seeking fiction, non-fiction, and poetry in the following categories:

• Stories that pay tribute to Japan or other places in the world that have suffered extensive calamities.
• Stories with African-American or Native American, GLBTQ, themes welcome.

MORE INFORMATION ON SUBMITTING

• We accept fiction from authors worldwide. We accept reprints (the world is a big place and we want to help spread your name.) In your query, go ahead and tell us a little about yourself, why the piece is important to you.
• Grant of Rights: Author grants first or reprint rights to American Atheneum to publish in "Issue Name" and only that issue, in print and electronically, worldwide.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For submissions: via submishmash

Website: http://www.swordandsagapress.com

Deadline: 31 August 2012

With the breaking news that Deon Meyer, the King of SA crime fiction, will write a foreword, it’s time to announce a new crime-thriller anthology on the roll for 2013!

After the success of Bad Company, the crime-fiction short story anthology published 2008, which featured the crème de la crime writers of SA, it’s time for a new collection. Oh yes. So this is the call to all writers out there interested in the seamy, nasty, murderous, sometimes all too human side of life, to get writing.

The (working) title is Bloody Satisfied, and the only limit to your imagination must be that Justice is done. With so much bloody crime in South Africa, it’s time we had satisfaction – at least twenty stories worth – with killer tales glinting sharp as knives.

The collection will feature experts at the craft – internationally acclaimed Roger Smith, Sunday Times Fiction Prize shortlisted author Hawa Golakai, Edgar Award nominated Michael Stanley – but we’re looking for new voices.

Kill, steal, maim whomever, whatever, as long as you do it on the page, and as long as the baddie gets a certain comeuppance, legal or otherwise. Oh yes, set in South Africa please. Diversity, of setting and especially voice, will mean the publication of an exciting home-grown collection.

• Word-count: 2500 to 5000
• Submissions: via email to joanne.hichens@gmail.com
• Editing: October/ November
• Publication date: March 2013
• Publisher: Mercury

For queries/ submissions: joanne.hichens@gmail.com

Website: http://joannehichens.bookslive.co.za

Deadline: 11 June 2012

In the last two decades, there has been an exponential growth in the visibility of a new generation of women visual artists on or from the continent of Africa as well as a diversification not only in the medium but also in the breadth and complexity of the themes and issues with which they engage, which include the body, sexuality as well as questions of history, culture, patriarchy and post-colonialism. The aim of the volume is to look at women artists’ production across the over 50 countries that make up the continent of Africa as well as at African women artists working in Europe, South and North America and the Caribbean. The African diaspora is diverse stretching across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, the Americas and across Europe.

Women artists from Africa, and of African descent, have been producing work which questions and challenges both their contemporary situation and their complex histories. This special volume will publish work which addresses these concerns and focuses on the cultural production of women artists who define themselves as black/African/Afro-Caribbean/Afro-American across the globe as well as first/second/third/and even fourth generations of immigrants in different countries. Contributions about contemporary art produced by women which reflect on the effects of the migration of African people around the world – during and after slavery – during and after Colonialism –pre- and post-1960s Independence – will be welcomed.

Critical essays as well as in-depth interviews offering a pan- or trans-African perspective on contemporary women artists (visual arts only, post-1970) will be welcomed from women artists or writers (art historians, critics and curators). We invite 300-400 words abstract by the 11th of June 2012 (Final contributions by Oct 15th 2012). For more information about how to contribute please email Bisi Silva labisi22@gmail.com

ABOUT N.PARADOXA: INTERNATIONAL FEMINIST ART JOURNAL

Founded in 1998, n.paradoxa publishes scholarly and critical articles written by women critics, art historians and artists on the work of contemporary women artists post-1970 (visual arts only) working anywhere in the world. Each thematic volume in print contains artists and authors from more than 10 countries in the world and explores their work in relation to feminist theory.

n.paradoxa is published bi-annually (January and July) in print as volume numbers (ISSN: 1461-0424). n.paradoxa is now available for sale in print and electronic forms by subscription. KT press is the publisher of n.paradoxa and operates as a not-for-profit publishing company whose aim is to promote understanding of women artists and their work.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries/ submissions: labisi22@gmail.com

Website: http://www.ktpress.co.uk/

Deadline: 3 September 2012

Editors Carolyne Wright and Eugenia Toledo invite women poets of all nationalities, backgrounds and job descriptions to submit up to 5 poems for an anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace. Send hard copies to Carolyne Wright, 13741 15th Avenue NE, #C-7, Seattle, WA 98125 USA.

This anthology invites poems of women who have occupied spaces in the work force, and have contended with pay and promotion inequity, workplace harassment and intimidation, and all matters relevant to women in an increasingly globalized workplace, including the joy and satisfaction of work well done. Such issues may include instances of women’s employment advantages over males and other non-minorities—any preferential treatment of women in hiring and promotion, for example. How can women tell their workplace stories in poetry, and be agents of change, locally and globally, in these difficult economic times? Poems in English and in translation from any other language are welcome.

FULL GUIDELINES

• Poems may be unpublished or previously published in magazines, anthologies, or books, but contributors must have the rights and waive fees for republication.
• Submissions up to 5 poems. Please mail in hard copy, with your contact data in a cover letter and your name on each page of poetry. No need to include an SASE—we will email our responses, requesting accepted poems along with bio and statement to be sent electronically.
• Poems may be originally written in a language than English, but originals should be sent with their translations.
• Provide a 75-word bio in the cover letter, followed by a brief statement of your involvement in work on behalf of women.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: carolyne.eulene@juno.com

Website: http://www.losthorsepress.org

All fiction must be submitted through our online submission system, located at nightmare-magazine.com/submissions. Please do not email your submissions.

Our submissions form asks for your name, email address, cover letter, story title, and story. Your cover letter should contain the length of your story, your publishing history, and any other relevant information (e.g, if you send us a psychological horror story about serial killers and your doctoral dissertation was on the psychology of serial killers, mention that). All stories should be in standard manuscript format and can be submitted in either .RTF or .DOC format. Email submissions@nightmare-magazine.com for all fiction-related inquiries, or if you have any trouble using our online submission system (but please DO NOT email your submissions to this address).

After you have submitted your story, a tracking number will be displayed and an automated email confirmation containing this information will be sent to you. If you have not received this email submissions@nightmare-magazine.com to let us know. Your tracking number will allow you to monitor the status of your submission through our website, so please make note of it.

GUIDELINES FOR ORIGINAL FICTION

Nightmare is seeking original horror and dark fantasy stories of 1500-7500 words. Stories of 5000 words or less are preferred. We pay 5¢/word for original fiction, on acceptance. To see which rights we're seeking, please view our contract template for original fiction.

All types of horror or dark fantasy are welcome; if in doubt, go ahead and submit it and let our editors decide. No subject should be considered off-limits, and we encourage writers to take chances with their fiction and push the envelope.

We believe that the horror genre's diversity is its greatest strength, and we wish that viewpoint to be reflected in our story content and our submission queues; we welcome submissions from writers of every race, religion, nationality, gender, and sexual orientation.

GUIDELINES FOR REPRINTS

Nightmare publishes two reprints each month, but it is primarily a market for original fiction; a majority of our reprints will be directly solicited, but you may submit a reprint for consideration if you wish. For reprints, we are offering 1¢/word, on acceptance. However, we are only interested in considering stories for reprint that are not currently available online in any form. To see which rights we're seeking, please view our contract template for reprinted fiction.

REJECTIONS & RESPONSE TIMES

Be aware that every month we expect to receive several hundred submissions. As such, we cannot offer personalized feedback on each story. If we say, "send more," however, it does mean that we hope to see something else from you.

Most rejections will be sent out within two business days, while stories being seriously considered may be held for up to two weeks.

Please do not respond to rejection letters, even just to say “Thanks for the quick turnaround” etc. We appreciate the thought, but it is unnecessary and will just clutter up our editorial inbox.

SUMMARY

Stories should belong to the horror genre, and between 1500 and 7500 words long. Stories of 5000 words or less are preferred.

Payment for original fiction is 5¢/word, on acceptance. To see which rights we're seeking, please view our contract template for original fiction.

Payment for reprinted fiction is 1¢/word, on acceptance. To see which rights we're seeking, please view our contract template for reprinted fiction.

ADDITIONAL NOTES

Sexual themes and stories with strong sexual content are acceptable, but Nightmare is not a market for erotica.

Nightmare is not a market for media-based fiction (i.e., stories set in the Hellraiser or Buffy the Vampire Slayer universes, etc.), or any kind of fan fiction.

Nightmare is not a market for poetry.

We do not accept simultaneous submissions or multiple submissions.

Do not query for fiction. If you're not sure if your story is suitable, please simply submit it and let our editors decide.

If editor John Joseph Adams has previously rejected your story, please do not submit it to Nightmare, unless it was rejected as being unsuitable for the market (due to theme, etc.) or unless it has been significantly revised to the extent that it is no longer the same story.

You may not submit another story for a period of seven days after receiving a rejection.

Nightmare pays professional rates for fiction (5 cents per word), in accordance with both HWA's and SFWA's guidelines for professional publications. Please note that SFWA's bylaws indicate that a market must be publishing continuously for at least one year before it can become a SFWA-qualifying professional market, though all sales made during the first year will be retroactively determined to be professional sales and thus SFWA-qualifying. (So Nightmare would become a SFWA-qualifying market in October 2013, pending SFWA board approval, and all sales made in the intervening period would retroactively become qualifying publications.)

Via: zombietalk

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries: submissions@nightmare-magazine.com

For submissions: via the online submissions system

Website: http://nightmare-magazine.com/

Deadline: 1 August 2012

We are currently accepting submissions for our upcoming anthology.

Please note: If you have previously sent a submission and have not received a response please resend your submission. A technical issue has prevented CP from receiving these emails. Send all submissions to readmynovel [at] gmail [dot] com.

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY:

We are looking for short fiction with SF/Fantasy themes and are open to all interpretations. Whether it's new worlds, alternate universes, fairies, vampires, werewolves, etc. we want the reader to explore new worlds and meet new people (or half people!). We’d like to include stories with a wide range of appeal to both young adult readers as well as adult lovers of SF/Fantasy. All submissions must be free from explicit content and meet the guidelines below. The themes stitching these stories together are fantasy and science fiction.

GUIDELINES:

• Short Story word count between 500 words and 7,000 words
• Poetry word count: no limit (for Inspirational/Christian anthology)
• No s3x scenes
• Previously published stories are accepted as long as you have the rights to them.

• Author name
• A short author bio (for the website)
• Word count
• Title of the story
• Genre of anthology you are submitting for (Historical, YA, SF/Fantasy, Children's, or Inspirational)
• Your email address
• Your story

If your story is accepted for one of our anthologies you will be notified by email. Upon notification you will then receive a submission/publishing agreement. If you agree to the terms sign the agreement and return it to Chamberton Publishing. Once we have the signed agreement, the payment for your story will be made.

OTHER INFORMATION:

• You keep the copyright to your story.
• You can republish it at any time.
• You give Chamberton Publishing the right to publish in the anthology in ebook and/or print.
• Your name will appear in the anthology and on the Chamberton Publishing website.
• You will be paid for your story.
• Publication dates for each anthology to be determined.

• 500 to 2500 words - $50
• 2501 to 5000 words - $75
• 5001 to 7000 words - $100

To submit your story send in an attachment by email to readmynovel [at] gmail [dot] com

*Chamberton Publishing does not accept, nor will we consider, manuscripts with dem0nic, witchcraft, or occult themes, nor do we accept er0tica.

Chamberton understands the commitment and dedication it takes to write, edit, and polish a manuscript. We also understand the dream of every writer to see their book in print. Unfortunately, we are not accepting submissions for novels, novellas, or non fiction at this time.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: readmynovel@gmail.com

Website: http://www.chambertonpublishing.com

Deadline: 31 July 2012

There is a saying that poverty breeds innovation. Perhaps this could also be said of injustice. As human beings, our will to survive against all odds is one of our most distinct characteristics. For people who face oppression, discrimination, and limited visibility, staying merely alive is an everyday achievement and many people manage to go even further, finding astonishing ways to rise above these limitations. Because people are silenced does not mean they are mute, because they are ignored does not mean they are inactive/dormant or unaccomplished.

The fifth issue of Q-zine is proud to showcase LGBTI and queer African innovators and creators who are making their visions a reality. We are looking for young LGBTI and queer people in Africa and the Diaspora who are moving, shaking, setting trends and making a difference in their lives and in their communities. Young LGBTI and queer Africans, both on the continent and in the Diaspora, who are artists, writers, bloggers, poets, singers, dancers, musicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, designers, photographers, film makers, journalists, teachers, activists, or innovators in any other creative field are all welcome to the celebration.

Please share your story with us. We are excited to profile our young leaders in multiple formats – essay, profile, interview, video, poetry, photography, painting, drawing, or any combination.

Let’s show our talents in all their queerness. Bring the best, brightest, and most creative works and ideas of LGBTI and queer Africans to share with the world!

Text submissions should be between 500 and 1,500 words. Art submissions (photos, paintings, drawings, video) should include a brief (100-300 word) commentary and a caption for each artwork submitted.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: mkonommoja@gmail.com, abataylor@gmail.com or charles.gueboguo@gmail.com

Website: http://www.qayn-center.org/

Scifia is a science fiction publishing entity committed to promoting best practices among human beings for furthering the development of the consciousness and technological prowess of the human race.

THE YES-YES LIST

Scifia is open to most subgenres. This includes hard scifi, political scifi, psychological scifi, sci-comedy, sci-horror, and sociological scifi. However, we are actively seeking submissions of the following kinds:

• Alien protagonist – Any story where the main character is an alien, particularly those told from the alien’s POV
• Alternate universe – Any story for which the many worlds theory has to be true within the universe of the story or any alternate history story which does not fall into a category on the NO-NO list (see below)
• Cyber – Any story where if someone asked you what subgenre your story fits into, you could easily fit a “cyber” into your description
• Elections – Alien elections, intergalactic elections, elections of military leaders, elections of humans to political office etc.
• Extinct creatures – Any science fiction story featuring an organism currently known or believed to be extinct
• GLBTQI – Any science fiction story featuring a main character who is gay, lesbian, transgendered, queer, intersex or otherwise possessed of a sexuality, sexual morphology, gender identity or gender expression which is not describable as “heterosexual,” “male,” “female,” “man,” or “woman” as traditionally misunderstood.
• Time travel – Yes, we want time travel stories. Believe it or not. But please no: grandfather paradoxes, “Time Patrol” rip-offs, or stories where the invention of time travel requires that time travel already exists

If you have a great story that you think would be suitable for Scifia, click the "Submit to Scifia" button below. You will be taken directly to our submission form.

Do not include a bio or history of prior publication. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of quality and marketability.

HOW CAN I MAXIMIZE MY CHANCES OF GETTING A STORY ACCEPTED?

When reviewing works of science fiction, our editor has two fundamental questions in mind:

• Is this an example of good writing in general?
• Is this story enhanced in a meaningful way by its science fiction element(s)?

THE NO-NO LIST

Please do not send:

• 2nd person POV stories
• American Civil War alternate history stories
• Any story featuring elves, fairies, gnomes etc. in a purely fantasy setting
• Any story featuring vampires of any kind in any setting
• Any story making more than passing reference to the “laws of robotics”
• Fan fiction of any kind
• FanboyZ in space!
• Grandfather paradoxes
• Poetry (unless you are Rimbaud or Bukowski)
• Pure horror
• Stories without a clear beginning, middle and end

HOW DO I GET PAID?

Authors will be paid $25 via PayPal upon acceptance, for any story of any length.

Royalty pay is on the following schedule:

An ISSUE is any collection of stories and/or articles packaged together for sale in any electronic or print format, with the exception of the Scifia website(s) and any Scifia related promotional materials.

For any author who submits an accepted story prior to September 1, 2012 a 30% royalty on net receipts for any Scifia ISSUE within which the accepted work appears will be split equally between authors contributing to that ISSUE. This royalty will be paid on a quarterly basis for twelve months following the first publication of said story in any ISSUE in which it appears.

If you are thinking about submitting a work that has not been previously published, keep in mind that most publications will not publish pieces that have been previously published in print, eBook, or on the web. After we publish your work, it can only be marketed as a reprint. This severely limits the number of markets that will accept it, and drastically reduces the pay rate it can receive. It is up to you, as an author who has likely worked many hours to produce your work, to decide if publishing your piece in ebook, epub, ibook, audiobook, podcast and/or webcomic format(s), and giving up your First Publishing Right for a mere $25 and your share of 30% of net receipts, is really what you want to do.

WHAT RESPONSE TIME SHOULD I EXPECT?

You should receive word regarding your submission within four weeks of sending your initial email. If you have not heard back in four weeks time, you should inquire at: submissions@scifia.com.

SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS AND PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED STORIES

Simultaneous submissions are discouraged. That said, we have no problem publishing a story that is going to appear in another publication or that has already done so. What we don’t want is the scenario where we suddenly find out that we cannot publish a story that you submitted and we accepted without incurring a large headache. Let us know immediately if a story you have submitted to Scifia has been accepted elsewhere.

RIGHTS

Upon acceptance of your submission, Scifia reserves the NONEXCLUSIVE right to publish your content for sale in any format, including but not limited to ebook, epub, ibook, audiobook, podcast and webcomic. You retain the right to do the same and to sell anyone else the NONEXCLUSIVE right to also publish your work. We do not even ask that you refrain from self-publishing your content during any period of time. (Courtesy link-backs, however, are always appreciated, where applicable.) Go ahead and sell yourself. We will sell you too.

Scifia will make no substantive alterations to your work’s text or title without your express approval.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries: submissions@scifia.com

For submissions: via submishmash

Website: http://www.scifia.com/

Deadline: 31 August 2012

Colleagues are warmly invited to submit contributions for volume 13 of New Readings, to be published no later than 31 August 2013. Contributions should be received by 31 August 2012, so that the editorial decision can be communicated before 30 November 2012.

New Readings is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal publishing original research in the fields of European literature, cultural history, film and visual culture. European here is understood as broadly as possible in terms of its geographical spread and its linguistic base. Francophone Africa and the Americas, for example, are therefore included in the journal’s scope. The journal has a strong, but by no means exclusive interest in publishing papers which examine the links between Europe and the wider world, and in interdisciplinary scholarship.

Solicited and contributed manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the conventions of MLA style, as specified in MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th edition, 2009) or MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (3rd edition, 2008). A brief overview with examples can be found here.

The recommended word-count for submissions is 6,000-8,000 (including footnotes and Works Cited).

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: submission is directly through the New Readings website

Website: http://ojs.cf.ac.uk/index.php/newreadings/

Deadline: 1 July 2012

Corruption is an inevitable part of political life, in countries rich and poor. In India, a Transparency International study finds that 55 percent of citizens have had firsthand experience with bribing government officials. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, storeowners pay police officers protection money to “watch over” their shops. And in the United States, corruption has become a high, if hidden, art, with politicians and lobbyists conspiring to rewrite the rules to grant special interest groups an unfair advantage in the marketplace.

But in recent years, advancing technology and increased public awareness have changed the ways that corruption is tackled, exposed, and ultimately punished. In India, almost a quarter of the country’s members of parliament were recently facing criminal corruption charges, and a strong case can be made that the evolving digital news environment is responsible for their undoing. Websites like Wikileaks have made it easier for whistleblowers to bring misdeeds to light — while also weakening the secrecy that governments argue is necessary for their diplomacy and strategizing.

This month, In The Fray wants your stories of corruption — political and otherwise. Tell us the ways that dishonesty and greed undermine the proper workings of organizations, from Congress to corporations, from regulations to relationships. Is corruption an inevitable human tendency or a curable condition? As usual, we are open to stories that deal with the topic broadly construed, and in a variety of approaches: profiles, interviews, reportage, personal essays, op-eds, travel writing, photo essays, artwork, videos, multimedia projects, and review essays of books, film, music, and art.

If interested, please email submissions@inthefray.org with a well-developed, one-paragraph pitch for your proposed piece as soon as possible — along with three links to your previous work — NO LATER THAN JULY 1, 2012. All contributors are urged to review our submissions guidelines at http://inthefray.org/submit.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: submissions@inthefray.org

Website: http://inthefray.org

BLACKBERRY: a magazine aims to be a premier literary magazine featuring African-American women writers and artists*. Its goal is to expose readers to the diversity of the black woman's experience and strengthen the black female voice in both the mainstream and independent markets.

BLACKBERRY: a magazine is seeking all forms of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, artwork and photography. However, we are not interested in science fiction, fantasy, or derivative fiction. We are open to spiritual pieces regardless of faith, sect or denomination.

We are interested in work that goes beneath the surface and touches the spirit. Your work should explore the universal truths of life while showing the diversity of our experiences.

With all submissions please send a 50 word bio with a website you would like promoted should we accept your work.

You may submit up to 3 poems not exceeding 1500 words.

All other forms: no more than 2 pieces not exceeding 4000 words.

Artwork must be 2-dimensional, in color or black-and-white, 300 dpi or higher. If applicable, include captions.

All submissions should be inspired by the issue's theme, usually a key word or phrase, that is open to interpretation by the artist.

Compensation is in the form of a contributor's copy.

Please send all submissions using Submishmash.

Everything will be read, and the most compelling selected. We look forward to reading your work!

*While Blackberry's main focus is on black female writers and artists, we will not automatically dismiss work based on ethnic or racial identity. If the magazine and its themes speak to you, please submit!

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For submissions: via submishmash

Website: http://blackberrylitmag.tumblr.com

This is a call for writers who share a passionate interest in art, design and visual culture. The AF Project is in English and the journal is intended to be broad with an international focus.

"The AF Project" (www.theafproject.com) is the online journal of Art Founders Inc. and its subsidiary groups. The AF Project publishes on a broad range of subjects, genres and forms. These include scholarly articles, interviews, conversations, speculations and artists’ projects. Artists, scholars, critics, graduate students and other prospective contributors who share a passionate interest in art, design and visual culture are encouraged to submit their written work for publication.

The call would be ongoing. Please let me know if you have any questions.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: contact Ingrid Van Haastrecht at ingrid@artfounders.com

Website: http://theafproject.com/

Deadline: 15 August 2012

UCT’s Centre for African Studies and its interdisciplinary postgraduate, peer-reviewed journal, postamble, invite you to submit papers, photographic essays and book reviews that address the formations and expressions of counter- cultures in Africa.

We understand ‘counter-cultures’ as zones of emergent response, constituting a range of practices, representations and performances, produced by varying narratives and realities. We see counter-cultures as movements that may begin in the fringes of normative society and politics, but that gather momentum and begin to rival the status quo in visible and powerful ways. We think of counter-cultures as the catalysts for social, political and cultural action and change.

postamble welcomes graduate submissions that raise questions about counter-cultures in contemporary Africa. We are interested, but not limited to, submissions that engage with the following fields of enquiry:

• Visual and literary cultures and new medias that seek to challenge traditional or inherited forms, themes, approaches and expectations to art, culture and/ or society

• Revolutionary movements: violent and non-violent responses to state power

• The philosophy of change and the idea of the ‘zeitgeist’

• Everyday practices that undermine, subvert and/or challenge existing power structures and discourses

• Patterns of social response that act as catalysts for change

• Visible and invisible forms of protest

• Shifting forms and modes of social habitation, especially in urban areas

• The use (or misuse) of the public archive

• Post-colonial queer culture, rights and spaces

• Changes within religious models, practices and approaches to worship

• Civil and grass-roots movements

• Musical forms and representations

• Advances in alternative sciences and technologies

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 August 2012

postamble publishes original graduate research of a high standard. Long papers should be between 5000 and 8000 words, short submissions between1500 and 3000 words; photographic essays –min 5, and maximum 10 photographs and 1000-1200 words. Emailed submission should be addressed to ‘The Managing Editor’, and sent to postamble@gmail.com or cas-postamble@uct.ac.za. Please ensure all submissions contain a short abstract (200 words), biography (50 words), with relevant contact details. For correct formatting, please see Submissions on our website: www.postamble.org

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: postamble@gmail.com

Website: www.postamble.org