Deadline: 20 July 2012

This is a general issue open to all high-quality essays that focus on Asian American Literature in a way that would be useful for our broad readership of both students and teachers. We are especially interested in essays that provide insights into the teaching of various kinds of Asian American literature and culture.

AALDP is an online journal accessible to all readers without any subscription fees or required membership in proprietary databases. However, we are indexed by proprietary databases in our discipline. We accept and even encourage full color images as long as the author gains permission to have these images displayed on the web. Authors retain copyright of their own work through a Creative Commons licensing agreement.

For consideration in the 2013 volume, we would appreciate that you submit double-spaced essays in MLA-style format and without your name on the document itself by July 20, 2012 so that we can begin the peer review process.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries: Noelle.Brada-Williams@sjsu.edu

For submissions: click here

Website:http://onlinejournals.sjsu.edu/index.php/AALDP/index

Love books? Have strong opinions? Excited to share your thoughts?

Hyphen’s books editors, Cathlin and Abigail, are looking for writers to review newly released books of all genres for the Hyphen blog. Reviews are 600-900 words. They must be thoughtful and well-written, and can be either personal or academic in style. We do not limit coverage to works by Asian American authors. We also encourage reviews of any book from an Asian American perspective, or of books which merit strong interest from the Asian American community. We provide a monthly list of available review copies from which reviewers can select.

Book reviewers will also have the chance to pitch articles and author interviews for both the blog and print issues.

Examples of past reviews include:

Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic by Manan Desai (fiction)

GB Tran’s Vietnamerica by Nawaaz Ahmed (graphic novel)

Anne Elizabeth Moore’s Cambodian Grrrl by Marites L. Mendoza (nonfiction)

Cathlin’s essays and stories have appeared in Hyphen, I Saw My Ex at a Party (Kearny Street Press), Teacher Revised, and ASCD Express. She has performed her work at Kearny Street Workshop’s Apature Festival and San Francisco’s Litquake. A former high school English teacher, she is currently a doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Abigail’s poetry and book reviews have appeared in Calyx, The Critical Flame, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. She received her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and her master’s degree in literature from Oxford University.

If interested, please email Cathlin (cathlin.goulding[at]hyphenmagazine[dot]com) and Abigail (abigail.licad[at]hyphenmagazine[dot]com), and provide two writing samples. If you’ve got ideas for possible articles and author interviews, feel free to share. 

Thanks for your interest and we look forward to hearing from you!

Deadline: 15 March 2012

Editors Dean Francis Alfar (publisher of the Philippine Speculative Fiction anthologies) and Kenneth Yu (publisher of Philippine Genre Stories) announce an open call for short fiction submissions for HORROR: Fantastic Filipino Fiction for Young Adults.

The Fantastic Filipino Fiction for Young Adults is a new annual anthology series, with the first volume focusing on horror, and launching in mid-2012.

Submissions must be:

1. in the horror genre or contain strong horror elements

2. written with the Young Adult reader in mind (from 10 – 18 years old) and feature a young adult character (or characters)

3. cognizant of the themes and concerns of Young Adult fiction (coming of age, identity, belonging, a sense of wonder, a love for adventure, angst, concerns over school, challenges of youth, family issues, relationships to authority figures, sexuality, experimentation, peer pressure, bullying, among many others) – without being didactic and/or boring.

4. written in English

5. authored by Filipinos or those of Philippine ancestry

Submissions are preferred to be:

1. original and unpublished

2. no shorter than 1,000 words and no longer than 7,500

In the case of previously-published work—if accepted, the author will be expected to secure permission to reprint, if necessary, from the original publishing entity, and to provide relevant publication information.

Submission details:

1. No multiple or simultaneous submissions—i.e., submit only one story, and do not submit that story to any other market until you have received a letter of regret from us.

2. All submissions should be in Rich Text Format (saved under the file extension ‘.rtf’), and emailed to dean(at)kestrelddm(dot)com with the subject line ‘FFFH: title (word count)’, where ‘title’ is the title of your submission and ‘(word count)’ is the number of words the submission comes up to, rounded up to the nearest hundred (use the “tools” function of your word processor to find out.

3. Do not use fancy formatting.

4. Include a brief bio and publishing history (if applicable).

5. The deadline for submissions is midnight, Manila time, March 15, 2012. Letters of acceptance or regret will be sent out no later than one month after the deadline.

6. First-time authors are more than welcome to submit; good stories trump literary credentials any time.

Compensation will be Php500 for selected stories. We are still deciding whether to go digital or print (or even both). In the event that we publish a print version, each author will be provided with a contributor’s copy of the book. If the anthology is published in digital form, each author will be given a formatted e-copy of the anthology.

Dean Francis Alfar & Kenneth Yu
Editors
HORROR: Fantastic Filipino Fiction for Young Adults

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries: dean@kestrelddm.com

For submissions: dean@kestrelddm.com

Deadline: 1 May 2012

Call for Submissions: Outlaw Bodies. a themed anthology from The Future Fire

The “Outlaw Bodies” issue of The Future Fire will gather together stories about the future of human bodies that break boundaries—legal, societal, biological, more.

In the future, what sorts of bodies will be expected and which will violate our expectations—of gender, of ability, of appearance, of functionality? What technological interventions with the “natural” body will be available, expected, discouraged, restricted, forbidden? How will societies ensure conformance to their expectations—through law, through which incentives and disincentives? How will individuals who do not conform to embodied expectations (by choice or otherwise) make their way in these future worlds?

The anthology seeks stories that interrogate these questions from feminist, disability rights, queer, postcolonial and other social-political perspectives, especially intersectional ones, for a special issue on the theme of “Outlaw Bodies,” to be guest co-edited by Lori Selke.

Word count is flexible, but we are unlikely to accept any story over 10,000 words. Send your stories as an attachment to: outlawbodies.tff@gmail.com. We prefer .doc, .docx, .rtf or .odt files—query first for any other format.

Deadline: May 1, 2012.
Payment: $35/story.

About the publisher: The Future Fire is an e-published magazine showcasing new writing in Social-Political Speculative Fiction. See our manifesto at http://futurefire.net/about/manifesto.html for more details.

About the editor: Lori Selke has been published in Strange Horizons and Asimov’s. She’s been active in queer, sex radical and feminist activist circles for over two decades. She is also the former editor/publisher of the tiny lit zine Problem Child.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries: outlawbodies.tff@gmail.com

For submissions: outlawbodies.tff@gmail.com

Website: http://futurefire.net

Deadline: 31 March 2012

Birds of Lace Press seeks spooky, gorgeous, tainted and taloned texts for chapbook publication. 12-25 pages (give or take a few) in any genre or hybrid creation thereof, including pen and ink drawings. We love that which hurts so good, tips the scales of our guts, makes the sky spit glass and the ground leak fluids. For examples and general aesthetic of work we’ve published, please visit:http://birdsoflace.wordpress.com/chapbooks/

But don’t be deterred if your work isn’t reflected there- we also love surprises. Please email as an RTF attachment to birdsoflace@gmail.com by March 31st, 2012. No bio. required; do take note that Birds of Lace exclusively publishes those who are women and/or queer-identified.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries: birdsoflace@gmail.com

For submissions: birdsoflace@gmail.com

Website: http://birdsoflace.wordpress.com

Save the Date: The Fillmore Talk Story facilitated by Manilatown board member Tony Robles at the I-Hotel on March 3rd from 2-5pm.

Come learn about the family histories and experiences, struggles and vitality of this once thriving Filipino enclave from our pioneers and their descendants.

Special guest speakers to be announced soon.

We look forward to seeing you. This event is in conjunction with “Filipinos in San Francisco” book project.

Get your ticket at http://talkstory.eventbrite.com/

Location:
I-Hotel Manilatown Center
868 Kearny St.
San Francisco, CA 94108

For more information -
P: 415-399-9580
E: mhf@manilatown.org
W: Manilatown.org
FB: ManilatownHeritageFoundation

02/21/2012 6:00 pm

Alex Gilvarry presents his novel From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant ($26.95), a Signed First Editions Club selection. Boyet Hernandez is a small man with a big American dream when he arrives in New York in 2002, fresh out of design school in Manila. He sets up shop in a Brooklyn factory, but mere weeks later, there’s a knock on the door: the flamboyant Boyet is brought to Gitmo, handed a Koran, and locked away indefinitely.

Location:
1 Ferry Building
San Francisco, California
94111
United States

From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant (Hardcover)
By Alex Gilvarry
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780670023196
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Viking Adult, 1/2012

How can we better understand and imagine men and feminism?

Deadline: March 30, 2012

How can we better understand and imagine new possibilities for men and feminism? Are you a guy who hates sexism? Do you call yourself a feminist? Have you spent hours over coffee (or beer or on blogs) debating issues of gender, power, race, class, and sexuality? Are you involved with social justice activism? Have you grappled with accountability, imperfection, and social change? If so, then you have stories to tell and I’d like to hear what you have to say. For complete information see http://bit.ly/zzwLmE

“I am collecting essays for a revised second edition of “Men Speak out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power.” I’m interested in first-person accounts of growing up male and identifying with — or questioning the ideals of feminism. Stories about pivotal moments in personal or poltiical chagne are especially welcome. You don’t have to call yourself a feminist to have a relevant story. There are so many directions your essay can take, but I am NOT looking for an academic essay. No citations, not footnotes. I AM looking fo thought-provoking stories written in your own language you actually use when you talk with your friends.”

Please send submissions or queries to Shira Tarrant at Shira_Tarrant@yahoo.com. Include Men Speak Out 2e Submission in the subject line. Submission queries should be directed to the above.

nineteen sixty nine is accepting creative works (images, film, sound, and text), scholarly essays, and book reviews for its first volume. Submissions may address the volume’s main theme or address another topic (see below).

The deadline for submissions is March 23, 2012 at 5:00 PM Pacific Standard Time.

See here for our submission guidelines.

Contact Jason U. Kim (jasonukim@berkeley.edu) for inquiries.

1. Main Theme: “The Future(s) of Ethnic Studies” (at least 2/3 of the published volume)

How has the field of Ethnic Studies transformed within the last forty years? What are some current examples of innovative and emerging work within the field? How do you envision the future of Ethnic Studies for the twenty-first century? This inaugural volume of nineteen sixty nine seeks to demonstrate the multiple ways in which scholarly and creative work in Ethnic Studies re-envisions the past, transforms the present, and re-imagines the future.As such, submissions could include topics as varied as: the future of Ethnic Studies and undocumented immigrants in Arizona, analyses of race in science fiction texts, creative works exploring the connections between race and technology, the ways in which globalization/transnationalism has affected race, etc.

2. Open Topic (at most 1/3 of the published volume)

Submissions may also be on any topic that falls under the purview of NSN’s mandate as described on our website.

Cover Art Competition

nineteen sixty nine is seeking original artwork for the cover of its inaugural issue. Submissions should reflect the main theme of the issue: “The Future(s) of Ethnic Studies.” We encourage contributors to make the theme their own and interpret it in inventive ways.

Submissions not chosen to appear on the cover will be considered for publication in the journal as a regular submission. Please keep in mind that this is a competition for cover art and not cover designs. Thus, submissions should not be in the form of a journal cover with title text, etc.

The deadline for this competition is March 1, 2012 at 5:00pm Pacific Standard Time. The results will be announced on April 1, 2012.

Contact Kristen Sun (ksun@berkeley.edu) for inquiries.

Images should be in a high resolution digital format, preferably in PNG, but JPEGs are also acceptable. Images must be 25 MB or less. The journal is formatted to be printed at 8.5” x 11”. Your image could be used to take up the entire cover or a smaller portion of it, depending on the dimensions of the image and the layout editor’s discretion.

In the Abstract section of the online submission form, contributors should include the title of the work, the year it was created, and the medium. An artist’s statement of 40 words or less is optional.

Submissions should also include a short biography of the artist, as indicated by the submission guidelines on our website.