Other Calls:
Added September 2009:
Microcosm Publishing
has zine calls for submissions.
New URL, August 2010: Lambda Literary Foundation, sponsors of the Lambda Literary Awards and publishers of Lambda Book Report have a Calls for Submissions page.
New URL 2012: Are You Outside the Lines blog sometimes posts info on calls for submissions.
When I update these listings, I tend to post tweets about it at twitter.com/larrybobsf
*CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS*
Ignited by the Arab Spring, uprisings in Greece and Spain, and protests in Wisconsin, Occupy Wall Street has brought corporate greed and structural inequality into the spotlight while claiming public space and refusing hierarchical models of resistance. "We are the 99%," the central slogan of the Occupy movement, has been crucial in rallying mass support. And yet, this slogan invokes a vision of sameness that stands in stark contrast to a queer analysis that foregrounds, cultivates, and nurtures difference. From Mortville, the queer camp at Occupy Baltimore, to the Feminists and Queers Against Capitalism bloc at the Oakland general strike, queers are playing central roles in Occupy spaces. But, what would it mean to bring a queer analysis to the forefront, going beyond the politics of inclusion to question the very terms of the debate? For the first time in decades, perhaps there's a possibility for a mass movement demanding radical social change in the US. Still, most Occupy spaces remain straight, white, and male-dominated: how do we prevent the power imbalances intrinsic to previous movements? What about accountability within the 99%? How have Occupy spaces addressed (and failed to address) homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, racism, ableism, imperialism/patriotism, police brutality, anti-homeless territorialism, sexual assault, and other issues of structural, personal, and intimate violence? As struggles emerge to confront the colonial rhetoric of "occupying" indigenous land (and to address this history), what can a queer analysis bring to this challenge? What do queer struggles have to learn from Occupy/Decolonize movements, and what can Occupy/Decolonize movements learn from queer struggles?
I'm interested in missives from queers involved in Occupy/Decolonize movements, as well as from those veering between skeptical and inspired. I would love to hear about queer challenges within Occupy encampments large and small, across the country and around the world. Bring me your explosive analysis, your rants, your manifestoes, your journal entries, your rage and rigor and hope and heartbreak. In addition to written nonfiction work, I'm also interested in art, photography, posters, flyers, and other forms of visual documentation queering the Occupy movement -- its goals and aspirations, its impact, its perils and possibilities.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the editor of five nonfiction anthologies, most recently Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform (AK Press 2012), and the author of two novels, most recently So Many Ways to Sleep Badly (City Lights 2008). More info on Mattilda at mattildabernsteinsycamore.com.
Please send essays or written materials of up to 5000 words, as Word or text file attachments only, to nobodypasses@gmail.com. Include a brief bio. Please send a query before submitting visual work. The deadline is March 20, 2012, although the earlier the better. Any questions, send them my way!
FAULT LINES POETRY JOURNAL is calling for poets of all ages and backgrounds to submit their poems for publication: an exciting opportunity to get published in the newest poetry journal on the West Coast. Published out of Portland, Oregon, Fault Lines,is reaching out to poets from Oregon, Washing, Northern California, and British Columbia. It seeks imaginative, evocative, and powerful poetry for its maiden edition. Poetry can be on any topic in any form. I hope to receive your poems soon. Space is limited and the submission end date is looming, The deadline is Jan. 15,2012.
Fault Lines Poetry encourages submissions from poets of all backgrounds and circumstances: from polished, published poets to shy beginners, from the young to the middle aged to the Boomers. All are encouraged to send us poems so that Fault Lines can give them a VOICE.
As editor, I am looking for poems that nourish and encourage reflection, that enchant so that the readers turn page after page, repeatedly, because these poems inspire.
Submit your poems on the poetry website under the Call for Submission section. WWW.FAULTLINESPOETRY.COM
White lovers who have attempted to diminish our right to have a wide spectrum of emotions by attaching negative and racially charged connotations to things we say: "I'm afraid," "hurting," "lonely" or "unsure," suggests that there is still not enough honest discussion occurring in interracial relationships. In our attempts to understand and support our partners in their quest for wholeness, legitimacy, direction and self-awareness, we often put aside the essence of who we are, thereby allowing ourselves to be compartmentalized into "lesser" roles, such as: caretaker, sounding board, strong and/or silent other.
As lesbians and gay men of color, we believe that turning a wide range of personal experiences into literary disquisitions on racism in intimate interracial relationships, might in some way illuminate our own internal struggles at locating, naming and ultimately reversing the slow erosion of our unique identities/voice. We ask: "Have we, for the sake of love and/or acceptance, allowed ourselves to become racially and culturally neutered in order to make our lovers more comfortable being next to 'our skin?'" Have we allowed our emotions to become pathologized?
Through an interdisciplinary approach--relying in part on anti-categorical complexity to intersectionality as a possible jumping off point for discussion--this project will explore the largely unexamined issues of race/racism/sexuality in interracial queer relationships.
We are interested in engaging work that questions the social, political and racial divides within interracial relationships. Writers should avoid the over-use of jargon as this work seeks to present nuanced ideas in clear, straightforward language that will appeal to a broad audience.
Criteria
Send an 850 word abstract via email attachment to Monalesia Earle at: soho2paris@gmail.com or Russell Campbell at: rhotsoup@aol.com
The deadline for abstracts is December 15, 2011.
For general enquiries: soho2paris@gmail.com
Include a cover page with your contact information and a brief biographical statement of approximately 150 words. Final essays will be approximately 3,500 to 5,000 words, with an estimated deadline (if abstracts and the subsequent proposal is accepted by a publisher) of March 2012. Please put "BIAE" in the subject line.
Web link: Gay Erotica Short Fiction & Poetry Wanted
* Seeking ORIGINAL gay erotic flash fiction, micro fiction, and poetry
* Pay is $6 - $8 for every two flash pieces
* Pay is $3 for each piece of micro fiction
* Pay is $5 for each poem
* 3-month exclusive rights sought
We launch in May. The premise is to offer readers "quickies" on a weekly basis.
What we're looking for... gay/bi-male sexy... in space or in a hot tub-- wherever. Good writing comes first. Sex comes second.
What we're not looking for... teen sex, rape, or heavy S/M.
If interested, email us two of your best pieces of gay erotic flash fiction, micro fiction, or poems EMBEDDED within your email and address it to: contact@queersotv.com. Please include a 1 - 3 sentence bio about yourself.
You will receive an email of acceptance in about two weeks if we want to publish you or see more of your work.
These are just some questions to get your mind going if you are having trouble thinking of something to submit! Also keep in mind, queer perspectives and critiques on current events are crucial to this project's mission statement of documenting queer histories and experiences. What is a queer reading of the "gay suicides?" What is at stake with the rulings on DADT and Prop 8? What about "queer tourism" during this holiday season and the way queer bodies are read at touristy hot spots? Does your queerness change the ways you engage your family for the holidays? How about a queer reading of the current tuition increases and the chalking events that have become an issue regarding free speech? To what effect is queer silencing an issue at UCI? Or is it an issue?
What kinds of alternative sexual (queer) spaces do you know of in Orange County? How have these counterpublics served queer culture and the cultivation of queer identities? What is at stake with the gentrification of many of these locations (if there are any left in the OC)?
How have you experienced queerness as an ally? How does queerness get mapped on to your body, and what kinds of negotiations are involved (internally and externally)? How queer can you be as an ally? What does queer mean to an ally?
You could probably write novels on the topics above but if you still need help, don't be shy to ask! If you need some clarification on QUAC, see the previous issue on the group page or give me a call / message! Again, this is a collective project and as such, it is only as valuable as the energy we all put in to it.
Remember that if you are submitting art, keep in mind that QUAC is printed in black and white.
Best of luck! I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season! I greatly anticipate your submissions :]!
QueerZineUCI (@t) gmail.com
2,000-4,000 words
Editors: Audrey Bilger and Michele Kort. Audrey Bilger is the Faculty Director of the Writing Center and Associate Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College. Michele Kort is Senior Editor at Ms. magazine, a freelance writer, and author of three books (including Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro).
Same-sex marriage is obviously a hot topic these days, and we want to look specifically at the lesbian side of the equation. Given the secondary status of women throughout much of the globe, bonds between women--particularly intimate connections--can redefine the political landscape as well as the domestic realm. Anna and Eve don't get as much press as Adam and Steve, but they're potentially more threatening to the status quo.
We're looking for a variety of material: primarily first-person essays, but also secondhand observations, bridesmaid/mother-of-the-bride/etc. stories, and even analytical pieces (as long as they're written in an accessible style). We're open to graphic essays/cartoons as well, and we're eager to see lesbian wedding ephemera: great photos, invitations, newspaper wedding announcements, vows, guest favors.
Needless to say, we're looking for terrific writing--colorful, moving, funny, surprising, insightful. We can imagine essays that cover a lesbian marriage from soup to nuts, but we think it’s more likely, given the word limitation, that it might be best to focus on a certain aspect of lesbian marriage or of your particular wedding--at least as an organizing principle. Here are some questions to think about; perhaps one or more will inspire a resonant tale:
What made you decide to get married? How significant was legalization in your state/country in your decision? How/who popped the question? What trepidations did you have about marriage? What does marriage mean to you/what doubts do you have about the institution? How is marriage the same/different for a lesbian couple? How did your families handle the news? Was there any particular joy or heartbreak about someone who did or did not support your wedding? What was the planning process for your wedding? Was it a fancy affair, or just a trip to the courthouse? Did you have a best man/woman or bridesmaids/bridesmen? Do you have children, and were they involved in the wedding? Do you have a good story about your wedding outfits? About the ceremony/reception? Who did you invite? If you're an interracial couple, did that bring out issues beyond your lesbian connection? Same question if one or both of you is transgender. Was your wedding traditional--or did you purposefully try to "queer" it? Did you write your vows? Did you put out an announcement in the newspaper? Did you go on a honeymoon? What do you call your spouse? How has lesbian wedded life met/exceeded/confounded your expectations? Does your relationship feel different since you married? Has marriage made you more/less radical about LGBT issues?
Deadline for submissions: January 30, 2011. Please consider running your ideas past us before you plunge into writing. We also encourage early submissions.
For more information, see our blog at http://micheleandaudrey.wordpress.com/. Please email submissions and inquiries to: abilger@cmc.edu.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
The San Francisco Sex Workers Festival was established in 1998 to provide a forum for the accomplishments of sex worker film and video makers and to screen works about sex workers and the sex industries from around the world. The Sex Worker Festival provides an opportunity to recognize and honor prostitutes, dancers, porn performers and other sex workers, who have historically been a dynamic part of arts communities.
To date, the Sex Worker Festivals have screened nearly nearly two hundred works and generated much interest in the media. In addition, the festival presents performances and events. In 2005 Whore College was launched in conjunction with the Sex Worker Festival. Films and videos for the Festival focus on prostitutes' rights; organizing efforts and working conditions for strippers; global sex work and sex work as a labor issue on the international agenda; sex workers as artists; queer sex workers; sex work and gender identities; sex education, sex art, porn and erotica; portraits of strippers, prostitutes, doms, madams... We encourage diverse participation and diverse perspectives.
Guidelines
Qualifying Entries:
Films and videos must be:
1) directed or produced by someone who has worked in the sex industries or
2) about any aspect of sex work.
Please note: We are interested in art, experimental work, music videos, narratives, documentaries and all works that challenge conventional stereotypes and stigma regarding prostitution and other forms of sex work.
Upon filmmakers consent, all such works will be included in our location-based library of films about sex work, available for researchers and activists. If your work does not fit into these categories, please don't submit it.
Entry forms are available online at our website. A separate application must accompany each work.
Deadline:
Entries may be sent on an ongoing basis. Deadline for the 2011 Festival is March 1, 2011, however is late entries may be considered. (Please email is and let us know you sent it.)The festival will take place in the Spring of 2011. The festival also sponsors ongoing screenings at festivals around the world and we accept work on an ongoing basis. Call 415-751-1659.
Entry Fees:
A separate entry fee and application form is needed for each work. The entry fees are:
$10.00 for the first film or video, and $5.00 for each additional film or video.
Checks or money orders should be in U.S. funds. Entry fees will be waived based on financial need upon request. Fees are waived for makers in developing countries with no access to Sterling or US dollar currencies.
Formats:
Screening: NTSC DVD (preferred), 1/2" (VHS), Film-16 or 35mm (by special arrangement), miniDV
Preview: DVD (preferred), also accepting web links to viewing online, NTSC standard videotape, or miniDV
Language:
Foreign language film and video should be made available with the original language soundtrack and English subtitles, however we will consider works in that have not been subtitled.
Judging:
Entries will be reviewed by a panel of sex worker film/video makers.
Mailing Information:
Include address label on both tape and container. All submissions must be shipped prepaid and packed in proper containers to arrive at the Sex Worker Fest offices no later than 2 weeks before the festival or other screening dates (to be announced). DO NOT send films for preview. Do not send submissions in fiber-filled envelopes, as the dust damages tapes and VCRs.
If a film is invited to participate, the film must be shipped prepaid, insured and packed in proper containers. The San Francisco Sex Worker Festival will be responsible for return shipping charges for 16 and 35mm films. The Sex Worker Fest will not pay for international shipping for domestic films (USA). The Sex Worker Fest does not assume any liability for damage to prints due to improper containers or otherwise. 16 mm and 35 mm films (only) in our possession will be insured against damage or loss while participating in the festival.
Upon acceptance, film cassettes and videos sent from outside the United States must be accompanied by a commercial invoice or b&w, value of shipment and sender's name and address. Cassettes should be marked: 'For Festival Screening Only.'
Publicity Materials:
Materials (photos, pict files, etc.) of films and videos selected for screening become the property of the Sex Worker Fest and can be used to promote The Sex Worker Fest and the programs of The Sex Worker Fest in all mediums including film, television, radio and the internet.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
For the erotic anthology DADDIES 2: Gay Erotic Fiction/tentative title
(Cleis Press, Summer 2011), I'm looking for short stories (max. 6,000
words) about twinks hankering for silver foxes or about men with the
meat of years on their bones teaching the sexual ways of the world to
younger men: erotic writing about Dads and their sons that blends
strong narrative and textured characters. Everything goes, from
sexually playful to hardcore S/M, for this collection about relations
between men of different generations and kinks. Deadline: Nov. 1,
2010. Submissions to: Richard Labonte
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
For the erotic anthology HOT JOCKS (Cleis Press, Spring 2011), I'm
looking for short stories with an athletic theme, fiction about
inter-athlete lust, about a skinny nerd's hots for a jock, about
sports and sex. Wrestlers, quarterbacks, surfers, swimmers, divers:
sure. But do think outside the stereotypical jock box: cross-country
runners, MMA fighters, badminton players, speed skaters,
weightlifters, archers, rowers - even cricket players can be sexy.
Deadline Sept. 1. Submissions to Richard Labonte
Queering Sexual Violence An anthology of LGBTQ writers, survivors and activists confronting heterosexual privilege and the gender binary system while creating a dialog about the limitations of the anti-sexual violence movement.
Edited by Jennifer Patterson
Queering Sexual Violence seeks 20- 25 LGBTQ writers who are interested in submitting pieces that confront the current state of our anti- sexual violence climate. Part memoir/ part criticism/ part call to action, this anthology seeks to address the limitations of a society that is not only unequipped to deal with rape culture but also unable to look at it without the lens of heterosexual privilege and through the interests of a gender binary system. The anthology seeks to address the holes in anti- sexual violence prevention, organizing and recovery work while motivating the community to embrace a more radical perspective, in order to foster sustainable change.
For general purposes, the definition of Sexual Violence defined in this anthology is as follows:
Sexual Violence is an unwanted or non- consensual act, whether completed or not, that is sexual in nature and violates a person physically, emotionally, spiritually and/or politically.
To be more clear, Sexual Violence can be a range of non-consensual sexual exchanges, from unwanted interactions on the street, to rape (from either a stranger or within a relationship) to incest to invasive sexually based comments in regards to ones gender presentation or identity, among many other things.
The pieces submitted should be of the writer.s personal experience and explore the intersections of ability, sexuality, race, class, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sex, age, ethnicity and how these either magnify or minimize your experience/ work and your history with sexual violence.
Queering Sexual Violence believes that organizing from the center of our many different and overlapping marginalized communities could do nothing but improve the current anti- sexual violence movement.
Possible Ideas for Pieces:
What does consent mean to you and how do you explore it in your sexual experiences? Has your experience shaped the ways in which you navigate your present relationships?
Did you come out after you experienced sexual violence? What kind of impact did this have on your future relationships or anti-sexual violence work?
How do you think transphobia and homophobia play out in sexual violence and what kind of impact does this have on mainstream organizing?
Do people often attribute your queer identity to the fact that you have experienced sexual violence or abuse before coming out? Or has it never been an issue? How can we begin to have conversations that include primary prevention for people of queer identity that allow them to claim their identity separate from sexual violence?
How does your expression of gender being questioned or threatened lead to feeling sexually violated?
Have you worked in anti- sexual violence organizing? What kind of experience was it for you and did you feel you were able to be both queer and an active participant? Did you feel welcomed and/ or valued in the process?
Have you experienced more .casual., day to day sexual violations that have been threatening because of your sexual orientation or because you don.t fit traditional gender roles?
How does your race complicate your role as a survivor and/or community organizer? Where do you feel most at home?
What do you imagine is necessary for the future of anti- sexual violence work? What needs to change in the language, direction of prevention etc. in order for the work to be more inclusive and queer issues to be more centralized?
Do you find yourself drawn to larger non- profit organizations or grassroots efforts? Will we be able to create widespread change through one of the other more effectively?
When do you feel burnt out? When do you quit? And how do you start again?
Queering Sexual Violence is looking for pieces 1200- 2000 words, in Times New Roman Size 12, and double-spaced. Upon publication, moderate compensation will be supplied for selected pieces. Also, please provide a short bio (150 words or less) with your submission.
Please send submissions and/ or questions to queeringsexualviolence@gmail.com by May 1, 2010. For extension requests, please write.
Please also repost and circulate widely.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
FORMERLY KNOWN AS, a male sex worker arts festival
Army of Lovers seeks submissions for an arts festival that will feature visual art, video, dance, performance, writing and music by men who've worked in some area of the sex industry at some point in their lives. And this year we're opening the festival to clients of male sex workers to share their stories as well. Visual artists are encouraged to submit images for inclusion in a slideshow of visual art to be played during the evening.
This multi-night festival will take place June 1 and 2 2010 in San Francisco and will be part of the National Queer Arts Festival. We had two oversold nights in last year's festival where people were packed in and sweaty. We'll be in a larger venue this year, the beautiful African American Art and Culture Complex at Fulton and Websiter.
Read about last year's festival on the SF Weekly website here: http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-06-10/news/a-beautiful-risk/5
One reason we highlight male sex workers is because we know lots of men who are socially isolated from one another and from the broader world of sex workers. We see amazing female sex workers leading the way in sex worker movements . politically, creatively and socially. We aim to provide men a space to come together so that we can meet one another and integrate our voices into the larger discussion. Both male and female-identified transgender sex workers are welcome to submit work. People outside San Francisco are welcome as audience members and contributing artists.
We seek work that reflects our lives. It doesn't have to be limited to your experiences as a sex worker but we are extremely interested in art that addresses sex work. We want art by people who worked thirty years ago. We want art by people who worked five hours ago. We want art by people who've spent time in jail. We welcome art that's funny and confusing and sexual and political and bold and subtle and traditional and nontraditional. We want art by street workers, porn performers, dancers, escorts, webcasters, dungeon masters and people who've done types of sex work that often go unacknowledged: people who work at sex clubs, people who work on porn sets, people with quirky stories.
We will pay performers because we got some grant money, but don't expect to quit your day (or night) job!
Please contact Kirk Read at mswfestival@gmail.com Please share this email with anyone you know who might be able to help get the word out to male sex workers.
Please send work by email, with weblinks if there is video. If you prefer to send something by mail:
Kirk Read
Army of Lovers
2261 Market St. #125
San Francisco, CA 94114
We welcome CDs, DVDs, printed stories, electronic files, raw ideas for performance art, links to websites...just get in touch and let us know what you have to offer!
Please get us stuff by APRIL 15!! The sooner the better! We will be curating the festival in mid-April, so submissions received after that will also be considered for future programming throughout the year and beyond.
If Riot Grrrl doesn't resonate with you or your cause, that's okay! We also want to know about all the do-it-yourself, grassroots music movements currently being run by women/girls/trans/genderqueer/queer folks today.
For more info, visit http://girlgangunderground.org or email girlgangunderground@gmail.com!
We want your submissions! Talking points include, but are not limited to:
* ESSAYS ON...
o What would a modern-day "Riot Grrrl manifesta" look like?
o The successes and failures of Riot Grrrl and what we've
learned from them
o Your experience as an immigrant grrrl, genderf**king boy,
revolutionary pornographer, Muslimah punk, working class queer, etc
* REPORTS ON...
o What was your experience as a Riot Grrrl in the '90s?
o What's going on in your community that supports feminist &
queer DIY musicians today?
o Scene reports from regional DIY music scenes that
traditionally are lady- and queer-friendly (London, Berlin, NYC, or
your town)
o Individuals who are making a difference--musicians,
activists, writers, whomever!
o "Where are they now?" (Riot Grrrl edition)
* HOW-TO...
o "Get off the Internet and meet in the street"
o Reclaim feminism for the 4th wave
o Organize conferences, protests, benefits, etc
o Combat the "dude-first" mentality of your music scene
o Use new technologies to organize effectively
o Start a band/go on tour/create a zine/etc
o Create spaces for working class, POC, international and
rural women and queers
* BAND/ZINE/COLLECTIVE/ACTIVIST GROUP INFO...
o We're creating a directory for the International Girl Gang
Underground--send along info on your project to be included!
* ART...
o Print, digital, audio, video, whatever--so long as it's in
an easily rendered format for a black & white zine or can be included
on an accompanying CD-R for distribution, we want it!
For more info, visit
http://girlgangunderground.org
or email
girlgangunderground@gmail.com!
In solidarity,
Stacy K. & KW
Co-editors
International Girl Gang Underground Zine
http://girlgangunderground.org
Headcase will be an anthology comprised of 15-20 nonfiction pieces by writers and artists both established and new, exploring the theme of mental health, mental illness, and mental health care in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) community. The book is currently being considered for publication by a major queer press.
The anthology seeks essays, poetry, and comics by queer consumers of mental health services or queer individuals who have been diagnosed, but do not identify as patients, with mental illness. Works should explore the intersection of queerness and mental health and can include topics such as psychotropics; Gender Identity Disorder and its acceptance or rejection as a legitimate mental disorder; conventional v. holistic treatment; experiences in therapy, groups, and/or institutions; how race and ethnicity, class, sex, gender identity, age, and disability impact access to treatment; addiction, self-medicating, and recovery.
Modest compensation provided upon publication to contributors whose pieces are chosen.
Guidelines:
* Pieces should be between 750 and 1500 words (approximately 3 to 5 double-spaced pages).
* While the deadline for a 2010 publication date has not yet been established, submitting your piece by December 1, 2009 is recommended.
* Descriptions of pieces in progress are also welcome.
* Submissions should be sent as a Microsoft Word document, double-spaced, 12 pt. font, Times New Roman font.
* Please provide a brief (100 words or less) bio with your submission
Teresa Theophano is a licensed social worker, out queer mental health consumer, and the author of Queer Quotes (Beacon Press, 2004).
Please send submissions/project descriptions to her at headcase_anthology@yahoo.com
Future Fuck All
"Hello friends, I am putting out a call for writing, art, comics, photographs, on the practicial and philosophical aspects of gender, sexuality, bodies, and queerness. Personal experiences (good, bad, and other), philosophies, rants, funny stories, observations, interviews, dreams of the future. Ultimately, I want to put a zine out that is a positive fuck yeah for queernessi, transgenderisms, bodies, sexualityies, and ultra wave inclusive feminism. A recognition that all oppressions are interconnected, and the time is now to share our stories and deconstruct the dead ends.
Years ago I did four issues of a crudely similar zine call "Girl-Boy" with a co-editor. It was a fun and enlightening exploration, I want to do it again, this time with everybody!
After the submissions have been picked and assembled I will submit the final zine to an awesome independent publisher. I might also put it on a blog thing for he world to share. If you want to specify rights reserved in your works, write that on the work, or let me know in some way. This is not a profit venture, it is to share experience and open minds, our own, and anyone that reads.
If you have suggestions for a title, please send them in! My original brainstorm title idea "Beyond Girl-Boy" seems entirely cheesy. My new working title is" "Future Fuck All."
Deadline is November 1, 2009.
Drop me a note if you have questions." - Robert, robotearl(at)gmail.com, robnoxious.wordpress.com
Nowhere 2 Be Found Magazine is a fanzine that focuses on diverse views & culture from a queer perspective. We're looking for gear heads, geeks, dorks, sci-fi/horror fans, punks, metalheads, those dealing with health, mental health, & substance abuse, doing project...to tell their stories, share their art, poetry, fiction/non-fiction, advice, how to, sites, project, events, etc. Send all submissions to nowheretwobefound(at)gmail.com. You can find more info on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace. http://www.nowhere2befound.webs.com/
2,000-4,000 words
Payment: Upon publication. Amount will vary, depending on experience and other variables ($50 and up). Please include a list of any previous publication credits with your query or submission.
Deadline: December 1, 2009. That said, we strongly encourage you to send us a query well beforehand, so that we can review it, give you helpful feedback, and have a good sense of what will be coming our way that month. If you are able to submit the piece earlier, we prefer that you do.
Editors: Candace Walsh and Laura André. Candace Walsh is the editor of the recently released anthology Ask Me About My Divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On (www.askmeaboutmydivorce.com).
As Dr. Lisa Diamond's recent groundbreaking book Sexual Fluidity makes clear, women's sexual desire and identity are capable of shifting. Cynthia Nixon, Carol Leifer, Wanda Sykes, Portia de Rossi, and countless others have left the fold of heterosexual identity to enter into or pursue same-sex relationships.
Although this book will evolve as we receive submissions, we welcome first-person essays from women
1) who were aware that they had always felt robust same-sex desires, but wanted to try to make it work in the straight world, and also
2) who identified as heterosexual at one time, but found that the situation they were in just naturally led to embarking on an intimate romantic relationship with a woman.
We seek a diversity of voices, and welcome submissions from a variety of perspectives.
We also welcome essays from women who don't fit precisely into the above descriptions.
Here are some questions that we'd like answered in your piece. It may be one of the questions, or you may touch on most of them, and throw in some extra, great stuff that didn't even occur to us. Please don't feel like this is an essay question test and that you have to cover them all--we want the format of your essay to feel organic and not be explicitly dictated by our questions.
How did you come to your moment of truth?
Did your perception of yourself change?
Do you feel that others' perceptions of you changed? Did they surprise you with either an unexpected positive or negative reaction? How did this affect you? Did their reactions change over time?
Do you feel like you surrendered heterosexuality or elements of heterosexual privilege? Do you feel like your new life with a woman has yielded rewards? What were the rewards you expected and which ones were surprises?
What do you miss? What do you not miss? Everything from in the bedroom to out at dinner, at a wedding, as a parent, as a family member, at the gym, in the workplace, on a picnic--whatever comes up for you.
What is this journey like, in general and for you? How did you feel as you were setting out on it and how do you feel now? How do you mark your progress? Were there stages? Illustrative moments? Looking back, do you feel like you went through certain phases?
What is it like to shift your identity? What about you is the same and always will be? What about you has changed or altered?
How did you feel as you began your relationship with a woman? Did you get flak from individuals who second-guessed you? Did you feel like you had to prove yourself? How did you keep your internal balance?
How did your socialization as a straight woman prepare you (ill or well) for pursuing a woman or being in a relationship with a woman?
How did your cultural/religious/racial/ethnic background shape your experience?
Do you like, or are you attracted to certain things that your partner or girlfriend, or gay women do that are traditionally labeled as masculine? Feminine?
How do you define yourself? Do you feel like the current "labels" work for you or that what you are is not yet defined by a word or phrase? What paradigm do you imagine?
Are you still with the woman you left your previous relationship for? Was she just a catalyst, or a rebound, or something else, or "the one"?
As editors, we value specificity, detail, "showing, not telling," honesty, epiphanies, clean, polished, yet real and un-prettied-up writing, and the sharing of insights.
Please send your submission (Word document, double-spaced), along with a short bio and full contact information to: andthenitshifted@gmail.com
Call for submissions:
MUSCLE MEN, edited by Richard Labonte for Cleis Press
Were you the kind of scrawny queer kid who ogled Steve Reeves and
never missed a TV wrestling match, or the buff young man who
fantasized about entering strongman contests and cherished his first
weight bench? I'm looking for original, erotic stories or web-only
reprints of up to 7,500 words for an anthology of fiction and memoir
based on muscle and desire. Consider: built Daddies, burly bears, body
worship, bodybuilding, wrestling from backyard and collegiate to motel
and TV pro, mixed martial arts, weightlifting, arm wrestling, colt
model porn fantasies, muscle voyeurism, big guys attracted to the
twinklike... "muscle" in all its forms, big and beefy or lean and wiry,
as a starting point for *authentic*, well-crafted stories by, for or
about men and muscle - writing with a solid narrative arc in which
characters connect emotionally as much as physically. Deadline is Oct.
1, 2009; publication date is Spring, 2010; payment is $50-$75,
depending on length, plus two copies; submissions in .doc or .rtf
format to cleismuscles@gmail.com .
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3rd Annual Hero Fest Submission Form
Be Yr Own Hero Fest is an annual radical Do It Yourself (DIY) festival in Wilmington, NC. It includes workshops, info sessions, awesome live music, amazing art, free stuff, free food, lots of fun and friends from far away and close by!
Be Yr Own Hero is now accepting music, art, film, performance, fashion, zine/DIY/craft, and workshop/info session submissions. The deadline for submissions is July 19th, 2009.
The dates for Hero Fest 2009 are September 5-6 (Labor Day weekend).
Please fill out this form and provide as much information as possible. Send all mp3s, images, videos, PDFs or documents to herofest@gmail.com.
CALL FOR SUBMISSION
3 Kings are three Brown-skinned/Black – male identified trans persons who seek to give voice and page to the array of persons of color* who may have been born female and now live all or a significant portion of their lives as TransMen, FtM, Boi, Daddy, Tranny, Tranny Fag, Butch, G3 (gee cued –gender gifted guy,) 'masculine/masculinized' women (butches, studs, aggressives, ballers, playas….,) Drag Kings, male illusionists, Transgenders, Transsexuals, gender-queers, stealth, boys like us and the likes**.
When considering works written over the past 25 years, there are a plethora of books addressing the `social construction of masculinity.' About 90 books deal specifically with TransGendered identities. To my knowledge only four of the 90, specifically offer more than an obligatory glimpse of what is repeatedly understood as the `illusive FtM of color.' Where are the voices, opinions, insight of all the black, brown, red and yellow 'masculine/masculinized' women, FTMs and others?
We are the ones we are looking for and what our next generation needs. We are requesting your unpublished stories, photographs, poems, essays, drawings. At this time and for this volume, we are specifically seeking submissions from the African Diaspora who identify as and/or live all or a significant portion of their lives as FtM, Transmen, TransGender, Fag, Boi, Tranny, Tranny Fag G3 (gee cubed –gender gifted guy,) Transsexuals, Stealth, boys like us, Trans-identified Butches and the likes.
21st Century Kings: An Introduction to A New Brown-skinned Masculinity
All submissions, commentary and visual works will be fully considered. Each submission will receive a receipt of delivery via email. We are also seeking/accepting photos, sketches, drawings, digital imagery, cartoons and did we say poetry?!
Word Count/Page Limits:
- Personal Narratives: Up to 15 pages/5000 words Double Spaced
- Fiction: Up to 15 pages/3750 words -- Double Spaced
- Critical Essays and Cultural Critiques: Up to 15 pages (including bibliography) 3750 words -- Double Spaced
- Poetry/Rhymes: No more than 3 pages per poem/rhyme and 3 poems per poet/mc -- Double Spaced
- Graphic Stories: No more than three pages per submission (number of panels up to you). Up to three pieces/stories per artist.
- Photographs/Paintings/Collage/Drawings: 3-5, scanned as B/W only. (No Originals, we are not returning ANYTHING).
New writers welcome!
DEADLINE: open until Midnight, September 1st 2009.
Please copy and paste your text into your email. Please send images in jpeg format or paste into document. Mail to: 3kingsanthology@gmail.com
Here is our CURRENT FOCUS of WORKS being requested:
1. As Men: African American TransMen on their life, experience, and journey to 'man'.
Tell us your story. We want anything you want to share about your transition
2. Third Sex/Recognize Me For Me: Passing African American butches and non-transitioned/No Ho transgender folks on their life, experience and journey to be a true expression of themselves.
Here we imagine receiving work from African American Male/Masculine identified folks who are not currently on hormones.
3. In Spirit We Trust (?): TransMen and Spirituality
Here are some ideas that may help spur your writing:
Self/personal journey: Who supports you? Are you coupled? How do you see yourself? What kind of challenges / issues do you have to deal with being you? Do you see yourself as gay, straight, bi or…? Are you okay with being referred to as a Tranny? Trans? Transexual? Are you stealth? Who are your friends? Are you a parent? Co-parent? Adoptive parent? Foster parent? Guardian? A Primary Provider for someone younger than 18?
On the job: Did you transition at work? What was that experience like? Did you keep your job? Do you feel safe?
Your Spiritual Life: Is spirituality important to you? Has your relationship to spirituality, religion or your spiritual or religious community change after you began taking T?
Have you transitioned? How so, in what ways? Are there differences in life as a woman of color to life as you live it now?
What about relationships with your family, children, "males" in your life, friends, intimate ones, girlfriends, tricks, neighbors and random human contact?
Health / wellness: Do you have safe places to go?
Contact: 3kingsanthology@gmail.com
We are currently in negotiation with a publisher and will have one listed shortly.
Copy Rights: We will retain copy rights until publication. You have full rights after publication.
*We are aware this term may be offensive to some...if it offends you we apologize.
**There are as many terms as there are communities. Please contact us if you feel you fit in this group even if you don't identify with the terms.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 2009 ROBIN BECKER CHAPBOOK PRIZE, SPONSORED BY SEVEN KITCHENS PRESS Deadline: May 15 Prize: $100 plus 25 copies
Submit an original, unpublished poetry manuscript in English by a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered or Queer writer. The manuscript itself need not address L/G/B/T/Q themes, though such work is welcome.
Two manuscripts will be selected as CO-WINNERS of the 2009 Robin Becker Prize: one by a writer with no previous book or chapbook, and the other by a writer with previous book or chapbook publication.
The complete guidelines are posted on the Seven Kitchens site.
The final judge for this year's series is Ruth L. Schwartz. Submit a paginated manuscript of 16-24 pages (not including front matter). Include two cover pages: one with the manuscript title, author name, address, e-mail and phone number; the second cover page should have the manuscript title only. Include a table of contents page.
Include, if applicable, an acknowledgments page for work previously published. Please include, on a separate page, a brief (100-150 words) biographical note, including a statement of any previous or pending book or chapbook publication. The author's name must not appear in the manuscript.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please notify us promptly if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
The winning manuscripts will be announced on or before August 15, 2009.
Please include a $12 reading fee with each manuscript you submit (multiple submissions are welcome). IMPORTANT: Checks should be made payable to Ron Mohring. Online payment may be made via PayPal to sevenkitchens at yahoo dot com.
Each co-winner will receive $100 and 25 copies of her or his chapbook.
Send your manuscript:by e-mail, as a Microsoft Word attachment, to: sevenkitchens at yahoo dot com. Include the words .Robin Becker Chapbook. in the subject line of your e-mail. Or mail to Ron Mohring, Publisher; PO Box 668; Lewisburg PA 17837.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
FORMERLY KNOWN AS, a male sex worker arts festival
Army of Lovers seeks submissions for an arts festival that will feature visual art, video, dance, performance, writing and music by men who've worked in some area of the sex industry at some point in their lives.
This multi-night festival will take place in early June 2009 in San Francisco and will be part of the Queer Arts Festival. We are collaborating with Carol Leigh, the Sex Worker Film Festival and the Center for Sex and Culture to create programming that highlights work by and about male sex workers. There will be an evening of music. There will be several nights of multimedia cabaret where writers, performers and filmmakers come together to showcase their work. There will be a visual art show. And there will be film/video nights.
The reason we want to highlight male sex workers is because we know lots of men who are socially isolated from one another and from the broader world of sex workers. We see amazing female and trans sex workers leading the way in sex worker movements — politically, creatively and socially. We hope to provide men a space to come together so that we can meet one another and integrate our voices into the larger discussion. Trans sex workers are absolutely welcome and adored. People outside San Francisco are welcome as audience members and as contributing artists.
We seek work that reflects our lives. It doesn't have to be limited to your experiences as a sex worker but we are extremely interested in art that addresses sex work. We want art by people who worked thirty years ago. We want art by people who worked five years ago. We want art by people who've spent time in jail. We welcome art that's funny and confusing and sexual and political and bold and subtle and traditional and nontraditional. We want art by people are are currently working. We want art by street workers, porn stars, dancers, escorts, webcasters, dungeon masters and people who've done types of sex work that often go unacknowledged: people who work at sex clubs, people who work on porn sets, people with quirky stories.
We will pay people for their participation because we got some grant money, but don't expect to quit your day (or night) job!
Please contact Kirk Read at mswfestival@gmail.com Please share this email with anyone you know who might be able to help get the word out to male sex workers.
Please send work to:
Kirk Read
Army of Lovers
2261 Market St. #125
San Francisco, CA 94114
We welcome CDs, DVDs, printed stories, electronic files, raw ideas for performance art, links to websites...just get in touch and let us know what you have to offer!
Please get us stuff by MARCH 15!! Deadline is not strict, but we will be curating the festival in mid-March, so submissions received after that will also be considered for future programming.
CALL FOR ARTWORK
by transgender and gender variant artists
FRESH MEAT IN THE GALLERY VI: DEFYING GRAVITIES
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 15, 2009
**Please forward widely until April 15, 2009**
(this call for artwork is also available at www.freshmeatproductions.org
Fresh Meat Productions is now accepting all sizes of artwork for the Sixth Annual Fresh Meat in the Gallery Exhibition in San Francisco. This year’s theme is Defying Gravities.
* Do you make visual art?
* Are you trans, transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, gender-variant, gender-fabulous?
* Do you want to have thousands of visitors from around the world see your art during San Francisco’s Pride month?
Then send us art on the theme of Defying Gravities that is:
Artwork of any size that can hang on the wall
(We are unable to exhibit free-standing sculpture, video, or other 3D work. Only wall mountable works will be considered.)
We welcome work from international, incarcerated, professional, emerging and new artists! Your work does not necessarily have to deal with gender. See below for mailing address and submission guidelines.
About the theme: DEFYING GRAVITIES
In these unstable times how do you and your community rise up and thrive?
What do you create that grounds or defies?
How do you ground yourself in the midst of instability?
What connections do you rely on or seek out?
How do you find relief through humor or outrageousness?
What do you dream of for yourself or your community?
Queer history is full of acts of defiance. How do you find inspiration today in these histories?
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
1) Send us up to three images, as medium-resolution JPEGs, saved onto a CD. Images should be no larger than 5x7 inches and between no larger than 150 dpi. Please do not send large files!
2) Send us a completed Artist Information Form
[download form from http://www.freshmeatproductions.org/callartwork.html ]
3) To send your submission via MAIL: burn your JPG images and Artist Information Form to a CD and mail them to:
Fresh Meat Productions
3128 16th Street, PMB #240
San Francisco, CA
94103
4) Or send us your submission via EMAIL: simply email your JPGs and completed Artist Information Form to exhibitions.freshmeat@gmail.com
5) DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS is APRIL 15, 2009 (received by date, NOT postmarked date).
NOTES:
* Late submissions will not be considered. Early submissions are much appreciated! Artists will hear back from us by April 30th.
* Please do NOT send original artwork.
* Digital files can be submitted either on a CD/DVD or via email. Please contact us if you have any questions about this process.
* If you do not have access to downloading the Artist Information Form, please email exhibitions.freshmeat@gmail.com to have a copy mailed to you.
EXHIBITION DATES:
Fresh Meat Productions presents:
Fresh Meat in the Gallery VI: Defying Gravities
LGBT Community Center
June 6 - July 15th, 2009
1800 Market Street @ Octavia, San Francisco
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday 12noon-10pm, Saturday 9am-10pm, Sunday Closed
Admission: FREE
Opening reception: June 6, 2009
Info: www.freshmeatproductions.org
QUESTIONS:
Contact: exhibitions.freshmeat@gmail.com
Fresh Meat in the Gallery is an annual exhibition of visual art by transgender and gender-variant artists presented by Fresh Meat Productions. We seek to empower artists, expand the repertoire of original work authentically exploring transgender experience, bring visibility to trans communities, connect trans artists with diverse audiences, create dialogue and build community. Fresh Meat in the Gallery is part of the National Queer Arts Festival and accompanies Fresh Meat 2009, our 8th annual festival of transgender and queer performance, (June 18-21 at Project Artaud Theater in San Francisco). Last year, over 2,000 people attended Fresh Meat in the Gallery. More info: www.freshmeatproductions.org.
We look forward to seeing your work!
Got your mojo working? QM is actively seeking daring new works of LGBT full-length fiction!
We are looking for edgy erotic writing, poetry, literary anthologies and boundary-pushing fiction.
Rebellious, revolutionary, experimental and unsolicited manuscripts welcomed!
When submitting a proposal, initial query letter, or completed manuscript, please remember that it may take up to three months for your material to be reviewed. You may submit your proposal by mailing it to the address below. Only send copies of your material and keep the original.
You may email submissions to info AT queermojo.net. You may also send hard materials (sample chapters, synopsis, etc) to the address below. Include a self-addressed stamped envelope with your submission. Submissions will be recycled if ample postage is not included. Canadian and any other foreign submissions must include U.S. postage—we can't use international postage coupons.
Mail Submissions To:
Acquisitions Editor
Rebel Satori Press
P.O. Box 363
Hulls Cove, ME 04644
Full submission guidelines available at http://www.queermojo.net
Desperately Seeking: Punks, urban outcasts and the just plain morally unfit for a Queer Male Erotic Anthology
Editor: Sven Davisson Publisher: Queer Mojo (an imprint of Rebel Satori Press) Submission Deadline: June 1, 2009
Queer Mojo is looking for quality erotic, short fiction for an upcoming anthology. Stories should be creative, revolutionary, queer and... well, pieces gotta be good reads and they gotta be hot. They may be as explicit as you like, but should have some redeeming literary value (whatever you take that to mean).
QM seeks characters out of the mainstream: punks, out-casts, skaters, urban anarchists and secretly rebellious farmboys. Whether you draw inspiration from Bill Burroughs or are a latter-day Lovecraft in creepy crawly tentacular stimulation, all genres are welcome.
Previously published material considered on a case-by-case basis depending on original exposure. Please indicate place and date of previous publication in email.
Stories should be no longer than 7,000 words. Email submissions as a Word doc attachment to info at queermojo.net http://www.queermojo.net
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Body as a Site of Discrimination: A Multidisciplinary, Multimedia Online Journal
The Body as a Site of Discrimination will be an interactive, educational, multi-disciplinary, high quality, critical, and cutting edge online journal. This creative project will fulfill the degree requirements for two Master's of Social Work students at SFSU.
This is a call for submissions to explore the following themes, but other interpretations are also encouraged.
Cultural and academic communities are invited to contribute for a well-rounded exploration of the theme. The significance of this project is to examine the intersectionality between varying forms of body-based oppressions. Crossing disciplines is necessary to understand this matrix of discrimination and will lead to inventive strategies of change and resistance. The outcome of this journal will contribute to the body of knowledge and serve as a resource for subsequent generations of social workers and other helping professionals.
Entries can explore activism and resistance around these issues, focus on social justice, and implications for social work practice and policy. Representative voices from the identified communities are encouraged to submit. Submissions can include personal narratives, research articles, performance and visual art, fiction, poetry, music, etc. Electronic copies of submissions will be considered for publication.
All submissions must be received by January 15, 2009 to
bodydiscrimination@gmail.com
Please pass on this call to any interested parties and contact us if you have any questions.
Thank You
Editors-in-Chief
The Body as a Site of Discrimination
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for New Online Journal & Forum: Brother Outsider Please visit www.brotheroutsider.org Brother Outsider is a new online journal that promotes identity awareness, support and conversation through nonfiction and fiction writing. Visitors and subscribers of the site can expect content that focuses on FTM, Transmasculine and masculine Genderqueer experiences in America and abroad. Brother Outsider will be a monthly online journal that will host written work in the genres of fiction, nonfiction and erotic fiction. (Please visit www.brotheroutsider.org for further information). You don't have to be an award winning author, essayist or journalist or even a "writer" to express yourself through writing. On www.brotheroutsider.org we simply want the expression of oneself through the most powerful weapon on earth, words, and anyone can do it. Please join us in the revolution of Trans representation and visibility. Submit today! Compensation will be provided for some contributors each month. Site launch date is August 2008! Please visit http://www.brotheroutsider.org for all submission information!
Posted 5/27/2008: Working Title: /Spilling Over:/ /A Fat, Queer Anthology/ Editor: Jessica Giusti, Feminist Studies Ph.D. Student, University of Minnesota Contact: spillingover@gmail.com .. Submission Deadline: December 1, 2008 Despite the attention given by queer studies to the materiality of bodies and the cultural and social inscriptions that designate them, still a dearth of both scholarship and literature exists around intersections of gender, sexuality, and fatness As fat studies begins to emerge as a viable academic location of inquiry, questions surface as to how fat bodies, deemed "excessive" in their trespasses of size and space, create even more complex subject positions when compounded by queer desires. This proposed anthology seeks contributions addressing junctions of "fat" /and/ "queer" in pieces that consider the representations and resistances of non-normative corporeality and also writings considering the theoretical conceptions of these intricate subjectivities. /Spilling Over /will reflect the notions of excess, boundaries, and containment implied by the labels "fat" and "queer" both singularly and collectively. In the form of scholarly writing and creative non-fiction pieces, essay submissions might consider (but are not limited to): * theorizing the concept of "excess" as it pertains to fatness and queerness * fat and queer identities; personal narratives; reclaiming "fat" and "queer" * notions of (in)visibility, hypervisibility, and passing and/or privilege * intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity,(dis)ability, age, and religion * the economics of the obesity "epidemic" and the diet industry * fat, queer art and performance; performativity * pleasure, sex-positivity, eroticizing non-normative bodies * acceptance movements, political activism, resistance * the engagement of feminism with fatness * global, transnational, transcultural constructions of fat, queer bodies and lives * critical reflections of fatness and queerness in media, literature, film, music, and visual arts * the rhetoric of fat oppression, fatphobia, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, responding to and/or addressing hate speech By December 1, 2008, please send your 2,000 - 6,000 word submission, along with your complete contact information and a 50-100 word biography, to spillingover@gmail.com .. with the subject line of "Spilling Over Submission" Submissions must be received in 12 point Times New Roman font and sent in via Word documents (PDFs will not be accepted). Pieces will be reviewed and decisions made by April 2009. Please note that accepted submissions will be approved on a tentative basis, pending editorial board approval once the anthology has secured a publisher. Questions can be directed to me at spillingover@gmail.com .. or visit the MySpace page at www.myspace.com/spillingoveranthology ... Please distribute widely.
Posted 5/27/2008: LAST CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - PLEASE POST WIDELY --- THANKS! GENDERED HEARTS Sex, dating, and relationships in the transgender /gender variant community Edited by *Morty Diamond ---- Looking for first person stories, interviews and poetry from trans and gender variant writers about the experience of dating, sex, relationships, and finding love. ---- Topic examples: hilarious or heartbreaking dating stories, how we negotiate sex, transitioning within a relationship, being trans and starting families, passing/not passing and how this affects our choices for dating, marriage - legal or otherwise, online dating, sex and dating before and after surgery and/or hormones. ---- I strive to make this anthology as diverse as possible within age, race, sexuality, and gender identity. I encourage all writers who identify as transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, third gender, non-gender, or gender variant in some way to submit work. ---- If submitting a short story your work should be between 1,500 and 3,000 words. Sexually explicit work is ok but I am not looking for erotica. Please include a short biography with your work. If your story is accepted you will receive a cash stipend and two free copies of the book. Please submit your writing via email to: genderedhearts@gmail.com LAST DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: July 15th, 2008 ---- *Morty Diamond is the editor of the book "From the Inside Out, FTM and Beyond" and the producer and director of the films "Trans Entities" and "Trannyfags". Visit his website at http://mortydiamond.com/
Posted 5/26/2008: Proposal for the LA Queer Studies Conference Panel: October 2009 "Embodied Queer Theory: Living a Queer Life" Moderator: Robert Summers, PhD/ABD This proposed panel sets out to explore subjects who perform their lived body, as a modality of queer theory, on the level of the everyday. As opposed to certain strands within queer theory that remain abstract, and thus disembodied, a close examination of lived subjects, past or present--for example, the dandy, Claude Cahun, Baroness Elsa, Arthur Craven, McDermott and McGough, Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz, Kathy Acker, William Burroughs, Vaginal Davis, or others--will be explored, and an articulation of how one has, or does, enact "queerness" will be foregrounded. Some questions to be asked: By whom, and how, is (proto-)queer theory being done, enacted through the body? What "queer" practices existed in the past that are now being enacted in the present? What does it mean to live, enact a queer life on a daily basis--and is this even possible? Further, it is hoped that as opposed to being prescriptive and articulating "how to be queer," the panelists, via the presentation of specific subjectivities, will gesture toward "living queerly" as an on-going and creative process, which, it is hoped, will open up queer theory as a daily practice of enacting queerness in and through the body, and, finally, what the political, ethical, and/or aesthetic consequences are to "living queerly" in a normative society. Indeed, both historical and contemporary subjectivities will be explored. Submissions from the fields of anthropology, art, art history, comparative literature, English, history, theater and performance, and other fields are welcomed. Proposals that further open up--and even complicate--the questions asked above are more than welcomed. Please submit a 250-word proposal to Robert Summers at robtsum [@t] gmail.com by June 20, 2008. If you have any questions and/or concerns, then please send email.
Call for Submissions: *Still Blue: More Writing By (For or About)Working-Class Queers*
Please post/repost. (Please also forgive duplicates.)
Following the success of *Everything I Have is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men about More-or-Less Gay Life* ( http://everythingihaveisblue.com/ ), a new anthology on queer, working-class themes is currently in preparation.
Writers are encouraged to send their work for possible inclusion in the new volume, tentatively entitled *Still Blue: More Writing By (For or About) Working-Class Queers*.
Writers of any and all genders are welcome!
Like *Everything I Have Is Blue,* *Still Blue* is mea! nt to showcase our imaginative writing: short fiction, life writing, memoir, poems, work that doesn't fit the categories. If it illuminates our realities, our struggles, our resistance to assimilation and mental gentrification, and if it's well written, I'll consider it respectfully. (Submissions of previously published work, as long as you hold the copyright, are also welcome.)
Please *do not* submit erotica, as I cannot use it.
Send submissions as an email attachment formatted in Word to me at: editor (at) everythingihaveisblue dot com
Be sure to include a biography. [If your server doesn't like that address, try me at wendell.ricketts at gmail dot com.]
Submissions must be received by July 1, 2008.
Work not selected for the print anthology may also be considered for the online"Still Blue Project": http://www.everythingihaveisblue.com/still.html . "Still Blue" currently contains new work by Keith Banner, Donal Mosher, Allen Conkle, and Anton Veenstra.
ALSO: "Dear Nomy" Questions 100-200 words, deadline ASAP dearnomy@makeshiftmag.com
Greetings friends, activists, writers, loved ones, and extended community.
I am excited to announce that I have just taken on editing the .Everyday Actions. section of Make/Shift, a new feminist magazine committed to queer, anti-racist and international perspectives (see www.makeshiftmag.com for more info).
I am looking for submissions of 100-500 words, simple anecdotes from your life that show the way you live and breathe your vision, your commitments, your struggle to occupy a space of dignity in the world.
The theme for this issue's "Everyday Actions" section is: CONVERSATIONS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE. Have you had conversations with children or youth in your life that challenged you to articulate your beliefs in clear, non-hierarchical language? How do you approach topics like war, prisons, gender, class, and other things you feel strongly about? How do you support a young person.s process of understanding the world and their place in it? How do you share your sense of what is whole or real with an infant who is not yet speaking, or is just learning to talk? How do you stay humble in conversations with adolescents and teenagers?
I would love to hear from: parents, teachers, childcare providers, aunts & uncles, and especially young people who are defining these conversations.
All of this, none of this, and more is what I envision receiving from you and yours. I am more interested in actual examples than in theoretical ideas. Please send to: everydayactions@makeshiftmag.com. Deadline March 15. I.m excited to read what you have to say. If accepted, please know that your piece may be edited for clarity or space, and I will be in contact with you about that process.
ALSO: I'm nearing the deadline for my .Dear Nomy. column, also in Make/Shift magazine. It.s an advice column, so I need some askers. Questions can include ethical/spiritual/political dilemmas in relation to family, love, work, activism, community, sex, or whatever else you want some perspective on. Send them to dearnomy@makeshiftmag.com ASAP.
Updated 2/7/2008: Call for Submissions: Ignavia Press Online Journal Ignavia is an online journal that promotes fiction that is transgressive in content and form with a bias for material that is dark, edgy and queer. Guidelines Ignavia seeks transgressive fiction - next issue is scheduled for August 2008. We need work that challenges us intellectually, morally and aesthetically. We need work that is dark and edgy. We need work that can arouse us while making us choke on our own bile. General Rules 1) Keep submissions under 4000 words. 2) Send submissions in the body of an email. Also include name, mailing address, telephone number and a 50 word or less biography. 3) Although we prefer work with a queer focus, quality supersedes this bias. 4) We request Electronic Serial Rights so that we may maintain your work in our archives. We cannot offer compensation. 5) No poetry, unless it is prose poetry, which is more prose than poetry. 6) Familiarize yourself with the work of authors on our reading list, which can be found at http://www.ignaviapress.com 7) E-mail submissions to ignaviapress(at)gmail.com. Remember to replace (at) with @.
QUEER UTOPIAS: A Science Fiction Anthology edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel for publication by Arsenal Pulp Press, Spring 2009
We are looking for visions of queer utopias--whether these are self-contained, single-sex communities on our own Earth today; distant future worlds where gender and/or orientation are fluid; societies in which queer women and/or men co-exist apart from the hetero norm; or alien cultures where sexualities of all flavours are celebrated.
Extrapolate from life today to imagine compelling "homotopias," where queers are the new normal. Extrapolate from contemporary society to imagine alternate cultures, where all-female/all-male/trisexual/unisexual/even asexual communities exist. Extrapolate from 21st century science to imagine future environments where sexuality is safely, rewardingly celebrated. That is to say: consider dominant cultural discourses that have, for the better part of a century and a half, marked homosexuality as different; subvert the dominant heterotopia to craft your queer utopia.
Think about how your queer utopia was created: what cultural, social, or political forces caused it to come to be? Why was there a need for a distinct homosocial space? But don't just build your utopian vision; people it and tell us the stories of the women/men/other who live there in well-crafted fiction. Imagine the impact on your utopia when an outsider arrives; tell the story of a utopian who for some reason must leave; or write a story in which your characters and their world are self-contained. What conflicts arise because of the creation of this utopia--whether within the community or in reaction to it from without?
A utopia is not always idyllic. We want short stories that celebrate possible queer lives and worlds. But not every world is without flaw, or hostile outside pressures. You might also consider the antithesis of your utopia--oppressive social control, an authoritarian or totalitarian government or culture that is in opposition to your world: a dystopia which threatens the ideal.
There is a long tradition of feminist utopian critiques that posit an all-female society, but outside of gay pornography there are relatively few all-male utopian visions, something this anthology hopes to consider/rectify to whatever degree. That said, and despite having two male co-editors, we are very much hoping to create a book of short stories that consider queer utopias through a broad lens. This applies, as well, to your approach in tackling the concept of a queer utopia: we're 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're imagining a desirable (or perhaps undesirable, to some or all) future.
As an anthology for a Canadian publisher, preference will be given to submissions from Canadian writers. But the anthology is open to submissions from all writers, and is actively interested in non-North American writers.
Story length: we are open in terms of length, up to a maximum of 10,000 words. Keep in mind, however, that longer stories will have to knock our socks off to justify our not including two stories of shorter length.
Submission instructions:
1) Title the file with author's last name and story title in the file name: Surname-Title.doc
(Do not simply title your piece QueerUtopias.doc, at least not the version you submit to us.)
2) Include your name, your mailing address, your email address, and a bio WITHIN the .doc file with your piece, as submissions will be separated from emails to be read.
3) Submit your work by email, as an attachment in .doc format, to queerutopias@gmail.com
Deadline: May 15, 2008.
Payment: an honorarium and one copy of the book will be paid. (Please note that payment is in Canadian funds.)
About the editors Richard Labont has been the editor of the BEST GAY EROTICA series since 1997, and of the anthologies COUNTRY BOYS, BOYS IN HEAT, BEST GAY ROMANCE 2008, BEST GAY BONDAGE, WHERE THE BOYS ARE, and HOT GAY EROTICA. He writes the syndicated review column "Book Marks" for Q Syndicate ( www.qsyndicate.com) and also the Gay Men's Edition of Books to Watch Out For (www.btwof.com). For many years the general manager of A Different Light Bookstores in California, he returned to Canada in 2001, and lives with his husband Asa on Bowen Island, BC, with forays back to a farm in rural eastern Ontario.
Lawrence Schimel is an award-winning author and anthologist who has published over 80 books in many different genres, including PoMoSEXUALS: CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT GENDER AND SEXUALITY, TWO BOYS IN LOVE, BEST DATE EVER: TRUE STORIES THAT CELEBRATE GAY RELATIONS, THE DRAG QUEEN OF ELFLAND, THINGS INVISIBLE TO SEE: LESBIAN AND GAY TALES OF MAGIC REALISM, THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF NEW GAY EROTICA, SWITCH HITTERS: LESBIANS WRITE GAY MALE EROTICA AND GAY MEN WRITE LESBIAN EROTICA, and BEST GAY POETRY 2008, among others. He lives in Madrid, Spain with his husband, Ismael Attrache.
Together, Labont and Schimel are the editors of THE FUTURE IS QUEER, FIRST PERSON QUEER, and SECOND PERSON QUEER, also published by Arsenal Pulp Press.
About the publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press ( www.arsenalpulp.com) is an independent Canadian publisher located in Vancouver, BC, which has published titles such as QUEER VIEW MIRROR, QUICKIES, HOT AND BOTHERED, OUT/LINES: UNDERGROUND GAY GRAPHICS FROM BEFORE STONEWALL, SEMINAL: THE ANTHOLOGY OF CANADA'S GAY MALE POETS, and the Little Sisters Classics series, among many other queer-interest titles.
Posted 12/2/2007: It's true--femeninete's on the verge of publishing a brand new erotic issue. Now, all we need is you! We want to know what's hot in your world. Reveal your steamy daydreams. Share your ideas about sexuality. Concoct a vision of your most tantalizing fantasy. You can make up a pen name if you wish. It's all up to you. Don't be shy. Send us your poetry, photographs, writings, drawings, and meanderings of any kind. We're not even sure where the boundaries are so feel free to push them. Bring your idea of what's erotic into other people's worlds. Send contributions to femeninete@yahoo.com along with a short bio (100 words or less) and a picture. Anonymity can still be preserved with a bit of creativity--or, let us all know who you are! Extended Deadline is December 15th, 2007 Thanks for making femeninete possible! Much love from the grrrls.
Posted 11/15/2007: Call for submissions: SECOND PERSON QUEER: How We Lived Our Lives . and How You Can Live Yours edited by Richard Labont and Lawrence Schimel For an anthology of life advice from the GLBT community to the GLBT community, we're looking for short, informed essays . preferably between 1,000-2,000 words . written in the second person (addressed to a "you"). Every GLBT person must make their own personal journeys to come out, but many queer communities are and have been especially proactive in welcoming and mentoring "new" members. This teaching happens on many levels, from the institutional ( e.g., safer sex education) to the individual (e.g., a feminist consciousness raising or instruction in the codes of the leather lifestyle). But each successive GLBT generation can hopefully learn from the experiences of those who came before--and teach them many things as well. Whether aimed at the overarching queer community in general or at a subset of the community . or even at an individual in your life . your essay must deliver advice that is deeply personal, intelligently (but not overtly) didactic, and constructive in tone. We're not looking for a bitchfest, although dark humour, smart irony, and witty prose are welcome, as long as there's also some sound advice for our readers. We want to be affected by intensely personal experiences from writers of diverse genders, ages, races, and orientations, informing us about unusual lessons learned from their lives that can be passed along to others. Teach us. Contributors are invited to approach the book in two ways: 1) "How-to" essays, which should be instructive in nature and have a title that begins "How To." No topic is out of bounds - "How to Be Friends With Your Lover's Mother", "How to Manage a Homophobic Boss", "How to Pick Up Your Therapist", "How to Create a Gay-Straight Alliance At Your School", "How to Invite Your Ex-Lovers to Your Wedding", "How to Seduce a Straight Friend", "How to Dress for Success", "How to Break Up Without Tears", "How to Choose the Right Cockring", "How to Cruise Online", etc. - as long as it imparts a useful queer lesson to others. The essays can be profound or practical or humorous or heart-rending -- or a blend of styles -- but must be written in the second person (addressed to a "you"). Draw from your own experience and teach us something; essays which not only teach us how to do something but why are especially welcome. 2) Open Letters. Write a letter to someone specific--whether a public persona (celebrity, politician, author, etc.) or someone drawn from your personal life (a teacher, a relative, a neighbour, whoever)--in which you either offer advice or thank them for things you learned from them (their example). Think James Baldwin's THE FIRE NEXT TIME or the "Art of Mentoring" series. Discrete queer communities have a history of mentoring within themselves: activists teach activists, genderqueers inspire genderqueers, the leather community passes along its traditions, gay elders keep a love of show tunes and Judy alive.draw on that sense of your part in the tradition of a communal memory for your contribution. Keep in mind the focus of the anthology, however--life advice FROM the queer community FOR the queer community. For example, while there are open letters we could--and should--write to many non-queer persons regarding their treatment of the community, this anthology is not the place for those sentiments. Do write them and send them to said persons, to your local politicians, to the op-ed pages of queer or mainstream newspapers, etc. But for this project, please only send us open letters offering advice to members of the queer community. The one exception we are willing to consider will be open letters to a child (relative, child of queer parents, etc.) whose sexuality is not yet defined, and to whom one is offering advice on how to deal with the pressures of heteronormative society while growing up. Note, however, that we will include only one or two such pieces in the book, so your chances of publication increase tremendously if you choose a more original subject. Submission instructions: 1) Title the file with author's last name and story title in the file name: Surname-Title.doc (Do not simply title your piece SecondPersonQueer.com, at least not the version you submit to us.) 2) Include your name, your mailing address, your email address, and a bio WITHIN the .doc file with your piece, as submissions will be separated from emails to be read. 3) Submit your work by email, as an attachment in .doc format, to secondpersonqueer@gmail.com Deadline: Mar. 15, 2008. Payment: a small honorarium and one copy of the book will be paid. (Please note that payment is in Canadian funds.) As an anthology for a Canadian publisher, preference will be given to submissions from Canadian writers. But the anthology is open to submissions from all writers, and is actively interested in non-North American writers. About the editors Richard Labont has been the editor of the BEST GAY EROTICA series since 1997, and of the anthologies COUNTRY BOYS, BOYS IN HEAT, BEST GAY ROMANCE 2008, BEST GAY BONDAGE, WHERE THE BOYS ARE, and HOT GAY EROTICA. He writes the syndicated review column "Book Marks" for Q Syndicate ( www.qsyndicate.com) and also the Gay Men's Edition of Books to Watch Out For (www.btwof.com). For many years the general manager of A Different Light Bookstores in California, he returned to Canada in 2001, and lives with his husband Asa on Bowen Island, BC, with forays back to a farm in rural eastern Ontario. Lawrence Schimel is an award-winning author and anthologist who has published over 80 books in many different genres, including PoMoSEXUALS: CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT GENDER AND SEXUALITY, TWO BOYS IN LOVE, BEST DATE EVER: TRUE STORIES THAT CELEBRATE GAY RELATIONS, THE DRAG QUEEN OF ELFLAND, THINGS INVISIBLE TO SEE: LESBIAN AND GAY TALES OF MAGIC REALISM, THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF NEW GAY EROTICA, SWITCH HITTERS: LESBIANS WRITE GAY MALE EROTICA AND GAY MEN WRITE LESBIAN EROTICA, and BEST GAY POETRY 2008, among others. He lives in Madrid, Spain with his husband, Ismael Attrache. Together, Labont and Schimel are the editors of THE FUTURE IS QUEER and FIRST PERSON QUEER, also published by Arsenal Pulp Press. About the publisher Arsenal Pulp Press ( www.arsenalpulp.com) is an independent Canadian publisher located in Vancouver, BC, which has published titles such as QUEER VIEW MIRROR, QUICKIES, HOT AND BOTHERED, OUT/LINES: UNDERGROUND GAY GRAPHICS FROM BEFORE STONEWALL, SEMINAL: THE ANTHOLOGY OF CANADA'S GAY MALE POETS, and the Little Sisters Classics series, among many other queer-interest titles.
Posted 11/15/2007: A Midsummer Night's Press announces two new annual anthologies: BEST GAY POETRY edited by Lawrence Schimel and BEST LESBIAN POETRY edited by Linda Alvarez For the 2008 editions of this exciting new series celebrating the best in gay/lesbian poetry, A Midsummer Night's Press invites submissions of poems PUBLISHED during 2007. Poems can have appeared in print or online magazines, journals, or anthologies; we are also willing to consider poems from books or chapbooks first published in 2007, even if the poem was originally published previously in periodicals, so long as the poet has the right to reprint the poem. We are open to all styles of poetry, from formal to free verse; we are likewise open-minded in terms of content, so long as it somehow fits (even if pushing the boundaries of) what might be considered "gay poetry" or "lesbian poetry". We are willing to consider slam poetry, so long as it has been published in text form, not merely performed; the poem must also work on the page, for these anthologies. We are open to English-language poetry from all over the world, and actively look to include non-North American voices. Please title documents with the poet's surname. Please include contact information (both street and email address), bio, and where the poem was published WITHIN the .doc file, as documents will be read separately from the emails. Submissions from individual poets or queries should be sent by email in .doc format to one of the following addresses, as appropriate: BestGayPoetry@gmail.com or BestLesbianPoetry@gmail.com Deadline is December 1, 2007. (We will consider submissions of work that is scheduled to appear in the latter half of the year, but which has not yet been published.) In each volume, A Midsummer Night's Press also plans to include a round-up of all books/journals/anthologies of gay/lesbian poetry published the previous year. (We also welcome recommendations or suggestions of appropriate poems from editors of journals, anthologies, or presses.) Books and journals for review can be sent to the attention of the appropriate editor at: A Midsummer Night's Press 16 West 36th Street 2nd Floor New York NY 10018 amidsummernightspress@gmail.com www.amidsummernightspress.com About the Editors Linda Alvarez is the editor of the anthologies BEST DATE EVER: TRUE STORIES THAT CELEBRATE LESBIAN RELATIONSHIPS (Alyson) and DYKE THE HALLS: EROTIC LESBIAN CHRISTMAS TALES (Circlet) and lives in New York City. Lawrence Schimel is an award-winning author and anthologist who has published over 80 books, including FIRST PERSON QUEER (Arsenal Pulp), TWO BOYS IN LOVE (Seventh Window), THE FUTURE IS QUEER (Arsenal Pulp), PoMoSEXUALS (Cleis), and TWO HEARTS DESIRE (St. Martin's Press). He also edited the first (and so far only) anthology of gay love poetry to appear in Catalan, ELLS S'ESTIMEN (Llibres de l'Index). His poems have appeared in a diverse array of periodicals, from THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR to PHYSICS TODAY to THE LYRIC, and have been widely anthologized in GAY LOVE POETRY, THE PRACTICE OF PEACE, CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE HORSE-LOVER'S SOUL 2, and THE RANDOM HOUSE TREASURY OF LIGHT VERSE, among others. He lives in Madrid, Spain with his husband, Ismael Attrache. About the Publisher: A Midsummer Night's Press (www.amidsummernightspress.com) is an independent publisher devoted primarily to poetry, publishing under three imprints: Fabula Rasa for work inspired by fairy tales or mythology, Funny Bones for light verse and humor, and Body Language for works exploring sexuality and queer subjects. The press' first titles include THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED IN OUR OTHER LIFE by Achy Obejas, THE GOOD-NEIGHBOR POLICY: A DOUBLE-CROSS IN DOUBLE DACTYLS by Charles Ardai, and FAIRY TALES FOR WRITERS by Lawrence Schimel. A Midsummer Night's Press is distributed by SPD ( www.spdbooks.org).
Posted 11/12/2007: Travel Queeries is a feature-length documentary film that examines the culture, art and activism of radical queers in contemporary Europe. http://www.travelqueeries.com Travel Queeries has just finished two years of production, filming on location in over 9 different European cities. For post-production, the project is looking to add positions. *It is preferred that applicants live in or close to Seattle. Looking for: Production Intern: Intern will be in contact with interviewees & collaborating artists, research distributors, audio/color mastering, catalog and transcribe footage. PR/Design Intern: Intern will create PR materials (digital/print), research & make database of festivals, screening venues & publications. Hands on design work for website and poster, post cards and assist with screenings. Editor: We are looking for an Editor that is a good fit for Team TQ. Interested applicants must be familiar with queer culture/culturally competent. This is a great fit for someone who has experience and is also flexible around compensation. Goal for rough cut of the feature is June 2008, finishing work in Fall and completion date January 2009. Producer: Looking for experienced producer who is interested in helping this strong film through post-production and distribution. The film has great footage and collaborating artist and is an exciting project to get involved in. Start Date: January 2008 If you are interested, please send resume/CV and description of your interest in working on Travel Queeries to Elliat Graney-Saucke (Director/Executive Director): elliat_graneysaucke@yahoo.com DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF OPENINGS: http://www.travelqueeries.com/?q=node/162
Posted 9/21/2007: The Open Door Project A five-day publishing introduction intensive in New York City-- including a series of lunches with literary agents, book editors, and other publishing figures, a public reading, and a private cocktail reception with New York's writing community will be awarded to the winner of the first Open Door Project fiction competition. The contest is open to gay men writing fiction with queer content who have not yet published a book of fiction. Accommodations and transportation will be provided to an out of town winner. Judges include Christopher Bram, Alexander Chee, Samuel R. Delany, Dennis Cooper, Robert Gluck, E. Lynn Harris, Scott Heim, Andrew Holleran, David Leavitt, Stephen McCauley, Dale Peck, and John Weir. Submit stories or stand-alone novel excerpts of up to 8,000 words by March 1, 2008. The winner will be announced June 08. There is no entry fee. Submissions should be mailed to: Don Weise, Open Door Project c/o Oscar Wilde Bookshop 15 Christopher St New York, NY 10014 Please do not contact the bookstore for information about the Open Door Project. Queries can be sent to dweised@aol.com. No queries confirming receipt or status of submissions please.
Posted 8/12/2007: Coming out American Style: "Am I the only queer person in------?!?!?" Is there a difference between coming out in New Jersey as oppose to Oklahoma? To answer this question I are calling for submissions for a new anthology of coming out stories "COMING OUT AMERICAN STYLE" celebrating the diversity of the American experience. I are looking for coming out stories from the entire GLBT community. The goal is to have a story from every state and territory of the United States of America and to have every story followed by contact information from GLBT organizations of that state or territory. I am looking to answer for every young person "Am I the only one?" We know they are not alone and this anthology will be a way to let them know. If you would like to share your story and any information about GLBT organizations in your state please send your submissions to Tashamee Dorsey at COAmericanstyle@aol.com. Story guidelines: Story length should be between 1500 and 5000 words in length. Deadline for submissions is January, 23 2008. Submissions are answering the following question: "How did where I came out affect how I came out?"
Posted 8/5/2007: The New Black Lace Book of Women's Sexual Fantasies edited and compiled by Mitzi Szereto Author and anthologist Mitzi Szereto is currently compiling material for the above mentioned anthology, which is due to coincide with the fifteenth anniversary of the Black Lace imprint of Virgin Publishing in the UK. This book will be a collection of genuine sexual fantasies from women of all ages, the aim being to provide readers with a peek into what goes on in the minds of real women. It will be both enlightening and titillating, offering insight into our sexual culture today. A questionnaire can be found at the Black Lace website. Note that all questionnaires and the identity of participants will be kept completely confidential; likewise if your material is used in the book. Visit the Black Lace website and click on the shoe! http://www.blacklace-books.co.uk (Author and anthologist Mitzi Szereto has more than a dozen books to her credit, including the critically acclaimed Erotic Fairy Tales: A Romp Through the Classics; The World' s Best Sex Writing 2005 (non-fiction/criticism); the multi-genre Dying For It: Tales of Sex & Death; Wicked: Sexy Tales of Legendary Lovers; the popular Erotic Travel Tales anthology series, and the upcoming Getting Even: Revenge Stories (Serpent' s Tail). She's also penned several best-selling erotic novels under the name M. S. Valentine, including the special double volume Celia Collection. Her work has been translated into several languages, including Russian. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in publications worldwide. Mitzi is the pioneer of the erotic writing workshop in the UK and Europe, teaching them from the prestigious Cheltenham Festival of Literature to the Greek islands. Her outspoken views on the erotic literary scene have made her a trendsetter, earning her a reputation as the author and editor who has put the "literature" back into erotica. Her authority on the subject has made her a widely sought out interviewee, and she's been featured in publications ranging from the Sunday Telegraph (London), Independent (London), Times (London, including the Sunday Times Travel Section and the Times Higher Education Supplement), Observer (London), The Sun (London), Company Magazine , Family Circle, Writing Magazine, Toronto Star, Scarlet Magazine, Leicester Mercury, Sheffield Telegraph and Forum to Bravo UK Television, Telecinco TV 5 (Madrid), and BBC Radio (including the Asian Network). She's a regular contributor to Penthouse Magazine and the Erotic Review. Her work as an anthology editor has earned her the American Society of Authors and Writers Meritorious Achievement Award. Her anthology Erotic Travel Tales 2 is the first anthology of erotica to feature a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Originally from the USA, she now lives in England.) Visit Mitzi's MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/mitzi_szereto
Posted 8/4/2007 A call for submissions! Good Vibrations, the legendary destination for sex-positive products, announces The Second Annual Good Vibrations Amateur Erotic Film Competition. Submit your erotic-themed film to our Amateur Erotica Film Competition and you may end up a star! Submissions must be 10 minutes or less. All participates in the film must be over 18 (we require a 2257 form), and you must reside in one of the seven major Bay Area counties. Submit your film in mini DV, VHS or DVD format. For all of the official Rules and Regulations visit http://www.goodvibes.com/Content--Good-Vibrations-Erotic-Film-Competit ion--id-1997 The top winning entries will be shown on the big screen of the Castro Theatre on October 11, 2007. The deadline to submit your entry in Store or at our office is September 10, 2007. Mail to: 938 Howard Street, Suite 101, San Francisco, CA 94103, Attention: Camilla, or drop-off at one of our San Francisco Bay Area locations. (603 Valencia St., SF; 1620 Polk St., SF; 2504 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley)
Posted 7/11/2007 *Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism* Anthology scheduled for publication in 2008 by Rebel Satori Press. The Surrealists and the radical edge of gay lib represent two of the most sweeping movements for liberation of the last century and both continue to this day. Moreover, the pair also created two remarkable "cultures of desire," seeing sexuality as a primordial, transformative force, and exploring the power of dreams, fantasies, personae. They provided homes to the /flaneur/ and saw the city and its hidden places as vital, almost alive and in different, but related, ways both saw the worlds of the imagination and "real life" as overlapping each other. More importantly, the two took such things as actively political /revolutionary/ in fact. These resonances can be found in the depictions of Paris in Aragon and the swooning landscape of sections of White's /Nocturnes for the King of Naples/, in the novels of Rene Crevel and the extensions of automatism and dream material in much of Burroughs, in the permeability of text-world-voice in (largely queer) New Narrative writing, in the obsessional desire that animates great swatches of both Breton's anti-novels and Wojnarowicz's memoirs. And the list of analogues could be longer&Given this, we feel it's high time for an anthology of prose investigating this subterranean relationship. *We're looking for:* Short fiction and essays, prose poems, automatic texts and dream narratives, genre-defying pieces that explore/embody the relationships between gay men and Surrealism as a radical/literary movement exploring desire, the imagination and the fluid boundaries between the world and the mind. *We'd prefer not to see:* Memoirs about how seeing that picture in the MOMA changed your life, writing that takes "surreal" as a synonym for "strange." And, if your main reference points for surrealism are a couple of Dali paintings, this anthology probably isn't the place for your work. Send submissions to: Peter Dub, PO Box 643, Succ. Place du Parc, Montreal, Quebec H2X 4A6, Canada. Enclose SASE (sufficient Canadian postage or IRC's) for the return of your material if you want it back. Submissions without same will be destroyed. Email submissions will be deleted unopened. Deadline: September 30, 2007 All that being said, we're looking forward to reading you.
Posted 4/13/2007 The Slash Skinny: News and Market Report on Original Slash, Femslash, Yaoi, and Yuri The Slash Skinny is a news and market report on four genres of professionally published literature and art featuring same-sex attraction. The report, which is edited by Dusk Peterson, takes the form of a downloadable HTML file that includes dozens of links. Regular columns: Publishing industry news, news of individuals, interviews, awards and contests, conventions and other events, new issues, new books, older books, new online works, calls for submission, staff openings, markets and submission guidelines, dead markets, booksellers, professional organizations, publishing cooperatives and subscription Websites, and self-publishing. Ordering information and free online archives: http://duskpeterson.com/skinny
Posted 2/21/2007: Call for submissions MIXED FRUIT Mixed Fruit: Writings from Multi-racial Queer Communities CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS How do mixed queers experience "passing" in regards to our racial/ethnic backgrounds, our sexualities and our genders? How do the experiences of our multi-racial families effect our genders and sexualities? What are the ways other identities play into being mixed race/transracially adopted and queer (such as being parents, being differently abled, immigrants, etc.). How does being "othered" in regards to race apply to being "othered" in regards to gender and sexuality? I am looking for original essays and poems that address the specific experiences of multiracial and queer identities in a broad range of topics. Submission Guidelines: WHO CAN SUBMIT? People who identify as mixed race/multi-racial, mixed blood, transracially adopted and/or identify with mixed cultures (such as mestizo and Creole). Who also identify as lesbian, gay, two-spirit, bisexual, mahu, bakla, transgender, intersex, joto, or any "queer" identity. More than one piece may be accepted and submissions may be made in multiple categories. Nonfiction: Maximum 2 pieces, up to 6,000 words each. Creative non-fiction, interviews and essays will all be accepted. Poetry: Maximum 5 poems, 5 pages or less per poem. All submissions must be typed and double-spaced. Please send submissions by mail only. Email for questions/clarification at logangutierrezmock@yahoo.com Mail submissions, a short bio, and all contact information to: Mixed Fruit c/o Logan Gutierrez-Mock P.O. Box 14637 San Francisco, CA 94114-0637 Compensation: Contributors will receive one copy of the anthology and monetary compensation (with a minimum of $20 per contribution). DEADLINE for submissions is May 15th, 2007.
Posted 2/2/2007: Beyond Masculinity http://www.beyondmasculinity.com/ Gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer men's gender identities often exist somewhere outside the traditional categories of "masculine" and "feminine." Sissies, drag queens, and leather daddies alike play with gender in a way that cannot be accounted for in traditional understandings of maleness. This collection -- part blog, part anthology, part audiobook -- aims to shatter traditional understandings of maleness and point towards a new understanding of how queerness and gender intersect. BEYOND MASCULINITY is looking for contributions in four key areas. Contributors should not feel bound by these categories - they should rather be seen as potential prompts: - Identity Intersections: How do race, ability, class, and other kinds of identities and experiences intersect with gender and queerness -- and how do these intersections complicate our relationship to traditional understandings of "maleness?" - Feminism, Gender, and Politics: How can feminism inform our understanding of queer male gender? Can queer men be feminists? How can we use our queerness as a political tool? What does male privilege look like for queer men? - Bodies, Desire, and Pleasure: What kinds of male bodies are desired? Fetishized? Where does sexual desire intersect with queer gender and how are these politics mapped out on our bodies? - Queer Male Communities: How are our identities produced through our communities? How do the gender norms and politics of gay/bi/trans/queer male communities both liberate and constrain us? We're looking for queer male writers to step up and contribute their thoughts to this online project. This is not your typical bookstore anthology. It will be only available online - and it will be completely free of charge to the public. Wih its unique implementation of media, this anthology aims to change the way queer non-fiction is done. http://www.beyondmasculinity.com/
Posted 1/12/2007: Call for Submissions FIRST PERSON QUEER: Who We Are, Where We've Come From, Where We're Going edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel for publication in Fall 2007 by Arsenal Pulp Press We're looking for short (under 1500 words) first person essays from across the spectrum of queer experience that depict the diversity, the complexity, and the excitement of contemporary GLBTQ life. We want to be surprised, and to surprise our readers, with intensely personal experiences from writers of diverse genders, ages, races, and orientations, informing us about unusual aspects of our lives. Comprehending queer codes, exulting in nonconformity, expressing gender deviance, confronting assimilation, having to "pass": write about the theory of your life. Discuss sissyhood, parenting skills, sexual experiences (play or work), urban pleasures, personal choices: write about the practice of your life. We've all got a story to tell. Share yours. Express your "I". Topic and tone--witty, reflective, satirical, learned--are open to your imaginations, as long as the writing is real. What's going to make us sit up and pay attention are essays that go beyond the traditional tales of coming out, first love, breaking up, the death of a lover, the acceptance--or not--of parents. These are important stories, and intriguing twists on them will be considered, but they've been done; we're unlikely to include more than one or two. So: offer us something different, something less easy to categorize. Give us a glimpse of an instructive physical moment or a transcendent emotional passage from your dyke, fag, tranny, bi, or otherwise queer life. Prose or graphic/comix narratives, no poetry. Submit your work by email, as an attachment in .doc format, with author's last name and story title in the file name: Surname-Title.doc, to Richard Labonte at: fpqueer@gmail.com Please include contact details and bio in the .doc file, not just in your email; submissions that are considered will be separated from the emails. Deadline: Feb. 28, 2007. Payment: a small honorarium and one copy of the book will be paid. (Please note that payment is in Canadian funds.) As an anthology for a Canadian publisher, preference will be given to submissions from Canadian writers. But the anthology is open to submissions from all writers, and is actively interested in non-North American writers. About the editors Richard Labonte has been the editor of the BEST GAY EROTICA series since 1997, and of the anthologies COUNTRY BOYS and HOT GAY EROTICA. He writes the syndicated review column "Book Marks" for Q Syndicate (www.qsyndicate.com) and also the Gay Men's Edition of Books to Watch Out For (www.btwof.com). For many years the general manager of A Different Light Bookstores, he moved home to Ontario, Canada in 2001, where he lives with his husband, Asa Dean Liles, and their dog Zak. Lawrence Schimel is an award-winning author and anthologist who has published over 80 books in many different genres, including PoMoSEXUALS: CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT GENDER AND SEXUALITY (with Carol Queen), BEST DATE EVER: TRUE STORIES THAT CELEBRATE GAY RELATIONS, THE DRAG QUEEN OF ELFLAND, THINGS INVISIBLE TO SEE: LESBIAN AND GAY TALES OF MAGIC REALISM, THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF NEW GAY EROTICA, SWITCH HITTERS: LESBIANS WRITE GAY MALE EROTICA AND GAY MEN WRITE LESBIAN EROTICA (with Carol Queen), and TWO BOYS IN LOVE, among others. Since 1999, he has lived in Madrid, Spain. Together, Labonte and Schimel are the editors of THE FUTURE IS QUEER, also published by Arsenal Pulp Press. About the publisher Arsenal Pulp Press (www.arsenalpulp.com) is an independent Canadian publisher located in Vancouver, BC, which has published titles such as QUEER VIEW MIRROR edited by James Johnstone and Karen X. Tulchinsky, OUT/LINES: UNDERGROUND GAY GRAPHICS FROM BEFORE STONEWALL, WITH A ROUGH TONGUE: FEMMES WRITE PORN edited by Amber Dawn and Trish Kelley, and the Little Sisters Classics series, among many other queer-interest titles.
Posted 1/5/2007: Essays, poems, artwork and other creative two-dimensional works are wanted for the FORGE Forward 2007 Conference and Intensives Program Book. “Honoring Our Complexities” is the Conference theme, and we’d like the Program Book to include some thought-provoking reflections on what that means for individuals, for the trans/SOFFA community, and for our larger society. Programming for this Conference spans everything from very practical skills-building to very provocative and open challenges to what we typically recognize, include and honor, and what we don’t. We are seeking articles and/or artwork that also span this wide range: how-to’s, manifestos, narratives, personal stories…send us whatever you think of when you hear “Honoring Our Complexities.” Prose and poetry should be under 1,000 words, and artwork should be reproducible in black and white on an 8-1/2” X 11” page. Creators of published works will be given credit and additional program books to distribute as they see fit, and will be offered display space (artists) or an opportunity to read their work aloud (authors) at the Conference. Conference organizers reserve the sole right to choose what is published. Deadline: February 10, 2007. Works should be emailed to conference@forge-forward.org. If you must mail us paper artwork (no originals please!), contact us by email before February 10 to make appropriate arrangements. Please include contact information and a bio with your submission(s). Questions? Email conference@forge-forward.org or call 414-559-2123. For more information on the FORGE Forward 2007 Conference and Intensives, see our website at http://www.forge-forward.org/conference
Posted 1/5/2007: Queer and Catholic Anthology The Haworth Press scheduled for publication mid 2007 Tell us these stories: I've felt different from the kids around me my entire life. When I was 8, I was sure I would be a martyred saint. This would prove I was special to God. I went so far as to plan out how the Church would kill me and pick the date and duties of my Sainthood. My favorite game became Saint. I remember when I was in second grade during lent they would send home a paper bowl into which we as a family were to put the difference between the meal we would have eaten--steak, potatoes and green beans--and the actual meal we ate--rice and vegetables--each Friday during lent. That money was used to buy babies in third world countries. Imagine my surprise at the end of the year when I learned we didn't actually own the babies. My first real crush was on another alter boy who served with me on Saturdays. But before John there was Jesus who I desperately wanted to hold in my arms and kiss. I was devastated to discover that as a boy I wouldn't be allowed to wear a first communion dress to my first communion. I was devastated that as a girl I couldn't wear a color or say mass. Call Whether we embrace or reject our Catholic upbringings, they affect and shape who we are and bump up against our queer identities. Give us the light-hearted stories of profound discovery that you made as a Catholic youth and connect those memories of incense, vestments, saints, prayers, sacraments, and images to your then budding queer identity. Do you to this day eroticize rituals that have their roots in the Catholic Church? Did Joan of Arc shape your queer identity, or was she the standard you held your first dates up to? What messages did the church send you as you discovered your queer identity and how did you filter or bend what you were discovering about yourself to make it fit church doctrine? How did growing up in the Catholic faith affect the adult you have become? We are interested in the culture of Catholicism rather than the dogma or letter of it. Tell us about it from your heart, not your head. Personal essays, narrative prose, and creative nonfiction preferred. Short stories or novel excerpts that illustrate the theme will also be considered. 5000 word max. Limited poetry will be accepted. For poetry, query first. Previously unpublished work only. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS FEBRUARY 21, 2007. GUIDELINES: 1) Submissions should be no less than 1,500 words and no more than 5,000 words, and must be typed (preferably in Times New Roman, 12 font), double-spaced, and printed on one side of the page only. Please number the pages. 2) Submit TWO HARD COPIES, INCLUDING TWO COVER LETTERS AND BIOS. All manuscripts must be disposable. (If accepted, final manuscript must be submitted on disk.) 3) Name, address, phone number, E-mail address, and word count should appear on the first page. Last name and email in the footer of every page. 4) Please include a brief bio of no more then 75 words. 5) SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope) must be provided if you wish to be notified by "snail mail". Others will be notified through E-mail. 6) Only unpublished materials will be considered at a pay rate of $75 to $100. Contributors will receive one copy of the book. Submit stories to: Amie M. Evans/Trebor Healey 33 Campbell Street Woburn, Ma 01801 For information ONLY: Pussywhippedproductions@hotmail.com Amie M. Evans is a widely published creative nonfiction and literary erotica writer, experienced workshop provider, and a retired burlesque and high-femme drag performer. Her short stories and essays have appeared most recently in the Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2006 (Alyson) and Show and Tell (Alyson), Call of the Dark (Bella 2005); 2006 Lambda Literary Award Nominated Rode Hard and Put Away Wet (Suspect Thoughts Press 2005); Best of The Best of Lesbian Erotica (Cleis Press); and Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2005 (Alyson Publications). She also writes gaymale erotica under a pen name. Evans is on the board of directors for Saints and Sinners GLBT literary festival. She graduated Magna cum Laude from the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in Literature and is currently working on her MLA at Harvard. She is currently co-editing an anthology on Drag Kings for Suspect Thoughts Press with Rakelle Valencia. Evans is the author of Two Girls Kissing, a column on writing lesbian erotica which can be found at erotic readers association and co-author of a writing tips column, unsolicited advice, with Toni Amato which can be found on http://www.sasfest.org Recipient of the 2004 Ferro-Grumley and Violet Quill awards for his first novel, Through It Came Bright Colors (Harrington Park Press), Trebor Healey is also the author of 5 poetry chapbooks and a collection of poems, Sweet Son of Pan, (Suspect Thoughts, 2006). His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals, zines, anthologies and reviews, including The Chiron Review; Long Shot; The James White Review; Van Gogh's Ear; Holy Titclamps; The Lodestar Quarterly; The Blithe House Quarterly; VelvetMafia.com; Ashe!; Queer Dharma; Signs of Life; When I Knew; Quickies 3; M2M; Wilma Loves Betty; Out of Control; Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache; Skin and Ink; Best Gay Erotica 2003, 2004, 2006, and Best of Best Gay Erotic 2, as well as Best American Erotica, 2007. Trebor's short story, "Mercy Seat," was selected as one of the top ten online stories of 2004 by StorySouth.com. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley and raised in a traditional Irish Catholic home, Trebor was a Marian heretic while growing up and became a Buddhist in his early 20s. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is completing a short story collection, A Perfect Scar. http://www.treborhealey.com.
Posted 1/3/2007 True Tales: An Erotic E-zine of Masculinity and Power ( http://truetales.org) is a free online gay magazine. More information ( http://truetales.org/aboutus.htm) is available on the history of the e-zine and the honors it has received . True Tales publishes narrative nonfiction and fiction. Narrative poetry, drama, book excerpts, and blog entries may also be submitted, as well as links to art, photography, and videos. Both unpublished works and reprints will be considered. Erotic and non-erotic works are both welcome. All writings must include a narrative (that is, a series of connected events). All submissions must be on a topic related to masculinity and power, such as masculine icons (cops, cowboys, etc.) or power dynamics between men. Authors and artists may be of any gender and sexual orientation. Submissions may not include erotic depictions of minors. Other than that, any characters/people, plot, setting, theme, genre, length, and lightness or darkness of tone will be considered. Works (including stories) that offer a realistic portrayal of gay life are especially welcome, but fanciful works may be submitted too. Submissions that include societal minorities or that break past the conventions of gay erotic literature and art are also especially welcome. 2006-7 theme (until October 31, 2007): Military Men. 2008 theme (until October 31, 2008): Businessmen. Submissions are accepted at all times of the year. Submissions on topics not related to the yearly themes are also welcome. True Tales is a non-paying market that asks for non-exclusive Web rights in the English language for one year. Visit the e-zine's submission guidelines ( http://truetales.org/submissions.htm ) for more information.
Posted 12/7/2006: BEST GAY EROTICA 2008: Call for submissions Short stories, novel excerpts, memoirs, narrative artwork, essays -- original or reprint - are now being accepted for Best Gay Erotica 2008, to be published by Cleis Press in late fall of 2007. Maximum length preferred: 6,000 words; no minimum. Reprints must have appeared in print or online, or been scheduled to appear, between July 2006 and June 2007. Best Gay Erotica is not a "theme" anthology, so anything goes - any fantasy, all flesh, any kink, and every genre - as long as the work is intensely erotic, lusciously literary, and quite, quite queer. Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2007 for late Fall 2007 publication. 35-40 stories will be selected by series editor Richard Labonte from among the submissions. Winners will be chosen from the finalists by this year's judge, Emanuel Xavier. Emanuel Xavier is author of the novel Christ Like, the poetry collection Americano, and editor of the anthology Bullets & Butterflies: queer spoken word poetry. He appears in the Logo film The Ski Trip and has been featured on Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry. He is also founder of the House of Xavier and the annual Glam Slam competition. "My first publication ever was in Richard Labonte's Best Gay Erotica series and I am truly honored and excited to be the first Pier Queen and spoken word artist to have the opportunity to choose the finalists." -Emanuel Xavier Queries and submissions to: bge2008@gmail.com in .doc format
Posted 11/30/2006: Ash Journal is seeking creative and inspiration pieces of short fiction, poetry, art and photography for our Spring 2007 issue (6.1). For this issue, we are particularly interested in pieces that explore the "American sadhu." We welcome pieces exploring any aspect of youthful independent renunciation with a particularly western flair... skate-rat squatters, punks, straight-edge, krsnacore, riot grrrls and other misfit toys! The flora and fauna of saying no to just saying no... Modern shaman, hardcore Buddhist, postmodern Christian or D all of the above... Please forward or repost this call to anyone you think might be interested. Questions and inquiries welcomed. Please submit material as electronic attachment to submit@ashejournal.com Deadline: March 1, 2007 For full submission guidelines, submission FAQ and author agreement, please refer to our website. http://www.ashejournal.com
Posted 8/31/2006: 1st Annual Good Vibrations Amateur Erotic Film Competition: Have you ever wanted to be in sexy cinema or to produce it? Have you ever wanted to see your work on the big screen? We thought so! Well, here's your chance! Make a short film (10 minutes max) with a sexual or erotic theme, fill out our entry forms and releases, and send it on in! Big prizes will be awarded! The premiere screening (featuring celebrity guest judges) will be held at the beautiful CASTRO THEATRE in San Francisco. There will also be an East Bay showing at the Parkway Speakeasy Theater in Oakland. Screenings are Thursday, October 26th, 8pm at the Castro theatre and Friday, October 27th, 9:15pm at the Parkway Speakeasy Theatre. The deadline to submit your film is September 30, 2006, 7pm PT. There is no purchase necessary and no entry fee! For more information, forms and releases, and details of entry, follow this link.
Posted 8/4/2006: *Gay Shame/ Queer Pride Zine contributions* what about being a Queer makes you smile from ear to ear? what makes you hang your head in Gay shame? During Twee Pride kaffequeeria (Manchester, UK) will be distributing a Gay Shame/ Queer Pride zine to folks at the main pride parade. The zine is intended both to identify to people just exactly what it is we are objecting to within mainstream, commercialised Gay culture and to celebrate our queerness. We would love if people could contribute articles of any format or genre (rant/ rave/poetry/cartoon...etc). email : tweepride@kaffequeeria.org.uk Submissions inh by the 12th of August 2006, please. copies will be sent to contributors. Please,* Please forward and circulate internationally, we are trying to get contributions from all over the globe! *
Posted 5/27/06 call for short documentary submissions- RETURN TO GRRRLVILLE film series Calling all women documentary filmmakers... The RETURN TO GRRRLVILLE film series is seeking submissions no longer than 15 minutes for inclusion in the June 29th event at the Women's Building. The series began in 2005 with the groundbreaking STRAIGHT OUTTA GRRRLVILLE. Eleven films screened at an almost sold-out show in the packed Women's Building auditorium. The event was covered by the Guardian and other local press, and received high acclaim. GRRRLVILLE's mission is to represent the diverse experiences of women in our community, and to make public presentation of our work easily available to all. If you have a little nugget of a film that you've been waiting to submit, or have been too intimidated by the festival series, now's your chance to get your film seen. The films that screened at last year's event were incredibly moving, inspiring, and had a large impact on all in attendance. This summer's GRRRLVILLE screening will be at the Women's Building, Thursday June 29th at 8pm. The screening will be followed by a short Q and A with the filmmakers. To be considered, films must be postmarked by June 2nd. Please send materials with a check for $10 to: Sally Rubin, Return to Grrrlville, 572A Wisconsin St., San Francisco, CA 94107. Contact: 415-216-6147.
Posted 4/12/2006: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS -- PLEASE POST WIDELY New Trans/Gender Variant Anthology SEX, DATING, AND RELATIONSHIPS IN THE TRANS / GENDER VARIANT COMMUNITY Edited by *Morty Diamond Looking for first person stories from trans and gender variant writers about the experience of dating, sex, relationships, and finding love. Topic examples: hilarious or heartbreaking dating stories, transitioning within a relationship, being trans and starting families, passing/not passing and how this affects our choices for dating, meeting our partners families, the idea of marriage - legal or otherwise, online dating, anonymous sex, sex and dating before and after surgery and/or hormones, how we negotiate sex. I strive to make this anthology as diverse as possible within age, race, sexuality, and gender identity. I encourage all writers who identify as transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, third gender, non-gender, or gender variant in some way to submit work. The length of your work should be between 1,500 and 3,000 words. Sexually explicit work is ok. Please include a short biography with your work. Please submit your writing via email to: newtransanthology@gmail.com Deadline: August 2006 If your work is accepted you will be paid a stipend and will get two free copies of the book. *Morty Diamond is the editor of the book "From the Inside Out, FTM and Beyond" and the producer and director of the film "Trannyfags".
Posted 3/13/2006: Hi everyone, The submissions to Nerve House, the DIY quarterly publication, are starting to come in (as are the subscriptions), so thanks to any of you who participated in those. As the publisher and editor, I would love to publish essays, rants, articles or poems that touch on our themes of Power and/or Choice on the following issues: Race Palestine Sexism Gentrification Religion Consumerism Queer Identity within current political struggles Worker Co-ops, collectives, ad hoc groups or other non-mainstream organizations Anarchy Please consider submitting. Contributors get a free 25-word bio in the directory. Submission information is below. Feel free to forward this email. Thanks! Sura Please distribute far and wide. We're looking for submissions from anywhere in the world, and a wide diversity of opinion, so don't be shy. Post it on your arts, politics and cultural lists, send it to your friends and your enemies and, of course, looking for your submissions as well NERVE house, the quarterly, DIY, print publication is back to give a voice to change through art! Using words, images and ideas - To inspire and outrage you - To present independent thought, opposing viewpoints and provocative ideas - To ask difficult questions, raise awareness and incite original action - To give voice to change through art SUBMIT! SUBMIT! SUBMIT! Themes for first issue (deadline 5/08/06): Power and/or Choice, broadly or loosely defined. All submissions must be previously unpublished (or include the names of where previously published) and under 800 words. Rights revert to author. Art in Words: Poetry, prose, rants, opinions Art in Images: Photography, comix, drawings, doodles (we love them): Please send images! Art in Ideas: Essays, commentaries, reviews Directory: Contributors are entitled to a 25-word listing/bio (must be included with submission) in the issue in which they are published. Submissions should be sent to: NERVE house nervehouse@yahoo.com 414.263.1513 Become part of NERVE house Subscribe: $35 for one year (4 issues). $50 for enhanced subscription (goodies included with publication). Email for subscription rates outside the U.S. Advertise: Promote yourself, your organization, collective, or business in our affordable directory. Distribute: Make NERVE house available at your caf, bookstore, co- op, indy business or revolutionary hangout. List Calendar Events: Let your happening make us happening. Volunteer: Advise, distribute, raise funds, edit, do layout, feed the crew, donate $, massages, office supplies or whatever you have. Call 414.263.1513 for more information.
Posted 3/13/2006 10th Annual Artists Against Rape VOICES ROOTED IN TRUTH SHAKE THE SKY Call for submissions dance, poetry, songs, flows We especially encourage submissions from women of color, immigrants, youth, elder folks, queer, transgender and genderqueer people, poor and working class people, first time performers, differently-abled folks, sex workers. Performers will receive a modest stipend Submit your work , here's how -- Spoken Word/Flows/Songs: Send in a Cassette/CD of piece, along with a written copy and short bio Dance: Send in a VHS or DVD and short bio if you are unable to provide a visual or audio aid, send in a written copy only. contact artistic committee (details below) if you have questions and/or concerns! THIS IS OUR DECADE YEAR OF CREATING A UNIQUE SPACE OF HEALING AND TRANSFORMATION THRU THE ARTS!! JOIN US IN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT ON JUNE 30TH AT THE BRAVA THEATRE, SAN FRANCISCO For details and or questions call 415-861-2024 ask for: Lisa at ext. 302 Lisathomas-adeyemo@sfwar.org or Roopa at ext. 308 roopasingh@sfwar.org Check our website out for details: http://www.sfwar.org Mail Submissions to: Artistic Committee 3543 18th Street San Francisco, CA 94110
Posted 2/1/2006 Flaming Film Festival: We are currently accepting submissions of feature-length and short film/videos by, about, or of interest to queers, lesbians, gay men, fetish freaks, bisexuals, and genderqueer and transgendered persons for the FLAMING FILM FESTIVAL2006: The 6th annual Minneapolis Queer Film Festival, May 26th - May 30th. FINAL DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 20, 2006 we specialize in underground, music videos, animations, experimental, non-narrative and queer youth screenings. we are looking for shorts and feature length films in all genres. especially movies that have not made it to the twin cities yet. we accomodate filmmakers each year, (especially young and emerging artists) with some travel, hospitality and festival passes. we want your movies to come to the midwest! there is no submission fee. please label pre-screening NTSC VHS tapes/dvds clearly with your name, running time, title and contact information. include any information about yourself and your works. please send your entries to Lisa Ganser Flaming Film Festival 1710 - 2nd Avenue S suite 2 Minneapolis, MN 55403 we will host a movies at many venues, including a number of free screenings for youth (21 and under) at District 202, our cities' queer youth center. we like to try to accomodate all formats of monie, and like the challenge of accomodating things like dual projections, super 8, and we loves us some 16mm. we look forward to hearing from you. http://www.flamingfilmfestival.com
Posted 1/13/2006 new sydney based fag mag called GAF to be launched soon... http://www.gafmagazine.com looking for contributers for the next issue. email submissions to... peco@gafmagazine.com
Posted 1/9/2006: Drag Kings: Short Story Erotica Amie M. Evans and Rakelle Valencia, editors Suspect Thoughts Press We want to create an anthology of realistic stories involving drag kings on- or offstage. In a dressing room, a parked car, a hotel room. All the glamour, or lack thereof, of dressing up like a man, performing for a screaming (or lame) crowd, traveling in intimate circumstances with other performers, or meeting all those fine women and bois who yell to take it off, that leads to sex, sex, sex. Or tell us tales of the hooking up that happens at these gigs between co-performers or lusty fans looking to bed their favorite kings. And make your story HOT. Deadline for submissions is April 1, 2006. Full guidelines available at: http://www.suspectthoughts.com/guidelines.htm
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(short version) Call for submissions: Best Gay Erotica 2007 Edited by Richard Labonte, judged by Timothy J. Lambert Deadline: April 15, 2006 Guidelines: Original work, or reprints that appeared or will have appeared from July 31, 2005 to June 30, 2006, are eligible; must be intensely erotic, lusciously literary, and quite, quite queer. Submissions to: bge2007@gmail.com (attachments okay). Or double-spaced hard copy to: Richard Labonte, 7-A Drummond St W., Perth ON, K7H 2J3 Canada. Email submissions preferred; mailed manuscripts will not be returned. (long version) Short stories, novel excerpts, memoirs, narrative artwork, essays - original or reprint - are now being accepted for Best Gay Erotica 2007, to be published by Cleis Press in late fall of 2006. Maximum length preferred: 5,000 words; no minimum. Reprints must have appeared in print or online, or been scheduled to appear, between July 31, 2005 and June 30, 2006. BGE is not a "theme" anthology, so anything goes - any fantasy, all flesh, any kink, all genres - as long as the work is intensely erotic, lusciously literary, and quite, quite queer. Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2006; 35-40 stories will be picked by series editor Richard Labonte from among the submissions, with winners chosen from among those finalists by this year's judge, Timothy J. Lambert (coauthor with Becky Cochrane of Three Fortunes in One Cookie and The Deal; one-fourth of the writing team for It Had to Be You, He's the One, I'm Your Man, and, coming in 2006, Someone Like You; and a contributor to Best Gay Love Stories 2005 and 2006). Submissions to: bge2007@gmail.com (attachments okay), or double-spaced hard copy to Richard Labonte, 7-A Drummond St W., Perth ON, K7H 2J3 Canada (email submissions preferred; mailed manuscripts will not be returned).
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Realness Is Overrated: Rejecting the Requirement to Pass CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS What lies are people forced to tell in order to gain acceptance as "real?" When someone passes -- as the "right" gender, race, class, sexuality, age, ability, body type, health status, ethnicity -- or a member of the dominant religion, political party, social/educational institution, exercise trend, fashion cult or sexual practice -- someone else fails. How do we break the rules and make the tools to skewer dominant cultural norms and open space for those in the margins? I'm looking for essays that explore and critique the various systems of power seen (or not seen) in the act of passing. I'm seeking not only scathing critiques of passing into the mainstream, but also essays that examine unconventional passings and standards for inclusion in subcultures and cultures of resistance. What does it take to pass as nonmonogamous, on the DL, genderqueer, totally broke, spiritual, ghetto fabulous, anti-capitalist, outside the beauty myth, differently-abled or completely uninterested in passing as anything? How healthy can a sick person feel? What about passing as crazy in order to get disability benefits, passing as Latino or Asian to avoid being targeted as an Arab, or passing as a woman in order to marry a man for citizenship (when youve recently transitioned from female to male)? I'm looking for essays that confront the perilous intersections of identity, categorization and community in order to challenge the very notion of belonging. I'm especially interested in confronting gender normativity within trans communities and racial profiling by individuals already marginalized by race, as well as rules of passing enforced by model minority mythologies, class striving obsessions and cultural appropriation scams. Realness Is Overrated will make sure that nothing escapes scrutiny. If we eliminate the requirement to pass, what delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation might we create? Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore is the editor, most recently, of Thats Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Soft Skull 2004) and the author of Pulling Taffy (Suspect Thoughts 2003). SPECIFICS: *Submit non-fiction essays of up to 6,000 words. All submissions must be typed and double-spaced, and sent by mail only (no email submissions, but feel free to contact me with queries, mattilda@sbcglobal.net). Please include a short bio. *The book will be published by Seal Press in 2007. Contributors will be paid $60-100 per accepted work, depending on the total number of essays included in the anthology. *Deadline is January 31, 2006 -- but the sooner, the better. *Send submissions to: Realness Is Overrated c/o Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore P.O. Box 640047 San Francisco, CA 94164-0047 http://www.mattbernsteinsycamore.com
Posted 7/4/2005: A Call for Submissions for Jota 2005: The Chicana Lesbian Body can be found at http://www.jotazine.org/submissions.html
Posted 5/16/2005: Call For Submissions - Transgender Artwork The Southern Comfort Conference is one of the transgender community's premier events. Every year, hundreds of people from around the world converge on Atlanta to partake of the rich variety of educational, social, and personal empowerment programming. This year, (our 15th, September 21 - 24, 2005) we plan to launch an exhibition of visual art produced by transgender, intersex and genderqueer artists. It is our intention is to support and promote trans & genderqueer art and artists. We are particularly interested in works that are trans-relevant. Submissions should be photo representations of your work, preferably in electronic format for ease of transmission. For information and to enter, go to http://www.sccatl.org/art_exhibit.htm the DEADLINE for submissions is August 15, 2005.
Posted 4/20/2005: "Rainbow Journeys" Book Seeks Inspiring True Stories Media Contact: Andy Chambliss, Anticipation Journeys Publishing, 877-665-2228, e-mail info@RainbowJourneys.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Rainbow Journeys" Book Seeks Inspiring True Stories "Rainbow Journeys for the Gay and Lesbian Spirit," coming this fall, is looking for true stories from across the spectrum of gay life. The book will be an uplifting volume filled with stories of coming out and coming together, and the publishers are gathering great stories from real people. Topics will include Coming Out, Family, Friends, Falling in Love, Overcoming Obstacles, Parenting, Legal Issues, Discovery or Orientation, Inspiration, Socializing, Growing Up, and Miscellaneous. Anyone with a story to share is encouraged to send it via e-mail to submissions@rainbowjourneys.com. Stories can also be mailed to Rainbow Journeys at P.O. Box 54082, Tulsa, OK 74155. Stories should be between 300 and 1500 words and written in Microsoft Word or Text. Stories may also be submitted as text in the body of an e-mail. Rainbow Journeys will also include a few poems and line illustrations. All electronic submissions must include the author's name and e-mail address. Stories submitted through the mail must include the author's name and street address. If a selected author prefers to remain anonymous in print, the publishers will respect that wish, but the publishers need all author's names and a contact address for correspondence. Authors of any item chosen for the book will receive a bionote in the book plus one complimentary copy of the volume. Authors need not be professional writers. The volume will be edited by an experienced book author and editor. Stories will be selected for their message, not their punctuation. Deadline for submissions is July 15, 2005. Authors with stories selected for the book will be notified by July 31. Tentative release date for the book is September 15, 2005. More information is available at http://www.rainbowjourneys.com Artwork available: Electronic file in various formats available from Anticipation Journeys Publishing. Send artwork requests to info@RainbowJourneys.com. Anticipation Journeys Publishing is a new alternative publishing house based in Tulsa, OK. Anticipation Journeys is staffed by published authors and editing professionals looking to bring great books to the gay and lesbian reading public. All correspondence should be addressed to Anticipation Journeys Publishing, P.O. Box 54082, Tulsa, OK 74155 or e-mail info@RainbowJourneys.com.
Posted 2/10/2005 A Call to Writers, Sound Artists, Painters, Drawers, Printmakers, and Photographers We are working on the third in a series of zines based on Greek and Roman myths. The first two were "Persephone" and "Cupid + Psyche". The new zine will be about Orpheus, with whom you may be familiar as the great musician of Greek mythology, one of the Argonauts on Jasons famed voyages, or the guy who lost his beloved Eurydice forever when he looked back. "Orpheus" will be made up of a book component and an audio component on CD. We seek original art, sound recordings (music or other), and writing somehow related to the story. GUIDELINES: Writing: We are primarily interested in fiction and poetry. Send queries and submissions to: andrealawlor@earthlink.net. Art: Art should be reproducible in black and white; color artwork will be considered, however. The paper size will be 8.5x14 folded in half the fat way. If you have other ideas that might require inserts or foldouts, let's talk about it. Send queries and submissions to: andrealawlor@earthlink.net. Music/Audio: Digital audio submissions should be on CD or DAT. All sound submission queries to emilyeliotmiller@yahoo.com Please snail mail to: EE Miller, 30 Fort Square East, Greenfield, MA 01301. DEADLINE: June 1, 2005 CONTACT: andrealawlor@earthlink.net Copies of "Persephone" and "Cupid + Psyche" are available at Dog Eared Books and Valencia Books (San Francisco) or by sending $5 per copy to Andrea Lawlor, 1930 West Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19130. All zines will be distributed by Last Gasp in 2005. Feel free to contact us with any questions you may have. Please forward this to anyone you think might be interested. And thanks for your interest in this ongoing project. -Andrea & Emily
Posted 6/30/2004: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Femina Potens currently seeks women and transgender artists of all mediums for our upcoming gallery season. Femina Potens is a non-profit arts gallery and performance space dedicated to promoting women and transgendered artists. Femina Potens strongly encourages women and transgendered persons of color as well as queer women and genderqueer artists to submit for consideration. Please send artist statement, bio, and 3-5 digital images on cd to: Femina Potens Artist Submissions 465 S. Van Ness SF, CA 94103. Please include a SASE if you would like your cds returned. Deadline is August 1st 2004.
UNPUBLISHED SHORT FICTION BY LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDERED AUTHORS Blithe House Quarterly http://www.blithe.com/ Blithe House Quarterly, the leading online journal of lesbian and gay literary fiction, is pleased to open submissions for its 2004 issues. Now in its seventh year of online publication, Blithe House Quarterly features new short stories by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) authors -- both emerging and established. With an average of over 24,000 readers per issue, Blithe House Quarterly is the most widely read of LGBT literary periodicals. OUT Magazine has called us "the central publishing arm of new queer fiction." A recipient of Encyclopaedia Britannica's Internet Guide Award, we are also a featured site on internet hubs. Suite101.com writes: "Blithe House Quarterly is an electronic magazine up to the standards of print." In fact, our literary standards our higher than those of many print media. We publish LGBT fiction not as a genre or ghetto, but as a literature that can stand by any other in its quality and innovation. A key guide to the gay and lesbian Internet said: "Setting the quality bar [for gay and lesbian writing] is the phenomenal site Blithe House Quarterly. It's awash in awards and rightly so. Of all gay and lesbian sites, Blithe House is the golden child, the one to be entered in the Literature Olympics. None of the stories needs special cosseting as our fiction. Be skeptical and go see the site!" - GAY & LESBIAN ON LINE, 3rd Edition Appearing in BHQ can be a great way to be noticed. Stories first published in Blithe House Quarterly have been reprinted in MEN ON MEN, BEST AMERICAN GAY FICTION, BEST LESBIAN LOVE STORIES, and in numerous short story collections. Anthology and magazine editors and literary agents read BHQ and solicit material from people we've published. For guidelines on submission, please see the site at http://www.blithe.com/ . Stories must be previously unpublished, fictional (as opposed to memoir), and usually 2500-7500 words in length. We recommend reading stories in recent issues. If you have questions after reading the site's submission guidelines and Frequently Asked Questions, please direct them to Aldo Alvarez at adalvarez@aol.com .
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