LINKS FOR CONFERENCES IN 2010
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=170289
http://www.conferencealerts.com/gender.htm
http://www.conferencealerts.com/women.htm
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/34271
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/33070
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ccs/icsa/conference2010/
http://melusmelow.blogspot.com/2009/02/conference-2010-chandigarh.html
http://pw.english.uwm.edu/~migc/?p=175
http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/2010/10CallforPapers.htm
http://germanstudiesblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/ags-conference-29-31-march-2010-call-for-papers/
http://www2.gender.hu-berlin.de/ztg-blog/?p=18101
http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/paris/iccfms/cfp.php
http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=80
http://www.crossroads2010.org/
Saraba Magazine
We’re accepting submissions all day long. Though we have limited hands, we’ve worked out a system where we can manage the submissions we receive. Please note the following carefully. As a result of shortage in personnel, we have decided to be as strict as possible. The following can be found on http://www.facebook.com/l/159c8;www.sarabamag.com/submissions.html:
Interested contributors are required to submit their works. Fiction writers are to submit stories not exceeding 5,000 words. Poets are to submit not more than three poems. The e-zine also welcomes submissions of reviews of books and published short stories. This should not exceed 1,500 words. The last category open for submission is creative non-fiction. In this genre we expect works that reflect creativity but are not stories. The word count for this is 1,500. Please include word count on the body of your submission.
Each issue the magazine would work on a theme. All entries (except reviews) should reflect the theme whether overtly or covertly.We are not bothered if the work submitted has been published elsewhere as long as the author still retains the right to publish it. If, however, Saraba is the first site that publishes the work, we expect to be credited when it is accepted elsewhere.Please submit alongside a bio not exceeding 50 words.
All works should be submitted in as an attachment (as a .doc file) and the relevant genre indicated in the subject line i.e. ‘Fiction Submission’ or ‘Poetry Submission.’ Entries should be sent to submissions@http://www.facebook.com/l/159c8;sarabamag.com. Please copy to sarabamag@gmail.com.
The deadlines for forthcoming issues are stated in the current issue of the magazine. (Note that the above guidelines are operative from January 2010, as there are special guidelines for our December Issue).Please note that contributors would not be paid.
We also receive entries for our online magazine. We receive entries in all the categories. There is no theme restriction for the online magazine. Please send a works to the same emails above. We accept only flash fiction (1,000 words or less) for our online magazine. Reviews, essays and creative non-fiction articles must not exceed 1,500 words. Do not send more than two poems. We receive entries for the online magazine at all times. On the subject line for our online magazine entry, write “Online Only.” If entries are not specified in this manner, we might assume you are submitting for the electronic magazine.
Please note that we have a major website overhaul in early December before our next issue is published. Send in your works for consideration. Please note the word count. Other guidelines for the electronic magazine also apply.Please note these guidelines as they differ from the magazine.We would respond to each entry we receive. Give us a month, at most.
Expecting your submission!
Books of the Year
In our Special December Issue, we wish to publish a collection of books writers and readers have best loved during the year, 2009. Though we are sending out special invitations, we’re also treating you to that specialty. Please send us (in about 200 words) what book(s) you read during the year that made the most profound meaning to you. It’s nothing technical. Just send a reply to this message and we’d access it.
The deadline for the submission for this issue is October 30. Hope you are making final changes to your story (3,000 to 10,000 words)? Already, our Editor (part time, God bless her) has gotten in touch with writers whose stories we’ve accepted (and rejected). We are still considering stories, though.
Several established writers have agreed to review the stories we receive. As noted earlier, the reviews would be published alongside the story.
We’re only soliciting for stories. So do not send any other genre to us, except for our online magazine.
On the issue, we hope to publish other unsolicited works, including short memoirs, featured photography, short interviews and so forth. Expect a bumper package.
Sentinel Poetry
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Sentinel Poetry (Online) strives to showcase the very best in poetry and graphics from all over the world. We pride ourselves to be one of the e-journals that have consistently attracted poets and artists working in the their very best creative zones.
Poetry Submission
Submit up to 6 poems up to 60 lines long, or a longer poem up to 200 lines long plus 2 shorter poems. There is no restriction to style or theme. Experimental poems that do not fit into the line limits above are welcome. We look forward to publishing more foreign language poems as long as they are accompanied with appropriate English language translations. Poems must be submitted with single line spacing and as Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format attachments.
Poems must be PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED in print or online. Poems posted in forums for discussion or workshops are not deemed to have been previously published. If you must submit a previously published poem, please ask the editor first.
IMPORTANT: Please write your name as you prefer to be credited on every page of your poetry.
All poetry submissions should be accompanied with a short biographical information on the poet. Keep it to the point: Name, Location, Recent Publications (if any), Awards (if any). There is no need to mention your poetic influences or the style you write in. These ought to be evident. If however you have come up with something never before seen, make a note on the page in which the work appears.
Don't forget to attach a JPEG photo of yourself. Head shots are good, but if you have a scenic photograph that tells a story of your locality, leisure time or habitat, by all means attach it.
Submissions are on-going. Please allow up to 8 weeks for the editors' decision. We seriously discourage simultaneous submissions.
Copyright: We acquire the copyright to your poetry as soon as we accept it for publication. The copyright immediately reverts to you as soon as we publish it.
Payment: We currently do not pay poets for publishing their work. We however guarantee you that your work will never go out of print.
Send to sentinelpoetry@hotmail.com
Graphics Submission
Submit up to 6 images in JPEG format plus a Photo of yourself. Your work may be Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, Photography, Textile Design.
All graphics submissions should be accompanied with a short biographical information on the Artist. Keep it to the point: Name, Location, Recent Exhibitions (if any), Awards (if any). There is no need to mention your artistic influences or style. These ought to be evident. If however you have come up with something never before seen, make a note on the page in which the work appears.
Don't forget to attach a JPEG photo of yourself. Head shots are good, but if you have a scenic photograph that tells a story of your locality, leisure time or habitat, by all means attach it.
Copyright: We acquire the copyright to your graphics as soon as we accept them for publication. The copyright immediately reverts to you as soon as we publish them.
Payment: We currently do not pay artists for publishing their work. We however guarantee you that your work will never go out of print.
Selling your work: If the artworks we publish are for sale, kindly say so, and we will provide information to our readers on how they may buy your work.
Send to sentinelpoetry@hotmail.com
Essays, Reviews and Interviews
We are always on the lookout for highly critical academic essays and reviews of poetry, or interviews with some of the best poets writing today. Essays may be up to 8,000 words long, in English Language and not previously published. As in poetry and graphics above, submit a biographical note and a photograph of yourself.
Send to sentinelpoetry@hotmail.com
POETIC WORKS ON HEALTH AND ILLNESS
The body as a text or network of texts - as a sign, a signified or a signifier, as a myth - articulated and performed by the self , the I, or by instinct, and read variously by the other, the I, the we, the subject, or the object, achieves complexity especially when set in illness and health narratives. The languages of the body in such contexts, as configured in cultural works, especially through a poetic insight, would be undoubtedly useful in trying to understand how health related to the vegetal, animal or human world is art and/or science, or how possible contaminations between science and art can transfer to scientific art, or artistic science by considering psychology and sociology as sciences of the behavior respectively of the single and of the many, religion and philosophy as sciences of the mind or of the metaphysical, medicine and biology as manifest sciences of the body.
Poetic works that feature, interrogate, or probe health/illness representations in culture and society are hereby invited for publication on the Poets’ Corner. The editors, Obododimma Oha and Anny Ballardini, are particularly interested in artwork that presents illness and health in unusual but inspiring modes with the aim of shedding light on the nature of both. Unusual and intuitive readings should become tools to dismantle the spiraling maelstrom of malady or to forge a consciousness to enlighten the human being in the acceptance of what is if and whenever change or improvement is impossible. Poetry should rise to the height of medical science as an assistant, an advisor, or as the healer, be it at a physical or metaphysical level.
Welcome are works that seek to present poetic languages of the mentally challenged, the aphasic, the traumatized, the schizophrenic, as well as any kind of disease, be it infectious like AIDS, or “generational” like cancer, be it connected with what is usually seen as a seasonal minor collapse like viral influenza, or with accidents that change the lives of the victims.
The present contextualization could broaden to include the idea of a nation as a single community, a constitutional body characterized by illnesses or healthy states. It could also visualize, and still not be limited to, various economic systems with their dangerous trends/breaths sweeping away hopes or bringing in new ambitious projects, be them healthy or ill. The same history of art or literary criticism could be reviewed under the lens of variables that determine the health or the illness of the category.
Visual artwork, poems, poetic fiction, poetic nonfiction, and photographs to be submitted for consideration should go beyond the traditional mimetic to narrate distortions, out-of-the-body experiences, virtual thrills and/or gratuitous hallucinations.
Visual works and photographs are to be saved in JPEG format; texts, which should not have rigid formatting, in Word. All submissions should be emailed to the editors anny.ballardini@ gmail.com and obodooha@gmail. com by December 1, 2009 with "Health & Illness" in the Subject line.
THIRD TEXT SPECIAL ISSUE: BEYOND NEGRITUDE
GUEST EDITOR: Denis Ekpo
Call for papers
Senghor's Negritude sought to regenerate the hitherto disqualified races and cultures of Africa and to create symbiotic relations among the races and cultures of the world. It also sought to create new models of egalitarian human society for a world rid of exploitative neo-colonial systems. However, the over-privileging of racialist, ethno-artistic contents seemed to have suppressed many of Negritude's rich socio-political insights. Today Negritude is seen generally as a failed ideology. But in this era of obfuscating theorems of the postcolonial condition, Africa and the world at large stand to gain by not only re-examining the historicist failure of Negritude as a simpler and saner discourse of postcolonial reconstruction but also configuring the move beyond Negritude as a re-understanding of this failure and a search for creative remedies to it. Thinking Beyond Negritude could be approached from any of these rubrics.
We invite contributions from scholars all over the world who are interested in exploring any of the After-Negritude issues outlined above. Such contributions, not more than 5000 words in length, should be sent by E-mail attachment not later than 30 October 2009 to:
Guest Editor: Denis Ekpo: ekpo_d@yahoo. com
Cc'd to Richard Dyer at Third Text: Thirdtext@btinterne t.com
DEBATING AFRICAN LITERATURE
The debate on African literature – its history and nature – is as old as the term “African literature” (or “African literatures”) itself. Some of the issues that have been raised in this debate (or series of debates) include the validity of the term, language use, theoretical frameworks and generic distinctions, connections (and disconnections) between the oral and the written, gender relations and representations, relationship with other literatures and cultures (including the African Diaspora), national and international contexts of writing and interpretation, the influence of regional geopolitical configurations and inter/regional markets, race and class, the politics and influence of prizes and publishing, technology and audience. The true scope of this debate extends beyond the compartmentalizatio n of African literature and encompasses both sub-Saharan African literature and North African literature, both black and white African writers.
This debate has occasioned some of the most provocative and considered works of literary criticism in the history of modern literature.
Debating African Literature seeks to gather or reference some of those canonical debates. Even more important, it aims at provoking new, enriching ones. It has three main objectives:
– to encourage the examination or re-examination of major issues related to African literature and its Diaspora;
– to critically examine and further contextualize (or bridge) some of the divides in African literature ;
– to nourish a continuing debate on some of the core issues that define or sustain literature.
Debating African Literature is in honor of Michael J. C. Echeruo, William Safire Professor in Modern Letters, Department of English and Textual Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. The project is a parting salute to one of the most visionary minds ever to debate and illuminate African literature as he prepares to retire from the academy after nearly 50 years as a distinguished professor of literary theory, African, English, and African Diaspora literatures.
Scholars are invited to submit engaging articles on any aspect of African and African Diaspora literatures, especially those mentioned above. The deadline for the receipt of articles (including abstracts) is February 28, 2010. Please send an electronic copy of your article in MLA format as an email attachment (Microsoft Word or PDF) to Maik Nwosu at mnwosu@du.edu and Obiwu at obiwu1@gmail. com. Debating African Literature will be published by a major academic publisher.
About the editors Maik Nwosu is an assistant professor of African and world literature at the University of Denver, Colorado. Obiwu is the director of the Writing Center at Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio.
