EMU Creative Writing Blog

The Green Lantern Press is currently seeking high quality submissions from female authors. Since 2006, The Green Lantern Press has published 7 books in the slow media style. 4 of these have been solo-manuscripts with singular authors. These books were chosen on their merits and on their fit with the mission of the Press. Without intention, all 4 of the solo projects have been male. The remaining three included both men and women. To remedy this imbalance, The Green Lantern Press is actively pursuing fiction from emerging female authors.

The submissions should be unpublished works between 20,000—80,000 words, and be submitted in compliance with the following deadlines: September 1st, 2008 for consideration for June, 2009 publication; January 1st 2009 for consideration for end of 2009 publication; and September 1st 2009 for 2010 publication.

Submissions are also being accepted for the Green Lantern Press blog (http://greenlanternpress.wordpress.com/).

Send manuscripts to greenlanternpress@gmail.com as a .doc, .rtf or .pdf file, along with your contact information and a brief bio; or send submissions in tangible form to:

THE GREEN LANTERN PRESS
1511 Milwaukee Ave., 2nd Floor
Chicago IL 60622

Green Lantern Press advises familiarizing yourself with their website (http://www.press.thegreenlantern.org/) and previous publications before submitting.

Pacific Cinémathèque and curator Heather Haley are seeking videopoem submissions from around the world for the annual Visible Verse screening and performance poetry celebration, Nov. 6, 2008. Visible Verse is North America’s sustaining venue for the presentation of new and artistically significant videopoetry.

 Deadline is September 1, 2008.

 Official guidelines:

*Visible Verse seeks videopoems, with a 15 minutes maximum duration.

*Either official language of Canada is acceptable, though if the video is in French, an English-dubbed or-subtitled version is required for consideration. Videos may originate in any part of the world, however.

*Pieces will be judged on true literary merit. The ideal videopoem is a wedding of word and image, the voice seen as well as heard.

*Please, do not send documentaries, as they are outside the featured genre.

*Videopoem producers should provide a brief bio, full name, and contact information in a cover letter. There is no official application form nor entry fee.

*Send, at your own risk, videopoems and poetry films/preview copies (which cannot be returned) in DVD format to: VISIBLE VERSE c/o Pacific Cinémathèque, 200–1131
Howe Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2L7, Canada. Selected artists will be notified by 1 October, 2008 and receive a screening fee.

For more information contact Heather Haley, hshaley @ emspace.com

Vancouver’s Pacific Cinémathèque Pacifique, a not-for-profit society dedicated to the understanding of film and moving images.
http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca

The final July reading at Crazy Wisdom bookstore in Ann Arbor (114 S. Main St.) takes place tonight, Wednesday, July 16, at 7:30 pm.  In addition to EMU readers, there will also be readings from visiting writers Kim Chinquee and Aaron Burch.  Come on out and support EMU and the Creative Writing program — and get the chance to hear some fantastic creative work!

Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tea Room in Ann Arbor (http://www.crazywisdom.net/) will host another reading by EMU students this Wednesday, July 2, at 7:30 pm.  Drop by the 2nd Floor of Crazy Wisdom (at 114 S. Main St. in A2) and listen to Brandon Potter, Brynne Barnes, Andrew Conant, Bill Barr, and Barry Graham.  If you would like to join in, bring a few selections with you and take a turn at the mic, or just bring yourself, find a comfy seat in the audience, and hear some great work from EMU’s grad students.

EARTH’S BODY: AN ECOPOETRY ANTHOLOGY

Coeditors Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street are soliciting submissions for an international anthology of ecopoetry.  Deadline is December 15, 2008.  They are looking for a wide array of submissions, including not only what might be called nature poetry, and not only poetry that focuses on environmental issues, but also experimental poetry–poetry that explores language in its relations with the other-than-human.  They welcome work by emerging as well as established poets.  Submissions may be serious, playful, in open or traditional forms, and — depending on space limitations – short poems and poems of several pages.   The anthology will include only living poets or poets who were alive as of July 2007, and will include only poems either written in English or already translated into English; for poems not written in English, both the original and the translation must be submitted, and if accepted, both will be published.  Previously published work will also be considered.

Send up to six poems to BOTH Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street, via either e-mail or snail mail.  If they come as e-mail text, make sure the spacing and lineation travel accurately.  NO ATTACHMENTS ACCEPTED.  Include a short bio and a cover letter, and an SASE for reply.

Ann Fisher-Wirth
English Department
Bondurant C-135
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
afwirth@olemiss.edu

Laura-Gray Street
English Department
2500 Rivermont
Randolph College
Lynchburg, VA 24503
lstreet@randolphcollege.edu

The Electronic Literature Organization is seeking submissions for the Electronic Literature Collection, volume 2. ELO invites the submission of literary works that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the computer. Works will be accepted from June 1 to September 30, 2008. Up to three works per author will be considered; previously published works will be considered.

Detailed submission requirements can be found here at the ELO web site (http://eliterature.org/).  Volume 1 is available to view online (http://collection.eliterature.org).  Volume 2, comprising approximately 50 works, will be available online and as a cross-platform DVD in a case appropriate for library processing, marking, and distribution. The contents of the Collection are offered under a Creative Commons license so that libraries and educational institutions will be allowed to duplicate and install works and individuals will be free to share the disc with others.

Teacher Workshop: A Neon Color Calls Me
July 30-July 31 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
This 2-day creative writing and arts institute for writers and teachers of writing features innovative ways to immerse ourselves in, and write about, visual art.

Topics include “entering” the frame, shaping a group response, finding the pulse in the painting, using opposition, moving from page to stage, and more.

Presenters include Dr. Terry Blackhawk, noted educator and winner of the John Ciardi Poetry Prize, and teaching artists and poets from Blackhawk’s InsideOut Literary Arts Project, a writers-in-schools program based in Detroit.

Workshop begins in the Lecture Hall. To register call InsideOut 313-965-5332. http://www.insideoutdetroit.org/

Supports English Language Arts and Visual Arts Standards
Member fee: $96; nonmember fee: $120
Pre-service teacher fee: $60

READING: PETER MARKUS AND KRISTIN PALM
Thursday, June 26 from 7pm

At MOCAD
4454 Woodward Ave Detroit MI, 48201
phone 313 832 6622

Peter Markus is the author of four books of fiction, the most recent of which is the novel Bob, or Man on Boat (Dzanc Books). He is also a guest editor of the forthcoming MOCAD journal Detroit: Stories.

Kristin Palm is the author of The Straits (Palm Press), her first full-length work featuring two long poems about Detroit. A Detroiter for many years, Kristin now lives in California.

BathHouse Vol 6.1 goes live today with great experimental work from John M. Bennett, Lily Robert-Foley, Francis Raven, Ander Monson, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Andy Frazee, and William Walsh.  A Spring/Summer issue, Vol 6.2, will follow in July!

Check it out at http://bhjournal.com/

 FYI, BathHouse is still accepting submissions. Tell your friends.

Drop by the Shaman Drum bookstore at 311-315 South State St. in Ann Arbor (http://www.shamandrum.com/) on Thursday, May 22, at 7pm to hear Barry Graham, Kevin Sampsell, Aaron Burch, and Matt Bell read some of their work.