Drunken Boat, an online journal of art and literature, is looking for short shorts, very short or flash fiction pieces that meditate on the often paradoxical relationship between freedom and belonging for Issue 12. Writers might, for example, consider how consumer culture, dislocation or displacement, migration, interpersonal relationships, familial pulls, cultural and ethnic identification limits or expands ones notions of belonging and home.
1000 word maximum. Deadline is May 15, 2010.
To submit, go to the submissions page on the web site.
Questions? E-mail: editor @ drunkenboat dot com
Also, check out current Issue 11, which features a folio, Life in a Time of Contraction, a socially-conscious collection of nonfiction and visual arts, as well as a folio of sound art.