International Authors and the editors of Emanations are happy to announce a Call
for Submissions:
Emanations 11
Emanations is an anthology
series featuring fiction, poetry, and essays. The emphasis is on alternative
narrative structures, new epistemologies, peculiar settings, esoteric themes,
sharp breaks from reality, ecstatic revelations, and vivid and abundant
hallucinations.
The
editors are interested in literary material.
We seek fiction and poetry that present unworldly ways of seeing, feeling, and
describing. Recognizable genres—science fiction, fantasy, horror, political
dystopia, satire, mystery, local color, romance, realism, surrealism, and
postmodernism—are fine, but the chief idea is to make something new,
and along these lines the illusion of something new can be just as
important.
In
Emanations 11 we seek to emphasize
graphics and visual pieces. We are especially interested in asemic writing and
images, visual poetry, formalist experiments in prose, bricolage, new
experiments in graphic representation, and visual narratives. Artists are
invited to prepare “compressed” portfolios (5-20 images) with an “artist's
statement.” Please bear in mind that the production will be in black and white.
If an image, story or poem makes someone say, “Yes, it
is good, but what is it?” then it is right for Emanations.
Essays
should be exuberant, daring, and free of pedantry. Accounts of unusual travels
are especially welcome. Length is a consideration in making publication
decisions, but in keeping with the spirit of the project contributors should
consider length to be “open.”
Our
editorial vision is evolving. Contributors should see themselves as actively
shaping the “vision” of Emanations.
Email files with brief cover note to:
iasubmissions@hotmail.com
The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2024
Contributors
should place their name in the subject heading, and they should include their
name and contact information in the submitted file.
Emanations is a not-for-profit literary
project and contributors cannot be compensated at this time. All
proceeds from the sale of Emanations will
support the efforts of International Authors to publish new voices from around
the world. Contributors receive a copy upon publication. Only one
complimentary copy will be sent to each contributor; the fortunes of the
mail, particularly international mail, are beyond the control of International
Authors.
The
project is a collaborative effort, and as we share ideas the “vision”
transforms, evolves, and grows. When we write stories and poems we hope to
bring to bear the entire battery of modern and postmodern literary devices.
More simply: we like good, strong writing. Our essays are incisive, precise,
keen, challenging, and driven by the writer’s desire to advance an intelligent
audience’s understanding of exotic and important subjects. In addition to
travel writing, memoirs reflecting upon professional experiences—law, medicine,
education, architecture, filmmaking—are very welcome.
The Fine Print:
1 Submit files as
follows: Microsoft Word, Times New Roman size #11. Set Tabs for .2” and set
spacing at 15. Remove extra lines between paragraphs. Use smart quotes. This
will help reduce the workload as the editors format the book for publication
2 No simultaneous
submissions (contributors should get fairly quick feedback anyway, especially
if their submission meets our needs). Material that is obviously pulled from a
file and has nothing to do with the goals of the anthology won’t get any
feedback beyond the initial acknowledgement.
3 Word count/line
count? See details above. We’re flexible, but contributors should be sensible
when considering what they send in. A novella? Well, maybe, and so on... Rules
of thumb: a) Stories: very short to 20-30 pages. b) Poems: send in 5-10 pages.
c) Essays: 5-10-30 pages.
4 Published as
hard copy only—Emanations will be
available on Amazon. Participants who make a substantial contribution of
material, editorial work, or art will get a copy. It can take some time to get
copies to contributors outside of North America. In the case of our first
anthology, for example, it took forty-five days to get a copy to a contributor
in to Nepal. As described above, only one copy will be sent to each
contributor; the fate of the mail, particularly international mail, is beyond
the control of International Authors.
5 International
Authors is a consortium, and as such every contributor is a “member” of our
community, and contributors are encouraged to help promote the anthology by
sending review copies to newspapers, journals and relevant Web sites.
6 Copyright “reverts”
to contributors upon publication. That is, after an accepted piece appears
in Emanations, the contributor
can publish their piece elsewhere. Contributors should understand that Emanations could remain for sale on
Amazon indefinitely. All materials appearing in Emanations are under the exclusive copyright of the
contributing writers and artists.
7 Note to poets: Please
do not send poems as individual
files. All poetry submissions should be sent as a SINGLE Mircosoft Word file
formatted in Times New Roman, size 11. Please submit three to ten pages.
8 Please DO NOT submit AI writing or art.
Contributors submitting work to Emanations agree to these points.
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