Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:07:38 -0500
Subject: Water Anthology



Call for Submissions:



We are looking for a diverse, international cross-section of women writers
for a global anthology on the politics of water. Confluence: A Global
Anthology of Women's Voices on the Politics of Water will combine poetry,
short fiction, testimonial accounts, and essays on how water crosses various
political boundaries be they national, racial, ethnic, class, or gender.
This anthology is a response to the growing concern over the role of water
in our increasingly fragile environment, a concern that is sure to become
more anxiety prone in the 21st Century as debates over modernization and
development become more acrid. It will incorporate a range of issues such as
droughts and floods, waste management, dams and irrigation, water pollution,
water as a national or racial barrier, and water as a feminine space over
which the masculine process of industrialization claims agency.  The work
will address water as myth, metaphor, and material reality.


Guidelines for creative writing: Poetry submissions should not exceed 5
pages. Flash fiction should be between100-500 words and short fiction and
memoirs between 2000-3000 words.

Submit to: Paola Corso, 133 8th Avenue #4E, Brooklyn, NY 11215
paola_corso-AT-hotmail.com

Guidelines for essays: Essays should not exceed 5,000 words.
        
Submit to: Dr. Nandita Ghosh, 40-35 67h Street, #55, Woodside, NY 11377
nan_dita-AT-excite.com


DEADLINE: March 10, 2004


Coeditors:
Paola Corso is a 2003 New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow. Her
poetry and fiction are set in her native Pittsburgh river town and explore
the environmental impact of industrialization from a working-class
perspective. She and Dr. Anna Kay France co-edited the book, International
Women Playwrights. She currently teaches a prose workshop at Fordham
University. 

Nandita Ghosh is an assistant professor at Farleigh Dickinson University
where she teaches courses on literature, culture, and the environment. She
was involved in mobilizing active support in the US against the construction
of the Maheshwar dam on the River Narmada and has networked with members of
the Narmada Bachao Andolan (a grassroots movement in India protesting the
environmental damage and human displacement caused by damming the River
Narmada), as well as various human rights and environmental groups based in
the US.  


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