Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 07:42:15 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Southeast Asian American Anthology/posting  (fwd)


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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:59:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Cheng Chua <cheng_chua-AT-csufresno.edu>
Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
To: postcolonial-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Cc: Cihlar-AT-MTN.Org
Subject: Southeast Asian American Anthology/posting 

21 Jan 1998

I would be very grateful if you would post the attached Call for
Submissions on the Postcolonial Listserv. Thank you.
C. Lok Chua
chengc-AT-csufresno.edu
> 
> > CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A SOUTHEAST ASIAN AMERICAN ANTHOLOGY
> > 
> > NEW RIVERS PRESS
> > 420 North 5th Street / Suite 910 / Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401
> > 612-339-7114  Fax: 612-339-9047  www.mtn.org/newrivpr
> > 
> > Although the Southeast Asian American community has a long history and a rapidly growing population, there are few books that feature the poetry,
> > fiction, and creative nonfiction of the established and emerging authors of this community.
> >  We are soliciting fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry created by Southeast Asian Americans, for a literary anthology of previously unpublished
> > work.  By Southeast Asian Americans we mean residents of the United States with Bruneian, Burmese (Myanmar), Cambodian, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian,
> > Laotian, Malaysian, Singaporean, Thai, or Vietnamese heritage, including recent immigrants as well as second, third, fourth, etc., generation writers.
> > Subject matter is not limited.  The work may, for instance, explore such ideas as community, memory, locations, genders, the subject of the artist and
> > language—and may do so in creative writing that celebrates, records, preserves, explores, questions, problematizes, invents, and defines—and would do so
> > for an audience who may be both familiar and unfamiliar with Southeast Asian Americans.
> > 
> > Guidelines
> >  • All submissions must be typed / wordprocessed, double-spaced, on 8 1/2 x 11” paper, on one side of the sheet.  Submit no more than ten pages for
> > poetry, thirty for prose.
> >  • Submit three copies (original plus two photocopies) of each piece.
> >  • We will not be able to return your work, so please keep another copy for yourself.
> >  • Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope (SASE) for notification of results.
> >  • Author's name, address, and phone number must appear at the top of the first page, and author's name and page number should appear on each following
> > page.
> >  • Include a brief resume (no more than two pages) with mention of author’s Southeast Asian heritage.
> >  • Authors should keep us informed of any address changes.
> >  • Only previously unpublished work will be considered.
> > 
> > Send submissions postmarked by September 16, 1998, to
> > New Rivers Press
> > Jim Cihlar, Managing Editor
> > 420 North Fifth Street, Suite 910
> > Minneapolis, MN  55401
> > 
> > The co-editors for this anthology are
> > Shirley Lim
> > Department of English
> > University of California—Santa Barbara
> > Santa Barbara, CA  93106
> > 
> > Cheng Lok Chua
> > English Department, M.S. #98
> > California State University, Fresno
> > 5245 North Backer Avenue
> > Fresno, CA  93740-8001
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 



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