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Call for Submissions
Junta: Avant-Garde Latino/a Writing
Latino/a writers have historically embraced experimentation of form and craft as a way to explore their culture. Even so, much of Latino/a writing, published in the United States, has been limited to particular approaches to subject and style that havebeen validated by mainstream publishers. Rarely, if ever, does the writing express the immense diversityof aesthetics practiced by artists in the Latino/acommunity. In addition, the reality of a U.S. Latino/a Avant-Garde is virtually non-existent in contemporary literary discourse about "Latino/a Art" as well as across the literary spectrum. Sunstone Press, an independent publisher in Santa Fe, NM is producing an anthology that will be edited by poet Gabriel Gomez. The anthology will feature Avant-Garde poetry and poetics by contemporaryLatino/a writers. The tentative publication date is fall 2007.The anthology will first appear at a conference in Santa Fe, NM, scheduled for October 2007, and will be available nationwide thereafter.
Caveat Emptor:
It is not the intention, with this anthology, to categorize and codify certain Latino/a writers as “Avant-Garde” nor to establish any notion of a preferred aesthetic. The objective is to interrogate the very terms "Avant-Garde" and "Latino/a experience" as intersecting locations of poetic practice so as to bring forth work that bears witness to our varying aesthetics as artists and thinkers. The ultimate goal is to encourage both readers and publishers to recognize the breadth of Latino/a writing and thus deepen the public's understanding of the Latino/a experience.
Guidelines:
Please submit up to five poems. Manuscripts should not exceed 15 pages. Include a cover page with your name and contact information as well as the titles of your poems. Your name should not appear on the poems themselves.Writers are asked to submit only electronic versions of the poems. Send as MS Word attachments only. Both MAC and PC platforms are acceptable. Submit work to junta.anthology@yahoo.com. Writers whose work is accepted for the anthology will be asked to write a poetics statement no longer than 750 words.
Deadline:
All manuscripts submitted by January 10, 2007 will be considered. Contributors will receive two copies ofthe book upon publication.
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