Call for Submissions:
The International City of Refuge Network’s literary webzine invites
submissions for the Spring and Summer Issues of BABEL (www.icorn.org).
Deadline: January 20 & May 20, 2007
We are inviting submissions of essays, poetry and short stories on the
themes of Identity (Nationality, Citizenship etc.) and Cross Cultural
experiences. We are also looking for interviews and collaborative works for
our dialogue project (see below).
Our BABEL Voices section needs poetry, short stories and creative essays in
two languages (the original language and a translation). Submissions with
accompanying Mp3 files of readings in the original language are especially
welcomed.
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BABEL In Dialogue
PEN Canada has published two chapbooks, each bringing together two writers
from differing backgrounds in a dialogue about writing and literature, and
the Winter issue of BABEL (www.icorn.org <http://www.icorn.org/> ) features
an excerpt of one: Listen to the Reed. We are grateful to Karen Connelly,
Fereshteh Molavi and PEN Canada for the permission for its inclusion.
We would very much like to continue bringing writers together in the spirit
if the PEN Canada project. The discussions or email exchanges will be
published in BABEL’s In Dialogue section four times a year. Our aim is to
eventually collect these dialogues for a print anthology.
BABEL’s editors are currently working to introduce the webzine for school
use in the UK and internationally, and we will be cooperating with NANCA
(the North American Network of Cities of Asylum) and their print magazine in
the future. In our first 4 months online we have averaged between 2,000 and
3,000 hits a month—without the benefit of advertising nor active promotion
for the website. We expect the webzine to be a visible portal for quality
literature.
We hope that you will consider participating in this project, and especially
welcome exiled and expatriate writers. Each dialogue will run between 2500
and 4000 words. If you are interested please send a short CV and bio to
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BABEL can provide a partner and kick-off question if desired; otherwise,
we’re excited to see what everyone is talking about.
For more information please see About the Webzine
http://www.icorn.org/sections.php?var=12
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Ren Katherine Powell
ICORN Information Coordinator
Contributing Editor ICORN Website/BABEL Webzine
Sølvberget KF, Box 310, 4002 Stavanger
(+47) 45 27 57 62 or (+47) 51 50 79 17
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