Sicily (deadline: June 01, 2010)


  Perhaps no other island conjures up such vivid images as the ancient island of Sicily. What comes to mind? Romantic idyll or land of feuding rivalries? The mafia? An island apart from mainstream Italian culture? What is your Sicily? Does every culture have its own Sicily — its own outsiders living within its midst? Explode the stereotypes and delve into a modern reality of what Sicily represents for you as a writer. Descant is requesting submissions of unpublished fiction, poetry, essays, photography and previously unpublished works of English translation from the Sicilian.

– Guest editors, Michelle Alfano and Venera Fazio

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